Question

Silence is unnatural to man．He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness．In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else．Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence．If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）.He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蠟塑人像）.
The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito （蚊子）.But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing -with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.
【小題1】According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors_____.

A．in the hope of learning something new

B．in the hope of getting on well

C．a(chǎn)bout whatever they have prepared

D．a(chǎn)bout whatever they want to

【小題2】According to the author, people make conversation to______.

A．a(chǎn)chieve success in life

B．exchange ideas

C．overcome their fear of silence

D．prove their value

【小題3】What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A．To persuade people to stop making noises．

B．To explain why people keep talking．

C．To discuss why people like talking about weather．

D．To encourage people to join in conversations．

【小題4】By "the buzzing of a fly"(Para.1), the author means"_____".

A．the voice of a chatterbox

B．meaningless talk sound

C．a(chǎn) low whispering

D．the noise of an insect

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】B

解析試題分析：本文論述了人們司空見(jiàn)慣的一種交流方式――談話，人們不停的交談，自有其一定特殊意義。
由于人們害怕沉默，談話也是為了克服silence而導(dǎo)致的恐懼。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)依據(jù)第二段，表明與鄰居交流可以談任何想談的內(nèi)容，不必等到你有才wise thought開(kāi)口。本題易誤選B，而B說(shuō)明人們與鄰居交往有一定的目的性，故選D。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章開(kāi)始就表明了人類最害怕的是silence，即使談話也是為了克服silence而導(dǎo)致的恐懼，故選C。
【小題3】寫作意圖題。根據(jù)本題需要對(duì)文章三段加以綜合概括，尤其是第二段首句，表明作者寫本文的真實(shí)意圖是解釋人們?yōu)楹尾煌５膖alking.故選B。
【小題4】詞義推測(cè)題。根據(jù)依據(jù)日常知識(shí)，大多數(shù)talking沒(méi)有什么特別意義。故選B。
考點(diǎn)：人生百味類短文閱讀。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：寫作意圖題指作者在文中表達(dá)的意思，也就是寫作目的。只有掌握作者的寫作意圖， 我們才能了解文章的深層含義， 從而全面正確，深刻把握思想。作者的寫作意圖通常隱藏在字里行間。