Question

A box boy at a supermarket was hard work. People came to the counter(柜台) and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. I had worked as a box boy in a supermarket in central Los Angles for ten months when I was seventeen.

While working, I wear a plate(标牌) with my name on it. One day I met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, “Mr. Castle, how are you?” We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, “It was nice talking to you, Brett.” I felt great that he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh no. He didn’t remember me at all. He just read the name plate. I wish I had put “Irving” down on my name plate. If he’d have said, “Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?” I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.

The manager often shouted orders. One of these was: You couldn’t accept tips(小费). Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction(反应) is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you mean being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hands and you expect them to say, “Oh, thanks a lot.” When you say “I’m sorry, I can’t”, they feel a little put down. They say, “No one will know.” And they put it in your pocket. You say“I really can’t.”. It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person to prevent him from tipping you. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady in fact put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.

I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive. I guess I had money and could afford to hate it and give it up.

1.What can be the best title for this text?

A. How Hard Life is for Box Boys    B. Getting along with Customers

C. Why I Gave up My Job    D. The Art of Taking Tips

2.From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.

A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job

B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking

C. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett

D. Irving was the writer’s real name

3.Which is the correct order of the following sentences?

a.Mr. Castle called the boy name.

b.The boy got to know Mr. Castle. 

c.The boy realized Mr. Castle forgot him.

d.The boy began to work in this supermarket.

e.The boy met Mr. Castle and had a talk.

A. a-d-c-b-e    B. c-a-b-e-d    C. b-d-e-a-c    D. d-b-a-e-c

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.C

【解析】作者主要讲述了他打工时所遇到的一些事情。作者上班时，见到了以前见过的一个人，并和他攀谈，那个人和他再见并说出自己的名字时，作者非常高兴，他原以为是那个人记住了自己的名字，后来才发现别人是看了挂在自己胸前的卡才知道的，因此感到非常的失落和沮丧。他认为胸前挂着姓名牌子使一个人失去了人格，因此他不喜欢这种失去人格的工作。

1.主旨大意题。通读全文可知，作者主要讲述了他打工时所遇到的一些事情。从最初遇到朋友时的想法到拒绝收小费时的尴尬，使他感到打工的艰辛，所以他决定辞职。答案为C。

2.推理判断题。第二段中先是说作者上班时，见到了以前见过的一个人，并和他攀谈，那个人和他再见并说出自己的名字时，作者非常高兴，他原以为是那个人记住了自己的名字，后来才发现别人是看了挂在自己胸前的卡才知道的，因此感到非常的失落和沮丧。他认为胸前挂着姓名牌子使一个人失去了人格，因此他不喜欢这种失去人格的工作。答案为A。

3.段落大意题。根据短文的故事情节可知，男孩在超市工作的前一年就认识卡斯尔先生，一年后男孩在超市里再一次遇见卡斯尔先生并与他交谈起来，临走时，卡斯尔先生叫出了小男孩的名字，男孩原以为是那个人记住了自己的名字，后来才发现别人是看了挂在自己胸前的卡才知道的，故正确的顺序为C。

点睛：主旨大意题主要是测试学生对一篇文章或一段文字的深层理解程度及在速读中准确把握文章主旨大意的能力。一般针对某一语段或某一语篇的主题标题或目的设题。做这类题，首先要找出文章的主题句。找出文章的主题句，也就明确了文章要讲什么，再通过速读全文，就可以把握文章的中心思想了。主题句在整个语段中起着统领全文的作用，其它句子都是用来阐述、解释、支持或发展主题句所表达的主题思想的，其位置一般位于段首，也见于短文的末尾或短文的中间。另外在许多文段中，设有可以概括全段意义的主题句，必须根据文章中所提供的事实细节，进行全面分析，然后归纳成一般概念。但必须注意，既不能以偏概全，也不能在概括时过于宽泛，要恰如其分。 这就需要进一步加工概括了。如第1小题就需要概括出主题句。