【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ain is that it’s unpredictable. For some people this is interesting, for others it is irritating (煩人的 ). But certainly you can never tell with certainty from one day to the next what the weather is going to be like. Every morning when you wake up is a glorious surprise － especially if you have planned to go to the seaside and you find it is pouring rain or snowing. There are weather forecasts (預(yù)報 ) on the radio and TV and in the newspaper － but on the whole nobody believes them. ? The word “unpredictable” means ____________. A. cannot be told in advance B. cannot be understood C. cannot be prepared for ahead D. cannot be concluded LOGO We were sorry that we had to ask the young man to leave the job. It was not that he was unpopular with the other people in the office. Everyone liked him. Nor was it that he was incapable. He had plenty of abilities. The problem was that so much of his work was unsatisfactory。 it wasn’t good enough. Sometimes he would leave a job unfinished, and never e back to plete it. Other times his writing would be so illegible that you couldn’t read it. Or he might disappear from the office for an hour or so with no explanation of where he had been. Once or twice he sat unoccupied for a while, doing nothing at all, until someone noticed him and gave him some work. ? In the passage “illegible” refers to ______________. A. difficult or impossible to read B. easy and ready to read C. easy and smooth to write D. difficult or impossible to write LOGO For the rest of the 1920s, Hitchcock worked on one film after another, in Britain and on location in Germany. Filming was often a roughandready (匆忙做成的 ) affair and the assistant director was required to step in and plug gaps. A cameraman went missing, Hitchcock became a cameraman. A scene needed rewriting, Hitchcock rewrote it. Someone needed to be in charge of money when the film crew was on location, Hitchcock looked after the money. ? According to the context (上下文 ), “step in and plug gaps” means__________. A. take one’s place to do something B. ask for one’s help C. make up one’s mind to do something D. congratulate someone on something LOGO Is there privacy between husband and wife? One of Sonia39。s friends married a talented Chinese man, but recently she became so angry that she wanted a divorce. The reason was that her husband had opened one of her letters and looked through her purse. The husband didn39。t realize that Americans wouldn’t tolerate it. He thought being a couple was like being one person。 why couldn39。t he see the letter or the contents of the purse? Truly, everyone, even those living as a couple, needs room — not only in threedimensional (立體的 ) space, but in the heart. ? The word “tolerate” means ______________. A. get rid of B. fet C. bear D. beat LOGO Those tiny, little hairs above our eyes that many women pay so much attention to play a very important role in keeping moisture out of our eyes. Just like an umbrella keeps our bodies dry from the rain, our hairy eyebrows keep our eyes dry from rain or sweat. When it39。s pouring rain outside or when sweat drips down from our foreheads, our eyebrows divert the flow of water or sweat away from our eyes. ? According to the context (上下文 ), “moisture” refers to _______. A. ice B. boiled water C. rain or sweat D. soft drink LOGO Still John drove up and stopped and they were both horror stricken to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was screaming, The children! Get the children! John grabbed her by the shoulder saying, Tell us where the children are! In the basement, sobbed the woman, down the hall and to the left.“ ? What does “horrorstricken” mean __________. A. greatly frightened B. deeply moved C. highly praised D. pletely surprised LOGO ? （四）主旨題： 主要的目的是了解文章所論述的主題思想以及作者的寫作意圖。 常見命題方式： ? A: What is the general topic of the passage? ? B: The best title for this passage is ______. ? C: The main idea of this passage is______. ? D: What is the passage about? ? E: What does this passage mainly discuss? 這類問題選擇答案時切忌過于具體，不能選擇概括全篇文章中某一段落的主題的、或是某個細(xì)節(jié)的選項(xiàng)；另外也不要選擇過于籠統(tǒng)的答案，致使選項(xiàng)中包含的內(nèi)容超越了文章的主題。最基本的方法是找各個段落的主題句。 主題句通常在一段的開頭或者結(jié)尾部分。 因此解答主旨題時，應(yīng)該多關(guān)注一個段落的兩頭。當(dāng)然，有時候主題句藏在一段的中間，甚至壓根兒就沒有主題句。 LOGO Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere, they have a language of their own. One such thing is get your act together. When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry, he may shout get your act together. Getting your act together is getting anized. In business it usually means developing a calm and orderly plan of action. It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said Calm down now, get your act together. Word expert James Roger says the expression was mon by the late 1970s. Another expression used by American business people is cut to the chase… ? The passage is mainly about______________. A. American business world B. movie language C. American business language D. American businessmen LOGO A characteristic of American culture that has bee almost a trad