2020屆高考英語(yǔ)閱讀理解之主旨大意題復(fù)習(xí)
others may say how to dress is a matter of personal freedom, but for businesses it is more about whether to make or lose money. most employers do care about the personal appearances of their employees (雇員),because those people represent the companies to their customers.
as a hiring manager i am paid to choose the people who would make the best impression on our customers. there are plenty of well-qualified candidates, so it is not wrong to reject someone who might disappoint my customers. even though i am open-minded, i can’t expect all our customers are.
there is nobody to blame but yourself if your set of choices does not match that of your preferred employer. no company should have to change to satisfy a candidate simply cause he or she is unwilling to respect its standards, as long as its standards are legal.
59. which of the following would be the best title for the text?
a. employees matter b. personal choices matter
c. appearances matter d. hiring managers matter
59【答案與解析】c 主旨大意題。本文大意是關(guān)于員工的著裝問(wèn)題，即員工的外貌問(wèn)題，故本題選c。
6. 【山東卷 b】
one of the greatest contributions to the first oxford english dictionary was also one of its most unusual. in 1879, oxford university in england asked prof. james murray to serve as editor for what was to be the most ambitious dictionary in the history of the english language. it would include every english word possible and would give not only the definition but also the history of the word and quotations (引文)showing how it was used.
this was a huge task. so murrary had to find volunteers from britain, the united states, and the british colonies to search every newspaper, magazine, and book ever written in english. hundreds of volunteers responded, including william chester minor. dr. minor was an american surgeon who had served in the civil war and was now living in england. he gave his address as “broadmoor, crowthorne, berkshire,” 50 miles from oxford.
minor joined the army of volunteers sending words and quotations to murray. over the next years, he became one of the staff’s most valued contributors.
but he was also a mystery. in spite of many invitations, he would always decline to visit oxford. so in 1897， murray finally decided to travel to crowthorne himself. when he arrived, he found minor locked in a book-lined cell at the broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane.
murray and minor became friends, sharing their love of words. minor continued contributing to the dictionary, sending in more than 10,000 submissions in 20 years. murray continued to visit minor regularly, sometimes taking walks with him around the asylum grounds.