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In ancient Egypt ，the pharaoh(法老) treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off.
Shades of that spirit spread over today? s conversations.Once a friend and I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked lightheartedly out the door，picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, “Oh boy, bad day for a picnic. The weatherman says it? s going to rain.” I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report, for his smile.
Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus.As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Greyhound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile, “Oh that bus left five minutes ago.”It? s not the news that makes someone angry. It? s the unsympathetic attitude with which it? s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning professionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn? t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone.Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling of the receiver.
Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you are tired from a long flight,
has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn? t ready yet? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter merrily told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.
Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warning.Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, “Oh, that ? s all right. I?ll catch the next one. ”Big winners, when they bear bad news, deliver bombs with the emotion the bombarded (被轟炸的) person is sure to have.
[語篇解讀] 當(dāng)我們告訴別人不好的消息時，我們應(yīng)該以同情的表情和語氣來表達。
1.In Paragraph 1 ，the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to________.
A. make a comparison C. describe a scene
B. introduce a topic D. offer an argument
[解析] 邏輯推理題。從第一段可知，作者用“法老的故事”來引出文章的話題，所以答案選B。
[答案] B
2.In the writer? s opinion, his neighbor was________.
A. friendly
B. warmhearted
D. not helpful
C. not considerate
[解析] 事實細節(jié)題。文章中第二段，作者的鄰居高興地向作者傳達一個壞消息，他沒有考慮作者的感受，由此可知作者的鄰居很不會體貼人，考慮事情不周全。
[答案] C
3.From “Dreams of headcutting!” ( Paragraph 3 ), we learn that the writer________.
A. was mad at the sales agent
B. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh
C. wished that the sales agent would have bad dreams
D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent? s head that night
[解析] 邏輯推理題。從文章第三段推斷可知，作者對售票員的這種行為非常憤怒，所以答案選A。
[答案] A
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A. Delivering bad news properly is important in communication.
B. Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.
C. Receiving bad news requires great courage.
D. Learning ancient traditions can be useful.
[解析] 主旨大意題。本文告訴我們“在日常交流中，當(dāng)向別人傳達壞消息時應(yīng)該委婉地表達出來，以照顧到對方的感受，這在日常交流中是非常重要的”。由此可知答案為A項。
[答案] A
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