Section C Passage One

　　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.

　　篇章一介绍了一档电视节目，该节目中主持人Marie Kondo会去拜访那些放置物品杂乱无章的人，并分享自己的整理小技巧，即将所有的物品分类，并选择将使得你快乐的物品保留，其余的扔掉。针对于该节目是否真的有作用，本文作者认为确实对人们的生活有很大的影响，它带来了一大波捐赠热潮，很多人会将对自己无用的物品捐掉，甚至二手书店也收到了来自一位男士的五十箱书。

　　Q16: What is Maire Kondo’s TV show about?

　　答案：【A】Tidying up one’s home.

　　解析：第16题问的是Maire Kondo的电视节目关于什么主题，在文章的开头，引入该节目的名称时就可以直接对应选项答案，“Tidying Up with Marie Kondo”, 该节目教人们如何tidy up收拾东西，并在下文提到Maire会visiting their houses，上下关联可知这台电视节目就是收拾家里杂七杂八的物品。

　　Q17: What things can be kept in one’s home, according to Maire Kondo?

　　答案：【C】Things that make one happy.

　　解析：第17题是本文的一个难题，文章中没有明确的出题信号词，且做了同义转换，要求对文章内容有把握才能选对正确答案。Maire的做法是让人们去examine each item to see if it sparks joy.检查每一样物品是否还能激发快乐，joy与选项的happy做了同义转换。

　　Q18: What do we learn about one used bookstore this January?

　　答案：【B】It received an incredibly large number of donated books.

　　解析：当文章中出现数字时往往伴随着同义转换的考点，所以当文章中出现a man gave over 50 boxes of books from his home一男子向二手书店捐出了50箱书，此处的50 boxes of books与选项large number of books大量的书做了转换。