Question

I believe in leaving work at five o’clock. In a nation with such a strict work ethic(道德規(guī)范) , this is considered strange. Working only 40 hours a week? I just don’t know many people who punch out (打卡下班) at five o’clock anymore.

My father tried to teach me the importance of hard work, long hours and devotion to a career. But then there are the things he taught me unintentionally, like when he arrived home from work for the last time and crawled up the stairs.

My father, a self-employed sales trainer, was that sick, that tired. His body was wracked with liver cancer, and he suffered the effects of a diabetic ulcer（糖尿�。�. Despite all this, he insisted on traveling a long way to give a lecture. He probably earned a lot of money that day, but he paid the price. He returned to the hospital soon afterwards and was dead within three months, aged just 58.

It’s been 10 years since I saw my father come home that night and since then, I’ve thought a lot about work. I’ve decided something: I will never crawl up the stairs exhausted. As much as I love my job as a newspaper reporter, I will never work myself into the ground, physically or emotionally. Not taking my work home didn’t come easily to me at first. After all, I am my father’s daughter. In college, I was the girl who sat on the library steps each morning, waiting for the doors to open. I even dreamt about schoolwork.

My dad once told me he was unable to just gaze at a sunset; he had to be doing something as he looked at it—writing, reading, playing chess. You could say he was a success: He was a published author, an accomplished musician, fluent in many languages. That’s an impressive list, but the thing is I want to gaze at sunsets. I don’t want to meet a deadline during them or be writing a column at the same time, or glance at them over the top of a book.

This raises the question: If I leave work at five o’ clock to watch the sunset, what are the consequences? Do I risk not reaching the top of my profession? Maybe, because honestly, knocking off after eight hours probably won’t earn me the best promotion. But hey, leaving work at five o’ clock means I eat dinner with my family. I get to hop on my bike and cycle through the streets of my hometown when there is no traffic.

And I get to take in a lot of sunsets. That’s got to be worth something.

1.Which of the following about the author’s father is true?

A. He set a good example to his daughter.

B. He tried to force his values on his daughter.

C. He gained much pleasure from his work.

D. He achieved great success at the expense of his health.

2.What does the author mean by saying “Not taking my work home did not come easily at first” in Paragraph 4?

A. There was so much work to do.    

B. All her colleagues took work home.

C. She was educated to be a workaholic.

D. She wanted a promotion in her work.

3.What’s the author’s attitude toward promotion?

A. She doesn’t care about it at all.

B. She is eager to get promoted

C. She thinks it’s for the ambitious people

D. Getting promoted at all costs is not worthwhile

4. This text is developed________.

A. by giving examples                         B. by making comparisons

C. by describing process                       D. by order of time

5. What does the writer intend to tell us?

A. To praise his father’s diligence

B. To ask us to take time off work to enjoy life

C. To complain about the strict work ethic

D. To stress the importance of hard work

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.C

3.D

4.A

5.B

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹了我的父親經(jīng)常教導(dǎo)我努力工作的重要性，他在下午五點(diǎn)的時(shí)候很少按時(shí)回家，總是是加班加點(diǎn)的工作，很少有休息時(shí)間，看一次日落的機(jī)會(huì)都沒(méi)有，正是這么兢兢業(yè)業(yè)的工作帶來(lái)的勞累，父親早早的去世了，我不想再像父親那樣，我要按時(shí)下班，可以騎著自行車(chē)走在鄉(xiāng)村的路上，可以欣賞日落，盡管我可能有達(dá)不到專(zhuān)業(yè)頂峰的危險(xiǎn)，也許我會(huì)失去好的晉升機(jī)會(huì)，但我覺(jué)得也是值得的。

1.D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。His body was wracked with liver cancer, and he suffered the effects of a diabetic ulcer（糖尿�。�. Despite all this, he insisted on traveling a long way to give a lecture. He probably earned a lot of money that day, but he paid the price.他的身體患有肝癌，還有糖尿病，盡管這些，他仍堅(jiān)持去很遠(yuǎn)的地方做講演，他也許掙了很多的錢(qián)，但他也付出了很大的代價(jià)。故答案應(yīng)為D。他以健康為代價(jià)取得了成功。

2.C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。Not taking my work home didn’t come easily to me at first. After all, I am my father’s daughter.剛開(kāi)始做到不把工作帶回家并不是容易的事兒，畢竟，我是我父親的女兒。意思是說(shuō)父親從小就教育我要努力工作，要奉獻(xiàn)給事業(yè)。所以答案應(yīng)為C，從小就被教育要做一個(gè)“工作狂”。

3.D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。Do I risk not reaching the top of my profession? Maybe, because honestly, knocking off after eight hours probably won’t earn me the best promotion. But hey, leaving work at five o’ clock means I eat dinner with my family. I get to hop on my bike and cycle through the streets of my hometown when there is no traffic. And I get to take in a lot of sunsets. That’s got to be worth something.大意為：也許我有不能到達(dá)專(zhuān)業(yè)頂峰的危險(xiǎn)，也許八個(gè)小時(shí)后停止工作不能為我贏得提拔------，但這一切我認(rèn)為是值得的。故答案應(yīng)為D。

4.D綜合理解題。本文以我父親的經(jīng)歷為例子，父親一生只知道忙于工作拿自己的健康做代價(jià)，五十八歲就去世了，而我更愿意去每天工作八個(gè)小時(shí)，下午五點(diǎn)下班后，我要和家人一起吃晚飯，還要看日落等等，是拿了父親的事情做了例子，我才要這么做的，故答案應(yīng)為D。

5.D中心理解題。文章的最后一自然段點(diǎn)明了中心，我工作八個(gè)小時(shí)，五點(diǎn)后下班等等，這一切也許會(huì)影響我的晉升，也許影響我的專(zhuān)業(yè)，但這些犧牲比起我和家人一起吃晚餐，一起在鄉(xiāng)村的街道上騎車(chē)，還有看日落相比起來(lái)還是值得的，所以是說(shuō)要有一定的時(shí)間去享受生活是本文的主旨。故答案應(yīng)為D。

【考點(diǎn)】考查人生百味類(lèi)文章的閱讀理解。