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5.Silence is unnatural to man.He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness.In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world,and he fears silence more than anything else.Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence.If he is introduced to another person,and a number of pauses occur in the conversation,he regards himself as a failure,a worthless person,and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox(喋喋不休唠叨的人).He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly,but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure.The aim of conversation is not,for the most part,to communicate ideas;it is to keep up the buzzing sound.There are,it must be admitted,different qualities of buzz;there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito.But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person.Most buzzing,fortunately,is pleasant to the ear,and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk.Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new.Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears,though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel.At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time,they just prove themselves to be successful conversationists.
56.According to the author,people make conversation toD.
A.exchange ideas
B.prove their value
C.achieve success in life
D.overcome their fear of silence
57.By"the buzzing of a fly"(Para.1),the author meansC.
A.the noise of an insect
B.a low whispering sound
C.meaningless talks
D.the voice of a chatterbox
58.According to the passage,people usually talk to their neighborsB.
A.about whatever they have prepared
B.about whatever they want to
C.in the hope of learning something new
D.in the hope of getting on well.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了人们为什么会交谈,大多数的交谈是害怕沉默而进行的毫无意义的交谈.
解答 56.D.细节推断题."Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence"说明人们谈话只是抑止对安静的恐惧;故选D.
57.C.词义解释题.The buzzing of a fly本意是苍蝇的嗡嗡声,根据题目中的"means"可知本题不是考察本意,而是引申意.根据后面一句"but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure"(人们加入谈话只是为了证明不是蜡像),说明谈话是没有意义的,无聊的;故选C.
58.B.细节推断题.根据第二段最后一句"He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors"(如果他有了新鲜的思路才加入邻居的谈话将是愚蠢的),可以推断出和邻居谈话无论谈什么都可以;故选B.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.
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