Question

When Boris left school，he could not find a job．He tried hard and pestered(糾纏)his relatives，but they had problems of their Own. He answered advertisements until he could not afford to buy any more stamps. Boris grew annoyed，then depressed，then a little hardened．Still he went on trying and still he failed．He began to think that he had no future at all.

“Why don’t you start your own business?” one of his uncles told him．“The world is a  money-locker. You’d better find a way of opening it.”

“But what can I do?”

“Get out and have a look round,” advised his uncle in a vague sort of way．“See what people want；then give it to them，and they will pay for it.”

Boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of a waste ground in the end. Then he set up his business as a cycle repairer．He worked hard，made friends with his customers and gradually managed to build up his goodwill and profit．A few months later, he found that he had more work than he could deal with by himself．He found a number of empty shops but they were all no good：in the wrong position，too expensive or with some other snag(障礙). But at long last，he managed to find an empty shop on a new estate where there were plenty of customers but no competition.

Boris and his assistant taught themselves how to repair scooters and motor-cycles．Slowly  but surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last，Boris had managed to open the money-locker and found bank notes and gold Coins inside．

1.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage ?

A．Goodwill is the key to success．

B．The world is a money-locker

C．No education, no future

D．Difficulty of starting a small business

2.Which of the following best describes Boris’ job hunting experience?

A．Surprising         B．Encouraging        C．Boring            D．Disappointing

3.Boris start his career by       . 

A．cycling around the town

B．developing a waste ground

C．repairing cycles

D．buying empty shops

4.Boris finally chose an empty shop on a new estate because      .

A．it was not so expensive

B．he had a lot of old customers there

C．he could make good use of his skills there

D．there were good opportunities there

5.We can infer from the last paragraph that Boris       .

A．still couldn’t make good profits

B．set off in a successful career

C．found a lot of gold coins by accident

D．had great difficulty running his business

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.D

5.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述的是Boris非常努力，卻一直無法找到合適的工作，在親戚的建議下自己做生意，最后取得成功的故事，告訴我們“The world is a  money-locker. You’d better find a way of opening it.”一切都要靠我們自己去努力。

1.B 主旨大意題。本文講述的是Boris非常努力，卻一直無法找到合適的工作，在親戚的建議下自己做生意，最后取得成功的故事，告訴我們“The world is a  money-locker. You’d better find a way of opening it.”一切都要靠我們自己去努力。故B正確。

2.D 推理題。根據文章第一段He tried hard and pestered(糾纏)his relatives，but they had problems of their Own. He answered advertisements until he could not afford to buy any more stamps. Boris grew annoyed，then depressed，then a little hardened．Still he went on trying and still he failed．He began to think that he had no future at all.可知他嘗試了所有的方法，都沒有能夠找到一份工作，所以他找工作的經歷是非常不令人滿意的。故D正確。

3.C 細節題。根據文章第四段Boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of a waste ground in the end. Then he set up his business as a cycle repairer．說明他最初的時候是修理自行車。故C正確。

4.D 細節題。根據文章倒數第二段最后2句But at long last，he managed to find an empty shop on a new estate where there were plenty of customers but no competition說明在這里顧客很多，而且沒有競爭，說明他找到了一個好機會。故D正確。

5.B 推斷題。根據文章最后一段Slowly  but surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last，Boris had managed to open the money-locker and found bank notes and gold Coins inside．

說明最后他取得了成功。故B正確。

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點評：本文講述的是Boris非常努力，卻一直無法找到合適的工作，在親戚的建議下自己做生意，最后取得成功的故事，告訴我們“The world is a  money-locker. You’d better find a way of opening it.”一切都要靠我們自己去努力。文章基本上是考查細節題，對此類題型考生可以首先從問題中找到關鍵詞，然后以此為線索，運用略讀及查閱的技巧在文中迅速尋找這一細節，找到后再把這一部分內容仔細閱讀一遍，仔細比較所給選項與文中細節的細微區別，在準確理解細節的前提下，最后確定最佳答案。