Passage 3
(2006 四川 C)
Juanito Estrella has been a housekeeping manager on the US-based large passenger ship Carnival Spirit for 18 months and feels he has found the suitable position in his career (職業(yè)). He has always wanted to travel. “I guess I am a really restless spirit. I like traveling, so when the chance came, I jumped at it,” he says.
The chance came in the form of a newspaper advertisement for work on cruise ships (游船). At the time Estrella was the housekeeping manager at a Melbourne hotel. He applied and, after two interviews, a medical check and police clearance, the job was his.
Estrella is responsible (負(fù)責(zé)的) for the cleanliness of the ship, making sure that 160 crew work properly. “I enjoy it because there is no other work—you wake up each day in a different place and a different culture. It’s exciting when you go to the next country and you don’t understand the language,” he says.
Estrella likes being busy and getting to know people from all over the world. The 1,000 crew come from 94 countries, and Estrella has learnt Spanish and a little Croatian.
But there is a downside. “You cannot get really drunk...because you have safety responsibilities to yourself and others,” he says. “You don’t really think about home. You start to think about home only when you get closer to your vacation and wonder what you’ll be doing.”
Life on the ship is anything but cruising. Estrella and his fellows work at least 10 hours a day, seven days a week. He warns the job is not for everybody. “You have to love being busy and be prepared to work every day—and to give up drinking too much alcohol.” In his spare time, if the ship sails into a port, Estrella explores it, otherwise he works out in the crew’s gym, goes on the internet or calls home.
1. What do we know about Estrella?
A. He is very fond of traveling. B. He doesn’t drink wine now.
C. He cannot speak a foreign language. D. He used to be a housekeeping manager.
2. The underlined word “downside” in paragraph 5 probably means ______.
A. disappointment B. disadvantage
C. failure D. loss
3. Which of the following is true?
A. Estrella doesn’t often feel homesick because of his work.
B. The work on the ship is not suitable for a married person.
C. Estrella can find no other job except the one on the ship.
D. The people on the ship are from 94 countries.
4. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that life on the ship is ______.
A. not a tiring journey at all B. just an interesting voyage
C. far from a voyage for pleasure D. more than a pleasant travel by sea
【重點(diǎn)詞匯】
housekeeping n. 家務(wù)管理US-based 總部設(shè)在美國(guó)的
restless adj. 得不到休息的apply v. 申請(qǐng)
clearance n.安全檢查police clearance 保安審查
crew n.全體船員Croatian n. 克羅地亞語(yǔ)
downside n.不利方面alcohol n. 酒精
anything but 絕不是in one’s spare time 在某人的空閑時(shí)間
【疑難長(zhǎng)句】
In his spare time, if the ship sails into a port, Estrella explores it, otherwise he works out in the crew’s gym, goes on the internet or calls home.
(參考譯文)在空余時(shí)間里， 如果船駛進(jìn)了碼頭， Estrella就會(huì)去碼頭參觀(guān)。否則， 他會(huì)在員工健身房健身， 上網(wǎng)或者給家里打電話(huà)。
【答案解析】
1. A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題目問(wèn)的是我們從文章中可以知道有關(guān)Estrella的什么事。 選項(xiàng)A， Estrella非常喜歡旅游; 選項(xiàng)B， 他現(xiàn)在不喝酒; 選項(xiàng)C， 他不會(huì)說(shuō)外語(yǔ); 選項(xiàng)D， 他曾經(jīng)是一名家政經(jīng)理。根據(jù)原文第一段 “He has always wanted to travel” 可以推斷出正確答案為A。
2. B 詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)原文But there is a downside來(lái)看， 上文講的是在船上工作的優(yōu)點(diǎn)， 而下面講的則是船上工作不好的方面， 也就是不能喝醉酒。 選項(xiàng)A， 失望; 選項(xiàng)B， 不利方面; 選項(xiàng)C， 失敗; 選項(xiàng)D， 損失?？梢?jiàn)選項(xiàng)B比較符合文章含義。
3. A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。選項(xiàng)A， Estrella的工作使他不經(jīng)常想家。文章倒數(shù)第二段說(shuō)“你不會(huì)真正想家， 當(dāng)假日臨近， 開(kāi)始考慮假期該做什么的時(shí)候， 你才開(kāi)始想家”。選項(xiàng)B， 船上的工作不適合已婚人士。文中沒(méi)有提到這一點(diǎn)， 這是無(wú)中生有了。選項(xiàng)C， Estrella除了船上這份工作， 找不到其他的工作。明顯錯(cuò)誤， Estrella在上船之前有其他的工作。選項(xiàng)D， 船上的人來(lái)自94個(gè)國(guó)家。文章第四段第二句話(huà)明確提到了船上1000名員工來(lái)自94個(gè)國(guó)家， 但這并不代表people on the ship來(lái)自94個(gè)國(guó)家， 這是偷梁換柱了。因此， 正確答案為A。
4. C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題目問(wèn)的是最后一段中， 作者認(rèn)為船上的生活是什么樣子的。選項(xiàng)A， 旅途一點(diǎn)都不勞累; 選項(xiàng)B， 非常有意思的旅行; 選項(xiàng)C， 絕不是單純的尋樂(lè)旅行; 選項(xiàng)D， 遠(yuǎn)不止一次愉悅的海上航行。文章最后說(shuō) Life on the ship is anything but cruising. “船上的生活絕對(duì)不是游玩?！?他們每周工作7天， 每天工作10個(gè)小時(shí)， 非常勞累。因此可以推斷答案C比較貼近原文的意思。
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