2019高考英语一轮优编选题 Unit 2 The Olympic Games（含解析）新人教版必修2

Unit 2 The Olympic Games一、阅读理解。One cold day last November, my wife and I came home from work to a si

Unit 2The Olympic Games 一、阅读理解。 One cold day last November, my wife and Icame home from work to asick young daughter and we decided to stay at home for the night. Problem was, we had two tickets to see Miranda July, the performance artist, being interviewed at the Herbst Theatre. We decided to sell them online for ＄50. One hour before the event, aguy named Peter called me and said he wanted to buy the tickets. Since the time was limited, Itold Peter to pay me the next day. Peter seemed touched and we said afond goodbye. However, amonth later, Peter still didn’t pay me back. Afew more weeks passed. Another month. There’d been one e-mail promising to mail the check, then silence. Maybe he was having ahard time, Ithought. But truth was, Peter seemed to be having apretty normal time. According to the pictures and messages on his Facebook, he had been playing golf, dancing happily with his friends, and traveling on aboat. But he just refused to answer my calls, or reply to my e-mails or messages. So Itried reaching him with my wife’s phone one night. And he didn’t pick up when Icalled,but texted right back, playfully wondering who might be calling him. “You should go to his office,”my wife said, “He would have to give you the money if all his coworkers were watching.” But Ididn’t want to bee adebt collector. My efforts to reach Peter over these months had been light and Iwanted to keep it that way. My initial exchange with Peter had been just two regular people agreeing to handle things humanly. There was arare niceness in that, and Istill wanted to keep that balloon in the air, however disappointing it was starting to look. Iwanted to believe we could still trust each other. 1.For what reason did the author and his wife decide to sell the ticket?