Question

【題目】 The story I would like to tell happened about a year ago. I accepted a position in a company. John, who I knew, told me much about the job and took my curriculum vitae (簡歷) to his manager. I did not see him as a friend because at the time we did not take part in activities together outside of work, nor did our wives.

The first week was fine. Nothing was clearly strange with John at first until the second week, when our communication began to get a little strange. John began making conversations like "you would have had to pay an employment agency（職業(yè)介紹所）several hundred dollars for a job like this". I soon forgot his words till the next day when he made another similar conversation. Right then I started to really pay attention to what he meant. He acted as if I owed him money for helping me to get the job.

He began to get short with me and I had only been there for two weeks. He should train me in building our e-mail servers（服務(wù)器）. Instead, he went through the process so fast that even an experienced worker could hardly keep up. He would not slow down or check whether I was with him or not. If there was something wrong with a server, he would just deal it by himself and not stop to say anything like "you might want to remember this. " I was in a bad mood from then on.

By the third week I began to get tired of his condescension (傲慢). So I began to challenge him in a way that was only one to one. He would reply to a question of mine with a question or just make me repeat it, and then cut in on me. I began to hate him. Later I tried to avoid him as much as I could.

He stopped me one day and asked me what had happened. I told him he was very condescending. He asked me, “What can I do so that you will not feel like this way in the future?” I simply asked him to treat me with the same respect he would like to be treated with. He did it and we got along better slowly. I believed there was hope and finally we would become friends and now we are.

【1】Why didn’t the author refer to John as a friend at first?

A.They seldom spent free time together.B.They had only met for two weeks.

C.Their wives didn’t know each other.D.They had many disagreements on work.

【2】What did John most probably mean by saying the underlined sentence?

A.The company he and the author worked in was very good.

B.The writer was wise not to ask an employment agency for help.

C.He had helped the author get a job without a penny.

D.The writer didn’t give him several hundred dollars to express his gratitude.

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the third and fourth paragraphs?

A.John was an experienced and hard-working employee.

B.The writer was very slow in learning new things.

C.John hardly lent an ear to what the writer expressed.

D.The writer slowly got used to his work

【4】What's the writer's purpose of sharing his story?

A.To express his dislikes with John.

B.To show the importance of communication

C.To remind us what problems can happen at work.

D.To describe how to get on with your workmate.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

文章大意：講述了John免費(fèi)給我介紹工作，在工作中相處以及后期成為朋友的過程。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù) I did not see him as a friend because at the time we did not take part in activities together outside of work, nor did our wives. ，他們下班時間沒有聚會。故選A。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。句意：“你將不得不支付職業(yè)介紹所(職業(yè)介紹所)數(shù)百美元這樣的工作”及“He acted as if I owed him money for helping me to get the job. ”可知給作者提供了免費(fèi)的工作，故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Instead, he went through the process so fast that even an experienced worker could hardly keep up. He would not slow down or check whether I was with him or not. 可知John完成這個過程的速度非�？�，一個有經(jīng)驗的工人也很難跟上。不幫助我，也不聽我的意見，故選C。

【4】推理判斷題。通讀全文可知，作者在朋友的幫助下，輕松地找到一份工作，但是此后朋友的表現(xiàn)讓作者很是不解，作者也慢慢疏遠(yuǎn)他，最后通過兩個人的溝通交流，這才消除了誤會，又成了好朋友，這件事情告訴我們?nèi)伺c人之間的及時溝通是多么重要�。�故選B。

本文是通過幫忙找工作，在工作中相處，最后成為朋友的過程。本文包含細(xì)節(jié)理解題，推理判斷題，主旨大意題。主旨大意題。主旨大意題是根據(jù)全文或者第一段或最后一段來找出概括全文的內(nèi)容。本文中的主旨是根據(jù)全文的內(nèi)容來理解的，從作者剛開始和John不熟悉，到后面說出問題，溝通改正后，兩人慢慢成為朋友。所以得出答案溝通的重要性。