1．The story I would like to tell happened about a year ago．I accepted a position in a company．John，an acquaintance of mine，told me much about the job and took my curriculum vitae （簡歷） to his supervisor．I did not refer to him as a friend because at the time we did not take part in activities together outside of work，nor did our wives．
The first week was fine．Nothing was obviously strange with John at first until the second week，when our communication began to get a little strange．John began making comments like"you would have had to pay an employment agency several hundred dollars for a job like this"．I soon forgot his words till the next day when he made another similar comment．Right then I started to really pay attention to what he meant．He acted as if I owed him money for helping me to get the job．
He began to get short with me and I had only been there for two weeks．He was supposed to train me in building our e-mail servers and setting up the entire standard monitor software．Instead，he went through the process so fast that even an experienced worker could hardly keep up．He would not slow down or check whether I was with him or not．If there was something wrong with a server，he would just buzz through the solution and not stop to say anything like"you might want to remember this．"I began to get very frustrated．
By the third week I began to get tired of his condescension （傲慢）．So I began to challenge him in a way that was only one to one．He would respond to a question of mine with a question or just make me repeat it，and then interrupt me．I began to hate him．Later I tried to avoid him as much as I could，so I wouldn't run into him．
He stopped me one day and asked me what had happened．I told him he was very condescending in his tone and manner．He asked me，"What can I do so that you will not feel like this way in the future？"I simply asked him to treat me with the same respect he would like to be treated with．He did it and we got along better gradually．I believed there was hope and eventually we would become friends and now we are．
58．Why didn't the author refer to John as a friend at first？A
A．They seldom spent free time together．B．They had only met for two weeks．
C．Their wives didn't know each other．D．They had many disagreements on work．
59．What did John most probably mean by saying the underlined sentence？C
A．The company he and the author worked in was very good．
B．The author was wise not to ask an employment agency for help．
C．He had helped the author get a job without a penny．
D．The author should have paid him several hundred dollars to express his gratitude．
60．Which of the following is TRUE according to the third and fourth paragraphs？C
A．John was an experienced and hard-working employee．
B．The author was very slow in learning new things．
C．John hardly lent an ear to what the author expressed．
D．The author gradually got accustomed to his work．
61．What's the author's purpose of sharing his story？B
A．To express his dissatisfaction with John．
B．To stress the importance of communication between colleagues．
C．To remind us what problems can occur at work．
D．To describe how to become qualified for a job．
分析 本文講了作者在朋友的幫助下，輕松地找到一份工作，但是此后朋友的表現(xiàn)讓作者很是不解，作者也慢慢疏遠他，最后通過兩個人的溝通交流，這才消除了誤會，又成了好朋友，這件事情告訴我們人與人之間的及時溝通是多么重要�。�
解答 58．答案 A 細節(jié)理解題 根據I did not refer to him as a friend because at the time we did not take part in activities together outside of work，nor did our wives．可知他們并不經常在一起，故答案為A
59．答案 C 推理判斷題 根據He acted as if I owed him money for helping me to get the job．可知，作者在John的幫助下，沒有花一分錢就得到了一份工作，故答案為C
60．答案 C 細節(jié)理解題 根據 Instead，he went through the process so fast that even an experienced worker could hardly keep up．He would not slow down or check whether I was with him or not．可知，John的講解非�？欤揪蜎]有耐心，更不會聽聽作者的疑問，故答案為C
61．答案 B 主旨歸納題 通讀全文可知，作者在朋友的幫助下，輕松地找到一份工作，但是此后朋友的表現(xiàn)讓作者很是不解，作者也慢慢疏遠他，最后通過兩個人的溝通交流，這才消除了誤會，又成了好朋友，這件事情告訴我們人與人之間的及時溝通是多么重要�。蚀鸢笧锽
點評 首先對原文材料迅速瀏覽，掌握全文的主旨大意．因為閱讀理解題一般沒有標題，所以，速讀全文，抓住中心主旨很有必要，在速讀的過程中，應盡可能多地捕獲信息材料．
其次，細讀題材，各個擊破．掌握全文的大意之后，細細閱讀文章后的問題，弄清每題要求后，帶著問題，再回到原文中去尋找、捕獲有關信息．
要善于抓住每段的主題句，閱讀時，要有較強的針對性．對于捕獲到的信息，要做認真分析，仔細推敲，理解透徹，只有這樣，針對題目要求，才能做到穩(wěn)、準．
