Question

Herbie Ricketts，52,lives in Thornton Heath，south London，and works as an electrician．He has been a listening volunteer with the Samaritans for 16 years.

Each caller is as individual as their circumstances and I didn’t realize so many people take their own lives until I became a Samaritan．And only then did the true nature of the work I was doing hit home.

I’ll always remember my first day on duty．The caller, stressed and depressed，told me he was suicidal(想自殺的)．He’d been too frightened to talk to the people around him，which is common．People are told they’ve got nothing to be upset about．Or, if they are already classified as having mental health issues，so they tell no one．How do you make sense of your feelings if you can’t tell someone? Just allowing people to say what they honestly feel helps them find a different perspective．I couldn’t offer him practical advice but I could support him emotionally．I helped him come to terms with his situation and make sense of some of the terrible emotions he was experiencing．Offering anonymity(匿名)and being nonjudgmental(無(wú)偏見(jiàn)的)allows people easily hurt to explore their thoughts without fear or worry．I left him in an emotionally safe place，ensuring he knew 1 wasn’t rejecting or abandoning him．I let him know we were still there if he needed us，explaining that it might not be me on the other end of the phone but another Samaritan who could also support．

Suicidal people will ring with issues like drug use or loneliness．If you look at it from the perspective of, “How can I solve this? ”you can become，like them，at a loss．Every cell in your body wants to offer solutions，but as a Samaritan I’m not there to sort their problems out．I listen and will support them when they can’t see any further than tomorrow．When the phone goes silent，we stay with that caller as long as we possibly can，which could be two or three hours．

The shifts are up to four hours long．When it doesn’t go so well，I offload to my colleague，so I don’t carry home a heavy heart．Being a Samaritan has greatly improved my life．I’m calmer and become a supportive listener, which has also improved my relationships．But being a wonderful Samaritan doesn’t make you a wonderful parent or wonderful partner—I wish it did．

1.What does the underlined sentence in the passage probably mean?

A．Those who called in had their unique nature．

B．I got to realize the value of being a Samaritan．

C．It was common that many people committed suicide．

D．I was determined to be a Samaritan at home．

2.Some people choose not to tell others about their feelings mainly because they________.

A．a(chǎn)ctually have nothing to worry about

B．a(chǎn)re too shy to expose themselves to others

C．suffer from serious mental health problems

D．find no supportive listeners around them

3.Samaritans usually help callers by________.

A．sorting out their problems

B．providing practical advice for them

C．offering them emotional support

D．a(chǎn)sking questions such as“How can I solve this? ”

4.We may infer from the passage that________.

A．being a good Samaritan takes patience

B．Samaritans are easily affected by callers

C．callers are always successfully comforted

D．people kill themselves for lack of listening volunteers

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要講述了在撒瑪利亞存在著許多人都去用不同的方式選擇自殺的事件，而原因就在于他們不善于傾聽(tīng)別人的心聲，給需要幫助的人提供不了行動(dòng)上的支持，使得那些需要幫助的人根本就不去告訴別人自己的想法，導(dǎo)致很多人精神或者心理壓力過(guò)大選擇自殺。而這就告訴我們我們需要很好的耐心去學(xué)會(huì)傾聽(tīng)，這才是成為一名好的撒瑪利亞人的迫切需求。

1. 推理判斷題，本文第二段Each caller is as individual as their circumstances and I didn’t realize so many people take their own lives until I became a Samaritan．And only then did the true nature of the work I was doing hit home. 在每個(gè)調(diào)用方是個(gè)體的情況下，我沒(méi)有意識(shí)到那么多人自殺，直到我成為了 Samaritan.并僅僅是我正在工作的本質(zhì)所在�？梢酝茢喑鑫乙庾R(shí)到自己成為一名撒瑪利亞人的真正的價(jià)值。只有B選項(xiàng)與其意相近，故選B。

2. 推理判斷題，本文第三段中People are told they’ve got nothing to be upset about．Or, if they are already classified as having mental health issues，so they tell no one．人們被告知他們一無(wú)所有而感到沮喪，否則，如果他們被歸為有心理健康問(wèn)題一類(lèi)人時(shí)，他們因此就不會(huì)告訴任何人。以及Just allowing people to say what they honestly feel helps them find a different perspective．I couldn’t offer him practical advice but I could support him emotionally．只是允許人們說(shuō)真實(shí)的感受去幫助他們找到不同的視角、觀點(diǎn)，我不能提到實(shí)際可行的建議，但是可以在情感上支持他們，可以推斷出人們找不到在行動(dòng)上支持他們的聽(tīng)者。故選D。

3. 細(xì)節(jié)理解題，本文中第三段Just allowing people to say what they honestly feel helps them find a different perspective．I couldn’t offer him practical advice but I could support him emotionally．只是允許人們說(shuō)真實(shí)的感受去幫助他們找到不同的視角、觀點(diǎn)，我不能提到實(shí)際可行的建議，但是可以在情感上支持他們，可知選C。

4. 主旨大意題，本文最后一段最后一句話(huà)But being a wonderful Samaritan doesn’t make you a wonderful parent or wonderful partner—I wish it did．但成為一名很棒的撒瑪利亞人不會(huì)輸于你的精彩的父母或優(yōu)秀的合作伙伴 — 我希望我可以做到�？梢酝茢喑龀蔀橐幻�好的撒瑪利亞人需要有耐心，去傾聽(tīng)和幫助別人。所以選A。

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