Question

It's difficult enough to have privacy in a house, so privacy in a small dorm room is next to impossible. However, it can be done if both roommates are willing to cooperate.

Step 1  Tie a scarf to the outside doorknob as a symbol of Do Not Disturb, but be careful not to do this too consistently. Warn your roommate beforehand about possible days and times when this scarf will be on the door so your roommate will have time to make plans ahead of time instead of it being a surprise, especially if you plan to have an overnight guest. Be considerate if your roommate needs to get into the room regardless of the scarf on the door to get something out of the dorm because it is his dorm room too.

Step 2 If one roommate is a light sleeper and the other is a heavy sleeper, the heavy sleeper could consider an alternate way to wake himself up besides an alarm. Heavy sleepers tend to ignore alarms, but sometimes vibrating (震動的) cell phones feel like someone is shaking them. It is also a quieter way not to disturb the light sleeping roommate using a vibrating cell phone.

Step 3 Take cell phone calls outside of the room. Your roommate may not want to hear your conversation or you may want some privacy, but your roommate should not have to leave every time you have a phone call. The roommate who is not on the phone has no way of knowing how often you will have phone calls and should not be put out because you do.

Step 4 Ask if it' s okay to have a guest in the room. Although your roommate is not your parent, and you may feel like this is your room too, remember that__________. He may not want company when you do. If one roommate is more sociable than the other and guests become a repeated argument, consider asking the resident director if you can swap( 交換) roommate with someone else.

1.What does the passage mainly talk about? (no more than 10 words)

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2.How to avoid disturbing the light sleeper according to the passage(no more than 6 words)

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3.Please fill in the blank in the passage with proper words, (no more than 6 words)

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4.What does Step 3 suggest us? (no more than 10 words)

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5.What does the word "it" (line 2, paragraph 1) probably refer to? (no more than 3 words)

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Answer 1

【答案】

1. How to have privacy in a house/ dorm room.

2.using a vibrating cell phone.

3.It’s also his room

4.Take cell phone calls outside the room

5.Having privacy/privacy

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了在一個小宿舍里怎么才能有自己的私人空間呢，這里給出了四點建議。一是在門把手上系一個頭巾，來作為請勿打擾的標志。二是把手機設為震動作為鬧鐘。三是接打電話去屋外。四是如果有個客人在房間先征求一下其他人的意見。

1.根據It's difficult enough to have privacy in a house, so privacy in a small dorm room is next to impossible. However, it can be done if both roommates are willing to cooperate.可知如何在家或在宿舍有一個私人的空間。

2.It is also a quieter way not to disturb the light sleeping roommate using a vibrating cell phone.使用手機的震動功能也是不打擾其他人的一種方式。

3.Although your roommate is not your parent, and you may feel like this is your room too, 你的室友不是你的父母，你也許覺得這是你的房間，但是它也是他的。

4.Step 3 Take cell phone calls outside of the room.去房間外面接打電話。

5.It's difficult enough to have privacy in a house, so privacy in a small dorm room is next to impossible. 這里的It 指的是Having privacy/privacy，下文的it can be done if both roommates are willing to cooperate.中it指的也是一樣的。

考點：這是一篇記敘文。

點評：這是閱讀理解題和書面表達題的結合，屬任務型閱讀。試題的考查形式為：主旨概括、英文釋義（句子替代）、句子填空、翻譯句子、封閉性問題或開放性問題（語言組織）及其他類型。該題型從不同角度測試了考生的綜合語言運用能力。