Question

Forget hard work and perseverance. Getting ahead is as simple as tidying your desk.

According to a leading expert, having a cluttered environment reflects a cluttered mind, but the act of tidying up can help you be more successful. The advice comes from Jayne Morris, the resident "life coach" for NHS Online, who said it is no good just moving the mess around. In order to clear the mind, unwanted items must be thrown away to free your "inner world", she said.

Ms Morris, who claims to have coached celebrities(名流) to major business figures, said: “Clearing clutter from your desk has the power to transform your business. Why? Because clutter in your outer environment is the physical sign of all the clutter going on inside of you." Clearing clutter has a chain effect across your entire life, including your work. Having an untidy desk covered in clutter could be stopping you achieving the business success you want." She is sure cleaning up will be helpful even though some of history's biggest achievers lived and worked in messy conditions.

Churchill was considered untidy from a boy throughout his life, from his office to his artist's studio, and the lab where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin was famously untidy.

Among the recommendations is that simply tidying a desk at work and an overflowing filing cabinet (陳列柜) will instantly have a positive impact on "your inner world. " Anything that is no longer used should not be put into storage but thrown away completely.

Keeping something in the loft, garage or other part of the house, does not help because it is still connected to the person "by tiny energetic lines", Ms Morris claims.

She said, "The things in your life that are useful to you, that add value to your life, that serve a current purpose are charged with positive energy that refreshes you and enriches your life. But the things that you don't ever use and don't need anymore have the opposite effect on your energy. Things that no longer fit or serve you use up your energy. "

1.The underlined word "cluttered" (in Para.2) is closest in meaning to _____________.

A．messy            B．brief             C．complex          D．aggressive

2.Which of the following statements does Ms Morris agree to?

A．Changing the position of staff frequently will help to build up a clear mind.

B．A tidy office will lead to a success in your business affairs in no time.

C．To have a free mind, we need to throw away unneeded items at times.

D．You can pack up your things in garage or loft to cheer you up.

3.According to Ms Morris, an untidy desk probably means that              .

A．you are quite a failure

B．you are in a messy mind

C．you are very tired to deal with it

D．you have achieved the business success

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．Less untidy, more successful.

B．How to improve your inner world.

C．Cleaning up makes you less intelligent.

D．Being bigger achiever needs more effort.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文呼吁我們要讓自己的環境變得整潔，只有這樣才會讓我們的內心得到整理，也變得有條理，有助于我們在生活中取得成功。

1.A 推理題。根據本句According to a leading expert, having a cluttered environment reflects a cluttered mind, but the act of tidying up can help you be more successful.可知這里的cluttered environment是指環境很雜亂，也就是不整潔。所以才倡導我們要整理好自己的個人物品。故A正確。

2.C 推理題。根據第二段前4行Ms Morris, who claims to have coached celebrities(名流) to major business figures, said: “Clearing clutter from your desk has the power to transform your business. Why? Because clutter in your outer environment is the physical sign of all the clutter going on inside of you."可知把自己雜亂的桌子收拾干凈可以讓給我們的內心也變得干凈。故C正確。

3.B 推理題。根據文章第二段第3行Because clutter in your outer environment is the physical sign of all the clutter going on inside of you."可知雜亂的桌面說明你內心世界也很雜亂。故B正確。

4.A 主旨大意題。根據文章主題段第一段內容可知本文是呼吁我們要讓自己的環境變得整潔，只有這樣才會讓我們的內心得到整理，也變得有條理，有助于我們在生活中取得成功。故A正確。

考點：考察人生百態類短文閱讀

點評：本文講述的是一種新的觀點，呼吁我們要讓自己的環境變得整潔，只有這樣才會讓我們的內心得到整理，也變得有條理，有助于我們在生活中取得成功。測試考生在閱讀基礎上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據文章所述事件的邏輯關系，對未說明的趨勢或結局作出合理的推斷；或根據作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現象、事例給以解釋。考生首先要仔細閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準確把握作者觀點。