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【題目】Maybe you have seen this in schools: Some students study nearly all the time but they just pass their exams, while some others may spend much【1】time on their books but do much better in exams. How could this happen? People used to think that hard work is the only way to success. But now they understand that smart work can make them successful, too.

Hard workers don’t【2】working for long hours, while smart workers always think of several different answers to these questions. “Why should I suffer this?” “Isn’t there a better way to do this?” Thanks to these people, we can use computers instead of the abacus now.【3】in every field is the direct result of “try to find a better way” by smart workers. There was a large soap factory in Japan. Once it received an unusual letter from someone who【4】that there was no soap in the soapbox he bought.

How could empty soapbox go out of the factory? The engineers checked the producing and packing. The producing was fine, but in about one in ten thousand cases, the packing machines let an empty soapbox go. There was no need to spend a lot of money repairing the machine for such a small problem. The engineer soon worked out a【5】. He put a large X-ray (X射線) machine and two large computers to find out the empty soapbox.【6】teaching the workers how to use it, he sat down in his seat, exhausted.

“Sir, we could have solved the problems in a much simpler and cheaper way.” a worker said.

“Really? How?” “We can put a huge fan near the packing machine. The wind coming from the fan will blow away the empty boxes and leave the other【7】with soap. There would be no need for an X-ray machine, two computers, and operating by workers.”

See, this is smart work. In order to succeed, we should not only learn from the engineers’ hard work, but also think smart like the workers.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】less

【2】mind

【3】Progress

【4】complained

【5】solution

【6】After

【7】ones

【解析】試題分析：這篇短文主要通過日本一個(gè)生產(chǎn)個(gè)人運(yùn)用聰明才智解決生產(chǎn)中遇到的難題的事例，說明努力并非成功的唯一途徑，智慧同樣可以起到事半功倍的效果。

【1】句意：然而其他一些在書本上花費(fèi)時(shí)間更少但在考試中做的更好。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母，此空應(yīng)是 less。

【2】句意：努力工作的工人不介意長時(shí)間的工作。根據(jù)句意及首字母提示“介意”是 mind。

【3】句意：每個(gè)領(lǐng)域的進(jìn)步都是由聰明的工人的試圖找到更好的辦法的直接結(jié)果。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母提示此空應(yīng)是Progress。

【4】句意：一次他收到了來自某個(gè)人的不同尋常的信，他抱怨說在他買的肥皂盒里沒有肥皂。根據(jù)句意及首字母提示此空應(yīng)填complained。

【5】句意：這位工程師很快想出了一個(gè)解決方案。根據(jù)句意及首字母提示“方案”是solution。

【6】句意：在教給了工人們怎樣使用它之后，他坐在座位上，精疲力盡。根據(jù)句意及首字母提示“在……之后”應(yīng)是After。

【7】句意： 來自風(fēng)扇的風(fēng)會吹走空盒子并留下有肥皂盒子。根據(jù)句意此空是指代盒子，根據(jù)首字母應(yīng)用ones。