Question

【題目】閱讀下面短文, 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容完成句子。

I grew up in the 1960s. I was taught from an early age to send a handwritten thank-you note showing gratitude for kindness. My mother used to buy me a box of stationery（信紙）and teach me the value of saying “thank you”. She turned out to be right.

Amit Kumar is a professor at the University of Texas. He said that people liked getting thank-you notes. However, most of us underestimate（低估）the positive feelings they will bring. He asked volunteers how they felt after they received thank-you notes. Many said they were “extremely happy.”

Dr Kumar found that it took most volunteers less than five minutes to write the thank-you notes. Just five minutes to make another person feel “extremely happy”! Yet, in reality, the idea of getting an actual pen, writing an actual note, finding a stamp and a mailbox, never seems to come to mind. We usually do what is convenient for us—a quick text or an email.

It’s easy to say “I’m busy,” but even very busy businessmen find time to write thank-you notes. Take Doug Conant for example. When he became CEO of Campbell’s Soup, the company had lost half of its market value. It was bad for morale（士氣）. He started fixing that by writing to every employee. In his ten years as Campbell’s CEO, Conant wrote over 30,000 notes in all. Not surprisingly, the company turned around.

While people always like getting thank-you notes, sending the note in time is also important. The late（已故的）Princess Diana（戴安娜王妃）was known to write a note as soon as she returned home from an event and have it posted right away.

Professor Kumar’s experiment, Doug Conant and Princess Diana prove my mother’s instruction that an expression of kindness in this fast-paced world still works. Thanks, Mom.

【1】The writer’s mother used to buy him a box of stationery and teach him _________.

【2】According to Professor Kumar’s experiment, people feel _________.

【3】The underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably means “ _________” in Chinese.

【4】While people always like getting thank-you notes, sending the note in time is _________.

【5】The title of passage is “ _________”.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】the value of saying “thank you”

【2】extremely happy

【3】好轉(zhuǎn)、扭轉(zhuǎn)、有起色

【4】important

【5】The Value of a Thank-you Note

【解析】

文章從作者回憶小時候母親教他表達(dá)感謝的重要性著手，通過Kumar教授的實驗、Doug Conant和戴安娜王妃的故事告訴我們：不要以忙為借口，在如今快節(jié)奏的世界里，善意的表達(dá)仍然會起作用。

【1】根據(jù)第一段中“My mother used to buy me a box of stationery（信紙）and teach me the value of saying ‘thank you’.”可知作者的母親過去常常給他買信紙，教他說“謝謝你”的重要性，故填the value of saying “thank you”。

【2】根據(jù)第二段中“He asked volunteers how they felt after they received thank-you notes. Many said they were ‘extremely happy.’”可知Kumar教授詢問志愿者們收到感謝信后的感覺如何，許多人都說非常開心，故填extremely happy。

【3】文章第四段主要講Doug Conant通過給每個員工寫感謝信的方式使公司重振士氣，步入正軌，向好的方面發(fā)展；再結(jié)合關(guān)鍵詞“Not surprisingly”可知Conant的做法不出所料，公司情況好轉(zhuǎn)，所以此處turn around的意思是好轉(zhuǎn)，故填好轉(zhuǎn)或扭轉(zhuǎn)或有起色。

【4】根據(jù)第五段第一句話“While people always like getting thank-you notes, sending the note in time is also important.”可知人們總是喜歡收到感謝信，其實及時送出信也很重要，故填important。

【5】文章從作者回憶小時候母親教他表達(dá)感謝的重要性著手，通過Kumar教授的實驗、Doug Conant和戴安娜王妃的故事證明了時至今日，感謝信仍然有積極的作用和影響。作者受益匪淺，在文章最后還表達(dá)了對母親的感謝，所以文章都是圍繞“感謝信的價值”展開的，故標(biāo)題可以用The Value of a Thank-you Note。

任務(wù)型閱讀做題步驟和技巧：

1、明確閱讀任務(wù)

首先要先閱讀所給的任務(wù)，明確任務(wù)是什么，再帶著任務(wù)去閱讀，這樣才能做到心中有數(shù)，有針對性地去找，提高準(zhǔn)確率。

2、讀全文，了解大意

明確任務(wù)后，要迅速閱讀全文來了解文章主要內(nèi)容。在材料后的問題設(shè)置中，經(jīng)常有對文章大意或者歸納標(biāo)題的考查。對于這類題目，需要全篇考慮，通過尋找主題句或高頻詞來完成；主題句往往出現(xiàn)在第一段或者最后一段的可能性較大。例如小題5，文章在第一段中“My mother used to buy me a box of stationery（信紙）and teach me the value of saying ‘thank you’. She turned out to be right.”可知小時候母親教作者表達(dá)感謝的重要性，作者現(xiàn)在仍受益匪淺。后來又通過Kumar教授的實驗、Doug Conant和戴安娜王妃的故事證明了時至今日，感謝信仍然有積極的作用和影響。文章都是圍繞“感謝信的價值”展開的，所以標(biāo)題可以用The Value of a Thank-you Note。

3、再次閱讀，逐題突破

第一遍泛讀之后，對后面的問題，已經(jīng)有所了解，然后就可以用跳讀的方式來尋找答案。細(xì)節(jié)題直接根據(jù)關(guān)鍵詞回到原文找到對應(yīng)內(nèi)容，填寫答案；翻譯題則回到原文，結(jié)合語境和上下文的意思，恰當(dāng)理解并作答。

4、通讀全文，仔細(xì)檢查

在完成所有任務(wù)后，還應(yīng)結(jié)合題目再把全文通讀一遍，認(rèn)真核實答案，同時必須檢查以下幾點：一是能簡略回答，盡量簡略回答；有些題目如果有字?jǐn)?shù)限制，注意不要多寫。二句子開頭首字母要大寫；標(biāo)點符號要規(guī)范；單詞拼寫要正確無誤，書寫要認(rèn)真。三要對照題目，對句子的人稱、時態(tài)、主謂搭配等方面進(jìn)行核對。