9.It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work.Her bus had inched along through heavy miming traffic,making her a few minutes late for her very first job.She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.
Once inside the lobby,she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor.When she finally reached the office marked"Smith Enterprises",she knocked at the door nervously and waited.There was no reply.She tapped on the door again,but still there was no answer.From inside the next office,she could hear the sound of voices,so she opened the door and went in.
Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr.Smith,it iooked quite different now.In fact,.t hardly looked like an office at all.The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking.In the front of the room,somebody must have just told a good joke,she thought,because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in.For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.
Then one of the men looked at his watch,clapped his hands and said something to the ottxers.Quickly they all went to their desks and,in a matter of seconds,everyone was hard at work.No one paid any attention to Marie.Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office.Hardly looking up from his work,he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr.Smith,who would arrive at any moment.then Marie realized that the day's work in the office began just before Mr.Smith arrived.Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning,arriving in the office at 9:35,so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.
56.Marie could hardly recognize the office she went into asD.
A.she had been there only once B.Mr.Smith was not m the office
C.nobody was doing any work D.the office seemed different
57.The peopling the office suddenly started working becauseB.
A.their morning break was ended B.the boss was about to arrive
C.they saw a stranger in the office D.no one wanted to talk to Marie
58.We can infer from the text that the employees of the enterpriseC.
A.were cold to newcomers
B.were always punctual for work
C.lacked devotion to the company
D.would'start their work by listening to a joke
59.The best title for this text would beA.
A.Punctual Like A Clock B.A Cold Welcome
C.An Unpunctual Manager D.Better Late Than Never.
分析 本文主要講述了瑪麗得到第一份工作后提前到公司,卻發(fā)現(xiàn)她幾乎認不出那間辦公室,里面的職員都在聊天或者吸煙,在一個人看了鐘表說了什么之后突然他們都開始認真工作,這使瑪麗非常不解,一個人解釋說他們的老板史密斯先生每天都幾乎在同一時間到公司,因此他們才這么做.作者通過這篇文章告訴我們不要像這群員工一樣,要認真工作,才能對公司作出貢獻.
解答 56.D 細節(jié)理解題,由第三段Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr.Smith,it iooked quite different now.可知瑪麗幾乎沒認出這間辦公室是因為它跟以前不一樣了,故選D.
57.B 細節(jié)理解題,由最后一段Hardly looking up from his work,he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr.Smith,who would arrive at any moment.可知職員們突然開始工作是因為史密斯先生馬上就要來了,故選B.
58.C 理解推斷題,由第三段The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking.及最后一段Quickly they all went to their desks and,in a matter of seconds,everyone was hard at work.可知每個人在老板要來之前都沒有工作,后來在同一時間開始認真工作,可知他們缺乏對公司的貢獻精神,故選C.
59.A 主旨大意題,由文章的最后可以看出公司的職員們在同一時間開始工作,像鐘表一樣準時,故選A.
點評 本文考察學生的故事類閱讀理解,抓住題干關鍵詞,采用尋讀的方法查找細節(jié),能根據已知結果推測導致結果的可能原因.