C. be used in the wrong places D. show personal habits
【答案】B
【解析】根据文章第一段中的“It can also hide true feelings. It often causes confusion (困惑) across cultures.”可知这是一个中心句，其后用例证法阐述：微笑能隐藏真正的感情。它常常导致跨文化间的困惑。其中越南人讲故事的例子就是为了说明这一观点。故选B。 【考点定位】考查作者的写作意图。
51. What should we do before attempting to “read” people?
A. Learn about their relations with others. B. Understand their cultural backgrounds. C. Find out about their past experience. D. Figure out what they will do next.
【答案】B
【解析】根据文章最后一段中的“The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotion are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the mistake of “reading” the other person incorrectly.”可知，我们在“读”人们的表情的时候，要现理解他们的文化背景，否则，就会出错。 【考点定位】考查判断推理。
52. What would be the best title for the test?
A. Cultural Differences C. Facial Expressiveness
B. Smiles and Relationship D. Habits and Emotions
【答案】C
【解析】文章通篇阐述了面部表情的种种表现形式，以及文化之间的差异导致的面部表情的含义不同。所以C正确。 【考点定位】考查文章的标题。
D
Spring is coming, and it is time for those about to graduate to look for jobs. Competition is tough, so job seekers must carefully consider their personal choices. Whatever we are wearing，our family and friends may accept us, but the workplace may not.
A high school newspaper editor said it is unfair for companies to discourage visible tattoos (纹身）nose rings, or certain dress styles. It is true you can?t judge a book by its cover, yet people
do “cover” themselves in order to convey (传递)certain messages. What we wear, including tattoos and nose rings, is an expression of who we are. Just as people convey messages about themselves with their appearances? so do companies. Dress standards exist in the business world for a number of reasons, but the main concern is often about what customers accept.
Others may say how to dress is a matter of personal freedom, but for businesses it is more about whether to make or lose money. Most employers do care about the personal appearances of their employees (雇员),because those people represent the companies to their customers.
As a hiring manager I am paid to choose the people who would make the best impression on our customers. There are plenty of well-qualified candidates, so it is not wrong to reject someone who might disappoint my customers. Even though I am open-minded, I can?t expect all our customers are.
There is nobody to blame but yourself if your set of choices does not match that of your preferred employer. No company should have to change to satisfy a candidate simply cause he or she is unwilling to respect its standards, as long as its standards are legal.
57. Which of the following is the newspaper editor? opinion according to Paragraph 2?
A. People?s appearances carry messages about themselves. B. Customers? choices influence dress standards in companies. C. Candidates with tattoos or nose rings should be fairly treated. D. Strange dress styles should not be encouraged in the workplace. 58. What can be inferred from the text?
A. Candidates have to wear what companies prefer for an interview. B. What to wear is not a matter of personal choice for companies. C. Companies sometimes have to change to respect their candidates. D. Hiring managers make the best impression on their candidates. 59. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Employees Matter C. Appearances Matter
B. Personal Choices Matter D. Hiring Managers Matter
60. The author?s attitude towards strange dress styles in the workplace may best be described as .
A. enthusiastic
B. negative
C positive
D. sympathetic
D C7[2012陕西卷]
【要点综述】又是一年毕业季，很多大学毕业生又要开始为寻找一份可以乃以生存的工作而奔忙了，但是，影响就业成功的因素很多，其中有一点就是面试时的着装。
57【答案与解析】C 推理判断题。根据第二自然段的首句可知作者的意思是有纹身或戴鼻环去面试不会被公平的对待，故本题选C。
58【答案与解析】B 推理判断题。通读第三自然段可知本文作者的意思是：员工的穿着不再是员工的私人问题，而是影响到公司的声誉和发展的大问题。选B。
59【答案与解析】C 主旨大意题。本文大意是关于员工的着装问题，即员工的外貌问题，故本题选C。
60【答案与解析】B 作者意图题。根据本文后两个自然段可知作者对于员工着奇装异服的态度也是否定的，故选B。
E
Three Boys and a Dad
Brad closed the door slowly as Sue left home to visit her mother. Expecting a whole day to relax, he was thinking whether to read the newspaper or watch his favourite TV talk show on his first day off in months. “This will be like a walk in the park,” he?d told his wife. “I?ll look after the kids, and you can go visit your mom.”
Things started well, but just after eight o?clock, his three little “good kids”—Mike, Randy, and Alex—came down the stairs in their night clothes and shouted “breakfast, daddy.” When food had not appeared within thirty seconds, Randy began using his spoon on Alex?s head as if it were a drum. Alex started to shout loudly in time to the beat（节拍）. Mike chanted “Where?s my toast, where?s my toast” in the background. Brad realized his newspaper would have to wait for a few seconds.
Life became worse after breakfast. Mike wore Randy?s underwear on his head. Randy locked himself in the bathroom, while Alex shouted again because he was going to wet his pants. Nobody could find clean socks, although they were before their very eyes. Someone named “Not Me” had spilled a whole glass of orange juice into the basket of clean clothes. Brad knew the talk show had already started.
By ten o?clock, things were out of control. Alex was wondering why the fish in the jar refused his bread and butter. Mike was trying to show off his talent by decorating the kitchen wall with his colour pencils. Randy, thankfully, appeared to be reading quietly in the family room，but closer examination showed that he was eating apple jam straight from the bottle with his hands. Brad realized that the talk show was over and reading would be impossible.
At exactly 11:17, Brad called the daycare centre (日托所）.“I suddenly have to go into work and my wife?s away. Can I bring the boys over in a few minutes?” The answer was obviously “yes” because Brad was smiling.
49. When his wife left home. Brad expected to .
A. go out for a walk in the park B. watch TV talk show with his children C. enjoy his first day off work D. read the newspaper to his children 50. Which of the following did Randy do?
A. Drawing on the wall B. Eating apple jam C. Feeding the fish. D. Reading in a room 51.Why did Brad ask the daycare centre for help?
A. Because he wanted to clean up his house. B. Because he suddenly had to go to his office C. Because he found it hard to manage his boys home. D. Because he had to take his wife back 52. This text is developed .
A. by space
B. by comparison
C. by process
D. by time
【要点综述】母亲回娘家去照顾外婆了，留下父亲照看三个淘气的小家伙，此时，家里的一切都乱套了……
49.【答案与解析】C 推理判断题。根据第一自然段的第二句可知本题选C。 50.【答案与解析】B 事实细节题。根据第四自然段的倒数第二句可知本题选B。
51.【答案与解析】C 推理判断题。通读全文可知Brad打电话给日托所的原因是他照顾不了三个淘气的小家伙，选C。
52.【答案与解析】D 篇章结构题。通读本文可知本文是按时间顺序进行描述的，故选D。 4.【2012四川卷】
F
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn?t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish
to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start — there?s a dark period in-between where you?re neither one thing nor the other. You?re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you?re too ashamed to say, “Well, I?m writing a novel, but I?m not quite sure if I?m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商）who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there?s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）.
49. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean? A. I was waiting for good fortune. B. I was trying to find an admirable job. C. I was being aimless about a suitable job. D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time. 50. The author decided to write a novel ______ . A. to finish the writing course B. to realize her own dream C. to satisfy readers? wish D. to earn more money
51. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
A. Disturbed. B. Ashamed. C. Confident. D. Uncertain. 52. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph? A. It pays to stick to one?s goal.