Question

Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in different cultural experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. But three typical characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear.

    Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm when things do not go as one wants them to, or as one hopes they would, or even as one was sure they would. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not.

    A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reaction than a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.

    “The awareness of being unclear” is a more difficult concept to understand than patience and a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear as they are newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in a certain situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on. “It’s like that I just got here from the moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said. “Things are just so different here.”

1.The passage mainly tells us ______.

A. about some uneasy traveling experiences in foreign countries

B. about the three main ways to communicate with foreigners

C. about some typical characteristics in different cultural experiences

D. how to show your characters to foreigners

2.According to the passage, which characteristic should be focused on most?

A. The ability to keep cool.    B. The sense of humor.

C. Patience.                D. The awareness of being unclear.

3.“The awareness of being unclear” refers to “______” .

A. not knowing what is happening in a situation

B. not understanding the local language well enough

C. being aware that the situation is unclear

D. not knowing how some system or organization works

4.By what the Chinese graduate student said, we can learn that ______.

A. he is not used to the culture of America

B. he went to the United States to study the moon

C. he is a person with a sense of humor

D. he has just returned from the moon

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了和成功密切相關的三種個性特征。長期以來研究人員試圖尋找成功和人的個性特征之間的關系，雖然調查結果不是很明確，但是毋庸置疑耐心，幽默和對于未知情況的認知在所有的報告中是最為突出的三個方面，其中幽默感尤其顯著。

1.C主旨大意題。此文是總分的結構。在文章首段提出中心：人們試圖找出和成功有關的個性特征，其中主要的是patience，a sense of humor和the awareness of being unclear等，然后分別介紹了這三個方面。所以C選項正確。

2.B細節理解題。根據文章第三段The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.中的“ more”可知幽默感比其他兩個方面更值得注意，所以B為正確選項。

3.C推理判斷題。本段開頭提出The awareness of being unclear” is a more difficult concept to understand，隨后列舉一些情況進行解釋說明，比如they do not know what is happening … Perhaps they do not understand ….., or they do not know……和 or they can’t be sure of different people’s，由此可知劃線短語意思是“意識到情況的不確定性”，故C選項正確。

4.A推理判斷題。從上文they do not know what is happening in a certain situation. …. or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on.可知作者列舉的都是人們感到一些不確定的情況，所以下文提出中國留學生的例子也是用來解釋指對情況的不確定、不清楚的。故A選項正確。

考點：考查社會百科類短文閱讀。