题文
My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company.
I’d be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges — those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about f
ifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successf
ul ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.
I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed (揭示) a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”
Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs — being a postman is another one I still desire — demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.
小题1:The writer applied for the job chiefly because _________.A．he wanted to work in the centre of LondonB．he could no longer afford to live without oneC．he was not interested in any other available jobD．he had received some suitable training小题2:The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _________.A．he often traveled undergroundB．he had written many poemsC．he could deal with difficult situations D．he had worked in a company小题3:The length of his interview meant that _________.A．he was not going to be offered the jobB．he had not done well in the intelligence testC．he did not like the interviewer at allD．he had little work experience to talk about小题4:What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?A．How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be. B．How difficult it is to be a poet.C．How unsuitable he was for the job.D．How badly he did in the interview.小题5:What’s the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?A．He was very aggressive. B．He was unhappy with his job.C．He was quite inefficient. D．He was rather unsympathetic. 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
解析
。小题1:考查学生对信息进行加工和处理的能力。第1段提到：Obviously I’d be overqualified
but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges…, 此外，
文章最后也提到：I was also short of cash. 故选B。
小题2:考查学生对信息进行加工和处理的能力。第1段提到：I could see myself being
cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. “……在危急时刻能应付自如的人，做保安其素质当然
绰绰有余了”，故选C。
小题3:考查细节。第2段提到：Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. … Mine wa
s the only one that lasted a minute and a half. 故选Ａ。
小题4:考查推理能力。最后一段提到：Actually, such jobs … demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. 这类工作需要有一种基本的责任意识，而惯于空想者没有这种意识，故选C。
小题5:考查概括能力。第3段提到作者认为面试官的结束语（You’ve failed the
psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.）反映了他缺乏关爱、无动于衷（His
closing statement, I thought, revealed (揭示) a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as
a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway.）。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“My newly-rented smal.....”主要考查你对 [社会现象类阅读 ]考点的理解。社会现象类阅读
社会现象类阅读概念：
这类文章通过写人记事来揭示文章的主题，显示其社会意义，一般采用顺序或倒叙来叙述。题目经常是一些细节问题。考查的方面可以是原因和其中引发的思考。
社会现象类阅读解题技巧：
这类文章通过写人记事来揭示文章的主题，显示其社会意义，一般采用顺序或倒叙来叙述。题目经常是一些细节问题。考查的方面可以是原因和其中引发的思考。阅读这类文章要理清思路。
1、浏览试题，明确要求。
在阅读文章前，最好先浏览一下文章后面的题干和选项。知道了问题后再去看文章，可使思路更敏捷，而且也便于阅读时留意文中出现的与选项有关的信息。
2、通读全文，抓住主要内容。
在不影响理解的前提下，尽可能地阅读以便在尽可能短的时间内理解文章或段落的内容。阅读时，如遇到不熟悉的单词、词组或一时看不懂的句子，不要停下来苦思冥想，继续读下去，通过上下文的词语和句子可能就理解了。
3、抓住中心思想和段落大意。
通读全文时，要特别注意主题句。每篇文章或每个段落都有与文章有关的句子，尤其是科技、政论性文章的主题句一般都在文章的开头或结尾，插在中间的很少。所以，文章的第一段或开头的第一、二个句子往往包含着文章的中心思想、作者的意图或全文的概述，因此要特别注意，彻底理解。
4、有针对性地仔细阅读，找寻所需信息。
在前面的基础上，可进行有针对性地阅读了。把与问题无关的内容一扫而过，而对于和问题有关的内容认真阅读，还可以用笔在下面做出记号。再把这些信息与问题的要求结合起来，逐条分析，综合判断，找出正确答案。
5、进行合理的推理判断。
对文章有了全面的了解之后，可以按照文章要求以及上下文之间的关系，做出推理判断。在进行推理判断的时候，需要综合考虑句型、语法、句子之间的逻辑关系、文化背景等方面的因素。
6、认真复读，验证答案。
要用全文的中心思想统帅各个题目，研究其内在联系和逻辑关系，并依次审核那些还未打上的题目，确保理解无误。
