Решить задачу Read an extract from the story A Slight Inconvenience. For questions 1-7, choose the correct answer (a, b, c or d). The other day I took my younger children to a Burger King for lunch, and there was a line of about a dozen cars at the drive-through window. Now a drive-through window is not, despite its promising name, a window you drive through, but a window you drive up to and collect your food from, having placed your order over a speakerphone along the way. The idea is to provide quick takeaway food for those in a hurry. We parked, went in, ordered and ate, and came out again all in about ten minutes. As we departed, I noticed that a white pickup truck that had been last in the queue when we arrived was still four or five cars back from collecting its food. It would have been much quicker if the driver had parked like us and gone in and got his food himself, but he would never have thought that way because the drive-through window is supposed to be speedier and more convenient. You see my point, of course. Americans have become so attached to the idea of convenience that they will put up with almost any inconvenience to achieve it. It's crazy, I know, but there you are. The things that are supposed to speed up and simplify our lives more often than not actually have the opposite effect, and this set me to thinking why this should be. Americans have always had a strange devotion to the idea of assisted ease. It is an interesting fact that nearly all the everyday inventions that take the struggle out of life - escalators, automatic doors, passenger lifts, refrigerators, washing machines, frozen food, fast food - were invented in America, or at least first widely embraced here. Americans grew so used to a steady stream of labour-saving advances, in fact, that by the 1960s they had come to expect machines to do pretty much everything for them. Like most patriotic Americans, my father was forever buying gizmos that proved to be disastrous - clothes steamers that failed to take the wrinkles out of suits but had wallpaper falling off the walls in whole sheets, an electric pencil sharpener that could consume an entire pencil in less than a second, and much more.But all of this was nothing compared with the situation today. Americans are now surrounded with items that do things for them to an almost absurd degree - automatic cat food dispensers, electric juicers, refrigerators that make their own ice cubes, automatic car windows. People are so addicted to convenience that they have become trapped in a vicious circle: the more labour-saving appliances they buy, the harder they need to work; the harder they work, the more labour-saving appliances they feel they need. Our house in New Hampshire came full of equipment installed by earlier owners, all of it designed to make life that little bit easier. Up to a point, few actually do, but most are just kind of wondrously useless. One of our rooms, for instance, came equipped with automatic curtains. You flick a switch on the wall and four pairs of curtains effortlessly open or close. That, at any rate, is the ídea. In practice what happens is that one opens, one closes, one opens and closes repeatedly, and one does nothing at all for five minutes and then starts to emit smoke. We haven't gone anywhere near them since the first week. You see my point again. Automatic curtains and garage doors, electric food dispensers and revolving tie racks only seem to make life easier. In fact, all they do is add expense and complication to your existence. 1 The drive-through window is supposed to ... a provide an easier access to Burger King. b make ordering food more comfortable. c speed up service in the restaurant. d help people avoid queues in a drive-through restaurant. 2 If the author's family had joined the queue to the drive-through window ..› a it would have taken them longer. b they would have got their food in a more convenient way. c they would have spent 10 minutes less. d they would have been more satisfied. 3 The author claims (paragraphs 3 and 4) that Americans ...