【试题】
Passage 1
Do you have too much stuff? Are you dare we say it “I am tidy”? [16] Say hello to a TV show called “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo”, a home improvement show based on her widely popular book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. In the show, Marie Kondo acts as a tiny garbage fairy for messy people, visiting their houses to share the wisdom of the "KonMari" method. This method is simple in theory but can be endlessly complex in practice. You divide all the stuff in your house – all of it – into several categories, and then examine each item -- all of them – [17] to see if it sparks joy. If it does, you keep it. If it doesn't, you thank it, and neatly discard it.
So, is the TV show inspiring people to tidy up? Firsthand accounts seem to indicate a small wave of people bringing piles of donation bags to used good stores. One store received thousands of bags of used possessions in one day. January is usually the store’s slow season for donations, because it's cold and people don't want to bother. But not this January. People seemed determined to clean up their homes. [18] One used bookstore received a month's worth of books in donations in a week when a man gave over 50 boxes of books from his home. It seems Marie’s TV show is having a big impact after all.
Q16. What is Maire Kondo’s TV show about?
Q17. What things can be kept in one’s home, according to Maire Kondo?
Q18. What do we learn about one used bookstore this January?
【文章解析】
本篇短文为说明文，主要内容介绍了一个旨在帮助人们整理废旧物品的电视节目。在2016年四级改革后，说明文在篇章中出现过29篇左右，占比约53.7%。题目方面，三道题目难度适中，都属于细节题，通过关键词所听即所得和简单的同义替换定位，难度不大。词句方面，生词和长难句较少，听音理解较容易。
【题目解析】
Question 16:根据题干关键词tidying up和home定位到原文a home improvement show based on her widely popular book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.意为：一个基于她的广受欢迎的《整理的生活改变魔法》一书的改善家庭的电视节目。本题根据原词的所听即所得即可选出。
Question 17: 根据题干关键词happy定位到原文all of them – to see if it sparks joy. If it does, you keep it.意为：所有这些--看看它是否能够引起快乐。如果可以，就保留它。原文定位句中的关键词joy为选项中happy的同义替换。
Question 18: 根据题干关键词received, donated books定位到原文One used bookstore received a month's worth of books in donations in a week when a man gave over 50 boxes of books from his home. 意为：当一个男人从家里捐赠了50多箱书时，一个旧的书店在一周之内收到了一个月的书籍。本题根据原词的所听即所得即可选出。
