2011考研英語閱讀新題型(排序題)模擬題及解析

　　Directions:The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order for Questions 41-45,you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A-E to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)

　　[A]“I just don’t know how to motivate them to do a better job. We’re in a budget crunch and I have absolutely no financial rewards at my disposal. In fact, we’ll probably have to lay some people off in the near future. It’s hard for me to make the job interesting and challenging because it isn’t—it’s boring, routine paperwork, and there isn’t much you can do about it.

　　[B]“Finally, I can’t say to them that their promotions will hinge on the excellence of their paperwork. First of all, they know it’s not true. If their performance is adequate, most are more likely to get promoted just by staying on the force a certain number of years than for some specific outstanding act. Second, they were trained to do the job they do out in the streets, not to fill out forms. All through their career it is the arrests and interventions that get noticed.

　　[C]“I’ve got a real problem with my officers. They come on the force as young, inexperienced men, and we send them out on the street, either in cars or on a heat. They seem to like the contact they have with the public, the action involved in crime prevention, and the apprehension of criminals. They also like helping people out at fires, accidents, and other emergencies.

　　[D]“Some people have suggested a number of things like using conviction records as a performance criterion. However, we know that’s not fair—too many other things are involved. Bad paperwork increases the chance that you lose in court, but good paperwork doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll win. We tried setting up team competitions based on the excellence of the reports, but the guys caught on to that pretty quickly. No one was getting any type of reward for winning the competition, and they figured why should they labor when there was no payoff.”

　　[E]“The problem occurs when they get back to the station. They hate to do the paperwork, and because they dislike it, the job is frequently put off or done inadequately. This lack of attention hurts us later on when we get to court. We need clear, factual reports. They must be highly detailed and unambiguous. As soon as one part of a report is shown to be inadequate or incorrect, the rest of the report is suspect. Poor reporting probably causes us to lose more cases than any other factor.

　　[F]“So I just don’t know what to do. I’ve been groping in the dark in a number of years. And I hope that this seminar will shed some light on this problem of mine and help me out in my future work.”

　　[G]A large metropolitan city government was putting on a number of seminars for administrators, managers and/or executives of various departments throughout the city. At one of these sessions the topic to be discussed was motivation—how we can get public servants motivated to do a good job. The difficulty of a police captain became the central focus of the discussion.

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　　G 41 42 43 44 45 F

　　答案詳解

　　41. 【解析】[C] 按照答題步驟，我們首先應當對已知信息進行研讀，即閱讀首尾段，歸納語篇的基本結構，找出答題的線索。首段說的是整個文章的背景，一個大都市的市政廳舉行全市各部門管理、行政人員的研討會，其中有一個研討會的主題是如何發(fā)動公務員做好工作。這個研討會上一個警察局警長的難題成了討論的焦點。尾段是一個引語：So I just don’t know what to do. I’ve been groping in the dark in a number of years. And I hope that this seminar will shed some light on this problem of mine and help me out in my future work(所以我不知道該怎么辦。多年來我一直在黑暗中探索。我希望這次研討會能給我的難題帶來些啟發(fā)，能幫我應對未來的工作)。很明顯，這是發(fā)言的總結句。結合第一段的內(nèi)容，我們可以知道，引號里的話是警察局警長的話，而整篇文章主要講的是他面臨的難題。

　　接著，我們看[A]到[E]段，哪一段是發(fā)言的起始段呢?這就要看是哪一段把討論的話題引入。我們可以主要看每段的第一句話。我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)[C]段第一句話直截了當?shù)攸c出話題：I’ve got a real problem with my officers(警員們現(xiàn)在出現(xiàn)了問題)，而且與首段的最后一句The difficulty of a police captain became the central focus of the discussion(這個研討會上一個警察局警長的難題成了討論的焦點)連接自然，因為首段的尾句提到了警察局長的difficulty(困難)，后面的段落肯定會對這一困難作出解釋，因此[C]段中的problem和首段的difficulty呼應，應當是正確答案。

　　42. 【解析】[E] [C]段的第一句話I’ve got a real problem with my officers(警員們現(xiàn)在出現(xiàn)了問題)和后面的句子They come on the force as young, inexperienced men, and we send them out on the street, either in cars or on a heat. They seem to like the contact they have with the public, the action involved in crime prevention, and the apprehension of criminals. They also like helping people out at fires, accidents, and other emergencies(他們到大街上巡邏……，他們喜歡與公眾交流……，他們也喜歡樂于助人……)兩者在語義上是轉(zhuǎn)折的。作者沒有直接說警員們的問題是什么，而是在提出問題后先對他們進行了贊揚，但贊揚過后肯定要提出存在的問題是什么。按邏輯順序，下一段落應該提出職員中存在的問題。按照這樣的思路，我們在剩下的段落中尋找，可以發(fā)現(xiàn)下一段選[E]連接最自然。[C]段先表揚職員對公眾的事積極、熱心，但是“The problem occurs when they get back to the station”(一回到警局問題就出現(xiàn)了)。同時，從詞匯銜接上來看，[E]段中的單詞get back和上一段落中的out構成了對應關系，說明了警員們在警句外面和里面的不同表現(xiàn)，因此從這兩個方面來看，選項[E]是正確答案。

　　43. 【解析】[A] 選項[E]主要陳述了警員們存在的問題以及導致的后果：They hate to do the paperwork …Poor reporting probably cause us to lose more cases than any other factor(他們不喜歡寫公文……更多時候是因為報告寫得不好而在法庭上輸了官司)。根據(jù)選項[E]最后一句話的語義，接下來作者要談論的問題一定和此問題有關，因此可以對比剩余的三個選項[A]、[B]和[D]，首先可以排除選項[D] Some people have suggested a number of things like using conviction records as a performance criterion…，因為這個選項提出了評判警員的標準，是一個解決問題的辦法，和前面提到的問題以及導致的結果在語義上不銜接。

　　比較選項[A]和[B]，選項[A]的首句I just don’t know how to motivate them to do a better job，提出了警察局長在這個問題上的困惑，單詞better是一個比較級，和前一個段落末句中的poor相呼應， 因此是正確答案。

　　44. 【解析】[B] 從語義上來看，選項[A]是在說明警長的所遇到的問題和困惑，能夠和選項[A]銜接的現(xiàn)在只剩下[B]和[D]。選項中[B]是解釋無法實施解雇措施;選項[D]是說將撰寫報告作為警員表現(xiàn)標準沒有效果，可以看出，[B]和上段聯(lián)系更為緊密，說了措施后馬上就說出這種措施的不可實施的方面。

　　45.【解析】[D]現(xiàn)在只剩下選項[D]。從文章最后一段，即選項[F]來看，此選項主要敘述的是警長向大家求助的信息，而選項[D]的開頭的兩句 Some people have suggested a number of things like using conviction records as a performance criterion. However, we know that’s not fair—too many other things are involved是說雖然有人提出了建議，但這些措施是不可能被實施的。因為措施無效才會向別人求助，從邏輯關系看，選項[D]和最后一段，即選項[F]形成了因果關系，因此是正確答案。