第3讲 学习活动类 【典例】
(2016·浙江高考) A. Time can run out.
B. Tomorrow won’t be better.
C. Ideas need time to develop.
D. Your professor will be impatient.
E. You blow off your chances for help.
F. You’re probably overestimating(高估)the pain.
Never Put off Until Tomorrow What You Can Do Today
Want to put off studying for the physics test? Or writing that thirty-five-page research paper on future uses of biotechnology? Sure you do? And who wouldn’t? But it’s still a silly idea to put off doing something until a future time. Here’s why. . .
61. ________The task will be still the same. It won’t be any more fun and you still won’t want to do it. As the deadline gets closer and closer, the task seems to become larger and larger if you haven’t started the work. And the stress increases. Now not only do you have to write that paper, you have to do it under great pressure.
62. ________Before you start, it seems that the task is unlikely to be accomplished. But you know what? You’re probably miscalculating. Get started—maybe on a small piece—and you’ll discover that you have more resources and know more about the subject than you thought. Result? You won’t experience nearly as much suffering as you expected to. Things are guaranteed—100 percent—to get better.
63. ________If you leave your work until the night before it’s due, you give up the possibility of getting input from your professor. Professors regularly give advice—or at least a few useful tips—during office hours. Unfortunately, though, they don’t usually hold office hours at midnight, so you’ll be out of luck when you discover the night before the midterm that you have no idea how to do the question that will count for two-thirds of your grade.
64. ________Ever wonder why the professor assigns the paper two weeks before it’s due? It’s because he or she expects you to be thinking about the issue, or doing the research, for two weeks. No, not every waking moment, but at least some of the time. After all, the professor could just as easily have given the assignment one week before it was due if he or she expected less thinking. Most college papers require you to have some kind of idea, then to spend some time thinking about it, revising it, and polishing it. When you throw together a paper or a report at the last minute, your ideas are half-baked. And your professor will know it.
65. ________If you put things off till the last minute, you might find that you haven’t budgeted enough minutes to finish the necessary tasks. It’s the easiest thing in the world to miscalculate how long it’ll take to do all the work especially when new issues arise—like illness, family problems, computer breakdowns, trouble at work, and all the other things—as you’re thinking through your paper argument or preparing yourself for the coming test. If you keep delaying, you don’t allow yourself time for those various life events that have an adverse(不利的)effect on your ability to complete your assignment.
【解题思路】 1. 文章大意:
这是一篇议论文。从文章的标题来看, 文章主要告诉我们今天能够完成的事情不要推到明天去做。然后文章从这个主题出发, 具体讨论了如何去做。每段大意为: 明天不一定会更好; 你可能高估了痛苦; 得到帮助的机会可能会丧失; 想法需要时间去培养和发展; 时间会用完。这样具体解答试题就很容易了。 2. 解答此类试题可以采用下面的方法:
(1)选项排除法。
“六选五”阅读试题中, 有一个选项是干扰选项, 往往存在过度概括、概括不全、错误概括和无中生有等错误。可以采用排除的方法除去干扰项, 选出正确答案。首先通读文章, 确定文章的主题, 然后根据文章的大意, 确定哪些是文章段落的大意, 哪些是文章中涉及的事实描述, 根据文章的大意把选项进行归纳, 做起题来就会得心应手。
(2)整体验证法。
由于“六选五”阅读试题是一个整体, 所以有时觉得一些选项很容易混淆在一起。在完成所有选项的选择后, 再回过头来浏览全文, 通篇考虑一下文章主要表达的意思, 以确保答案正确无误。 3. 具体解析:
61. 本段主要讲的是, 今天不想做的事, 到了明天还是一样, 并且随着截 止日期越来越近, 压力会越来越大, 所以选__项。 62. 根据空格后的“Before you start, it seems that the task is unlikely to
be accomplished. ”可知, 开始一项工作前, 好像这项工作不可能完成,
但实际上你经历的困难比你预料的要少, 所以__项正确。 B F 63. 根据空格后的“If you leave your work until the night before it’s due,
you give up the possibility of getting input from your professor. . . during
office hours. ”可知, 如果你把任务拖延到了截止日期前的晚上, 你会错过 教授的帮助, 因为在办公时间教授会给学生提建议, 但是晚上不是他们的 办公时间, 显然__项正确。 64. 根据空格后的内容可知, 教授提前两周就安排写论文, 原因是你需要 时间来慢慢地形成观点, __项符合段落大意。 65. 等你把作业拖到最后时刻的时候, 你会发现时间不够用。run out(时 间、金钱等)用尽, 耗尽, 故__项正确。 E C A