
【1】The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping- where you hand over notes and count out change in return- now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk, from a corner shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores- Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance- you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register, when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
【2】Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us. Isn’t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink(眨眼)of an eye? Doesn’t a wallet- that time-honored Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness- represent something that matters?
46. What is happening to the wallet?
A) It is disappearing.
B) It is being fattened.
C) It is becoming costly.
D) It is changing in style.
本文共3段,46题为细节题,解题时依据题文同序原则,46题定位在第一段。利用题干关键词wallet定位到第一段第一句,句中extinction 与选项A为同意信息对应。原文为钱包正在走向灭绝。与题干所问相同,钱包发生的事情是,指问钱包的现状,答案为A,正在消失。干扰项ACD信息并未在定位句出现,干扰性较弱,本题属于简单题。
47. How are business transactions done in big modern stores?
A) Individually.
B) Electronically.
C) In the abstract.
D) Via a cash register.
47题为细节题,依据题文同序原则,答案在46题答案后,因本文段落较少,依旧在第一段中寻找解题句。题干关键词信息transactions, in big modern stores定位到第一段倒数第二句,与the most cutting-edge retail stores, pay对应。根据文中信息,you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register排除D选项,原文为含义当你决定要付钱时,不需要站在收银台前。A单独完成B电子化付款C抽象方式无法确定答案。结合下句解释信息,The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa. 员工随身配备iPads,当你在沙发上放松时,他们可以收取付款。根据句意判断,B为正确答案。
48. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A) Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
B) The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.
C) Earning money is getting more difficult.
D) Spending money is so fast and easy.
48题为细节题,依据题文同序原则定位在第二段,题干中uncomfortable定位到第二句,与句中uneasy为同义替换信息。但句中作者对金钱概念的抽象化不安。在选项中没有明确对应信息。因此可以通过选项排除的方式确定答案,A在文中没有表现存钱的改变。B选项提到的the pleasing Friday-night feeling定位到第二段末句,句中并未提到这种感觉正在消失的信息。C 选项中earning money定位到第二段第四句,文中称挣钱并不是迅速简单的事。与选项称挣钱变得更难不符。D中spending money定位至第二段第三句,happen in half a blink of an eye与选项so fast and easy为同义替换。原文为,称花钱只是一眨眼的事情是不是有点奇怪呢?
46,47,48题具有很强的代表性,只要同学们在解题时首先定位准确,寻找文中与选项之间相似的信息,即可顺利做出答案。
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