A child’s birthday party doesn’t have to be a hassle; it can be a basket of fun, according to Beth Anaclerio, an Evanston mother of two, ages 4 and 18 months.

    “Having a party at home usually requires a lot of running around on the part of the parents, and often the birthday boy or girl gets lost in wild excitement. But it really doesn’t have to be that way,” said Anaclerio. Last summer, Anaclerio and her friend Jill Carlisle, a Northbrook mother of a 2-year-old, founded a home party-planning business called “A Party in a Basket”. Their goal is to help parents and children share in the fun part of party planning, like choosing the subject or making a cake, while they take care of everything.

    Drawing on their experiences as mothers, they have created (制作) ten ready-to-use, home party packages. Every thing a family needs to plan a party, except the cake and ice cream, is delivered to the home in a large basket.

    “Our parties are aimed for children two to ten,” Anaclerio said, “and they’re very interactive (互動(dòng)) and creative in that they build a sense of drama based on a subject. For example, at the Soda Shoppe party the guests become waiters and waitresses and build wonderful ice cream creations. ”

    The standard $ 200 package for eight children includes a basket filled with invitations, gifts, games and prizes, paper goods, a party planner and the like. For more information, call Anaclerio at 708-864-6584 or Carlisle at 708-205-9141.

1. The main purpose of writing this text is

A．to share information about party planning

B．to introduce the joys of a birthday party

C．to announce a business plan

D．to sell a service

2. The most important idea behind the kind of party planning described here is that

A．it brings parents and children closer together

B．guests play a part in the preparation of a party

C．parents are spared the trouble of sending invitations

D．it provides a subject of conversation

3. What does the underlined word “hassle”(Paragraph 1) probably mean?

A．a party designed by specialists

B．a plan requiring careful thought

C．a situation causing difficulty or trouble

D．a demand made by guests

 

答案：D;A;C
解析：

1短文中有多處線(xiàn)索可以提示，尤其在結(jié)尾段里：The standard $200 package(可謂“套餐”) for...includes...For more information，call...at...。既有服務(wù)內(nèi)容，又有價(jià)格、聯(lián)系電話(huà)，這樣的口吻顯然是在sell a service(選項(xiàng)D)。

    見(jiàn)多者識(shí)廣，平日留心各種英文文體的結(jié)構(gòu)特征，此時(shí)不難判斷本文的寫(xiě)作意圖。

2  題干問(wèn)及“most important idea behind the party planning...”，要求我們對(duì)“后臺(tái)”的東西做出推理判斷。這里所說(shuō)的idea即當(dāng)今人們常常談到的“理念”。第二段Anaclerio談到一般birthday party的不足之處：often requires a lot of running around on the part of the parents；然后說(shuō)：it doesn’t have to be that way，接下來(lái)說(shuō)起她本人所創(chuàng)辦的這項(xiàng)新型服務(wù)的好處，Their goal is to help parents and children share in the fun part of party planning，share在此意為to have(fun) together。因此本項(xiàng)party planning服務(wù)的最重要意義在于：bring parents and children closer together。

3 hassle一詞出現(xiàn)在短文首段開(kāi)頭句里，與全文話(huà)題中心有關(guān)。hassle之前說(shuō)A child’s birthday party doesn’t have to be...；之后的一個(gè)分句中則為進(jìn)一步解釋?zhuān)?it can be a basket of fun，應(yīng)為擺脫hassle后的情況�；蛘哒f(shuō)，hassle為a basket of fun的相反狀態(tài)。

    二段開(kāi)頭也有having a party at home 通常給人帶來(lái)的辛苦；usually requires a lot of running...。兩下形成對(duì)照。 hassle即為通常人們?cè)谂e辦party時(shí)會(huì)遇上的情況，也就是：a situation causing difficulty or trouble。

 


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