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【題目】 Charles Wang has been to e mail hell, and returned to tell the tale. His journey there began innocently enough when, as chairman of Computer Associates International, a software company, he first heard how quickly his employees welcomed their new electronic mail system. They were sending messages to one another like crazy. “I said, ‘Let’s check into how people are using it.’” But instead of a pleasant e mail culture, what had developed was a behavioral nightmare. “It was a disaster,” he says. “My managers were getting 200 to 300 e mails a day each. People were so fond of it that they weren’t talking to each other. They were hibernating, e mailing people in the next room. They were abusing it.” In just a few years, Wang’s high-tech communications system had gone crazy.

To stop that, Wang short circuited the system, taking the astonishing step—considering what his $3.9 billion company does for a living—of banning all e mails from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. These hours are now observed as a sort of electronic quiet time. Says Wang: “It worked wonderfully. People are walking the corridors again talking to other people. ”

Almost everyone agrees that e mail is a wonderful invention. It is a convenient, informal medium for conveying messages that well meets human needs. E mail is perhaps the ideal means by which one can run a global project. “It is one of the greatest innovations of the last 20 years,” says Paul Argenti, a professor of management communications at Dartmouth’s Tuck School. But Argenti and others also say it is a medium whose function is confusing, in parts because the process is so easy and informal that people treat it as they do conversation but informal as it may be, e mail is writing and constitutes a permanent record, and because so much of human conversation is nonverbal, e mail messages, especially critical or complex ones, can easily be misunderstood.

【1】From the first paragraph,we can infer that Charles .

A. was very glad to see the benefits of e mails to his employees

B. thought it unbelievable that his employees used e mails so much

C. doubted the public enthusiasm about e mails for communications

D. considered the e mail application a somewhat happy experience

【2】The underlined word “hibernating” probably refers to those who .

A. get sleepy more easily for no actual work to do

B. have more time for sleep for their high efficiency

C. are not moving around and not talking to each other

D. become indifferent to each other even in the same office

【3】To change the worrisome situation, Charles Wang .

A. restricted the time for e mail correspondence

B. invented other media for communication

C. closed the e mail system in his company

D. closed his company for other business

【4】From the last paragraph, we can see the disadvantage of e mails may be that .

A. it is computer borneB. it doesn’t help global business

C. it may be misunderstoodD. it is a written language

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。Charles Wang還是軟件公司國(guó)際計(jì)算機(jī)協(xié)會(huì)董事長(zhǎng)時(shí)，因?yàn)閱T工們太過于熱衷發(fā)電子郵件而彼此之間幾乎不說話，Wang不得不限制了電子郵件通信的時(shí)間。幾乎每個(gè)人都認(rèn)為電子郵件是一項(xiàng)了不起的發(fā)明。它是一種方便的、非正式的媒介，可以很好地傳達(dá)滿足人類需要的信息。而由于人類的很多交流都是非語言的，所以電子郵件信息，尤其是批評(píng)的或復(fù)雜的，很容易被誤解。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段中“It was a disaster,” he says. “My managers were getting 200 to 300 e mails a day each. People were so fond of it that they weren’t talking to each other.（“這是一場(chǎng)災(zāi)難，”他說。“我的經(jīng)理們每天收到200到300封電子郵件。人們太喜歡它了，以至于彼此都不說話了。”）可知從第一段我們可以推斷，Charles認(rèn)為他的員工如此頻繁地使用電子郵件是不可思議的。故選B。

【2】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)上文People were so fond of it that they weren’t talking to each other.可知人們太喜歡電子郵件了，以至于彼此都不說話了。專注于給隔壁房間的人發(fā)電子郵件。故可推測(cè)劃線單詞意思為“不走動(dòng)，不說話”。故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段第一句To stop that, Wang short circuited the system, taking the astonishing step—considering what his $3.9 billion company does for a living—of banning all e mails from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.（為了阻止這種情況的發(fā)生，王縮短了系統(tǒng)的運(yùn)行時(shí)間，邁出了令人吃驚的一步——考慮到他價(jià)值39億美元的公司為了生存所做的一切——從早上9點(diǎn)30分到中午12點(diǎn)，從下午1點(diǎn)30分到4點(diǎn)禁止所有的電子郵件。）可知為了改變這種令人擔(dān)憂的情況，查爾斯·王限制了電子郵件通信的時(shí)間。故選A。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段中because so much of human conversation is nonverbal, e-mail messages, especially critical or complex ones, can easily be misunderstood.（由于人類的很多交流都是非語言的，所以電子郵件信息，尤其是批評(píng)的或復(fù)雜的，很容易被誤解。）可知電子郵件的缺點(diǎn)可能是它可能被誤解。故選C。

詞義猜測(cè)題做題技巧。

關(guān)于詞義猜測(cè)題做題技巧。詞義猜測(cè)題是閱讀理解中常見的一種題型，主要有對(duì)生詞的詞義猜測(cè)，熟詞新義以及代詞的猜測(cè)。其關(guān)鍵是根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，利用已掌握的信息，有必要的時(shí)候，借助生活或者文化常識(shí)，確定單詞的詞義。故第二小題，根據(jù)上文People were so fond of it that they weren’t talking to each other.可知人們太喜歡電子郵件了，以至于彼此都不說話了。專注于給隔壁房間的人發(fā)電子郵件。故可推測(cè)劃線單詞意思為“不走動(dòng)，不說話”。故選C。