题目
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[1] Jean Paul Getty was born in 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24. His father was wealthy, but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.”
[2]But money _________. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty’s children had very happy lives.
[3]Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth, Getty was miser. Every evening, he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephone in the guest’s bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.
[4] In 1973, kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty’s son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty’s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally, Getty agreed to lend the money, but at 4 percent interest.
[5] Getty started a museum at his home Malibu, California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976, the value of the collection in the museum was $1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death, the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life, but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.
小题1:What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (no more than 8 words)
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小题2:Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)
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小题3:Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph3.
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小题4:What did the kidnappers do to Getty’s family (no more than 10 words)
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小题5:What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)
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答案
小题1:Getty was a self-made millionaire./ Getty became rich through his own efforts.
小题2:did not buy happiness for Getty
小题3:Although he was very rich, Getty hated to spend money.
小题4:They took Getty’s grandson and asked for money.
小题5:Getty made a great contribution to the art world.
解析
小题1:主旨概括题。第一段话主要介绍了他通过自己的努力成为百万富翁。文中提示的关键语句有“He became a millionaire…”“Getty made his millions alone”“ The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.””。
小题2:信息补全题。需补全的这个句子实质上是段落主题句。阅读本段信息:结婚离婚五次;很少与五个孩子一起;他的那些孩子也没幸福的生活。据此可知,空白处应该归纳本段大意,即:钱没有给Getty买来幸福。
小题3:同义置换题。需要注意短语in spite of的解释,可以将其转换为though或although等表让步的连词;great wealth即rich或wealthy之意;且根据后文的叙述可以推测miser为“舍不得花钱的人;守财奴”等之意。
小题4:细节理解题。根据第四段话“kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return”可知答案。
小题5:主旨概括题。本段叙述了他开了博物馆,买了艺术作品;再根据末句“Getty made a large fortune in his life, but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art”可知本段主要讲述了Getty将他的财富捐献给了艺术世界。
核心考点
试题【阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题,交答案与在答题卡相应的位置上(请注意76、77、79和80四个小题后面的词数要求)。[1] Jean Paul Getty was】;主要考察你对数词等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
—Me too. The character of the town is well ______.
A.qualified | B.preserved | C.decorated | D.simplified |
A.get over | B.look over | C.take over | D.come over |
A.share | B.chance | C.turn | D.lead |
The everyday signs of conscientiousness (认真尽责)—being punctual, careful in doing work, self-disciplined, and scrupulous (一丝不苟的) in attending to responsibilities—are typical characteristics of the model organizational citizen, the people who keep things running as they should. They follow the rules, help out, and are concerned about the people they work with. It’s the conscientious worker who helps newcomers or updates people who return after an absence, who gets to work on time and never abuses sick leaves, who always gets things done on deadline.
Conscientiousness is a key to success in any field. In studies of job performance, outstanding effectiveness for almost all jobs, from semi-skilled labor to sales and management, depends on conscientiousness. It is particularly important for outstanding performance in jobs at the lower levels of an organization: the secretary whose message taking is perfect, the delivery truck driver who is always on time.
Among sales representatives for a large American car manufacturer, those who were most conscientious had the largest volume of sales. Conscientiousness also offers a buffer (缓冲) against the threat of job loss in today’s constantly changing market, because employees with this quality are among the most valued. For the sales representatives, their level of conscientiousness mattered almost as much as their sales in determining who stayed on.
There is an air around highly conscientious people that makes them seem even better than they actually are. Their reputation for dependability influences managers’ evaluations of their work, giving them higher evaluations than objective measures of their performance would predict.
But conscientiousness in the absence of social skills can lead to problems. Since conscientious people demand so much of themselves, they can hold other people to their own standards, and so be overly judgmental when others don’t show the same high levels of model behavior. Factory workers in Great Britain and the United States who were extremely conscientious, for example, tended to criticize co-workers even about failures that seemed unimportant to those they criticized, which damaged their relationships.
When conscientiousness takes the form of living up to expectations, it can discourage creativity. In creative professions like art or advertising, openness to wild ideas and spontaneity (自发性) are scarce and in demand. Success in such occupations calls for a balance, however; without enough conscientiousness to follow through, people become mere dreamers, with nothing to show for their imaginativeness.
A.curiosity | B.satisfaction. | C.envy | D.patience. |
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