Question

【题目】Maybe you have seen this in schools: Some students study nearly all the time but they just pass their exams, while some others may spend much【1】time on their books but do much better in exams. How could this happen? People used to think that hard work is the only way to success. But now they understand that smart work can make them successful, too.

Hard workers don’t【2】working for long hours, while smart workers always think of several different answers to these questions. “Why should I suffer this?” “Isn’t there a better way to do this?” Thanks to these people, we can use computers instead of the abacus now.【3】in every field is the direct result of “try to find a better way” by smart workers. There was a large soap factory in Japan. Once it received an unusual letter from someone who【4】that there was no soap in the soapbox he bought.

How could empty soapbox go out of the factory? The engineers checked the producing and packing. The producing was fine, but in about one in ten thousand cases, the packing machines let an empty soapbox go. There was no need to spend a lot of money repairing the machine for such a small problem. The engineer soon worked out a【5】. He put a large X-ray (X射线) machine and two large computers to find out the empty soapbox.【6】teaching the workers how to use it, he sat down in his seat, exhausted.

“Sir, we could have solved the problems in a much simpler and cheaper way.” a worker said.

“Really? How?” “We can put a huge fan near the packing machine. The wind coming from the fan will blow away the empty boxes and leave the other【7】with soap. There would be no need for an X-ray machine, two computers, and operating by workers.”

See, this is smart work. In order to succeed, we should not only learn from the engineers’ hard work, but also think smart like the workers.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】less

【2】mind

【3】Progress

【4】complained

【5】solution

【6】After

【7】ones

【解析】试题分析：这篇短文主要通过日本一个生产个人运用聪明才智解决生产中遇到的难题的事例，说明努力并非成功的唯一途径，智慧同样可以起到事半功倍的效果。

【1】句意：然而其他一些在书本上花费时间更少但在考试中做的更好。根据句意及所给首字母，此空应是 less。

【2】句意：努力工作的工人不介意长时间的工作。根据句意及首字母提示“介意”是 mind。

【3】句意：每个领域的进步都是由聪明的工人的试图找到更好的办法的直接结果。根据句意及所给首字母提示此空应是Progress。

【4】句意：一次他收到了来自某个人的不同寻常的信，他抱怨说在他买的肥皂盒里没有肥皂。根据句意及首字母提示此空应填complained。

【5】句意：这位工程师很快想出了一个解决方案。根据句意及首字母提示“方案”是solution。

【6】句意：在教给了工人们怎样使用它之后，他坐在座位上，精疲力尽。根据句意及首字母提示“在……之后”应是After。

【7】句意： 来自风扇的风会吹走空盒子并留下有肥皂盒子。根据句意此空是指代盒子，根据首字母应用ones。