Informing Alex of his having been fired was quite an unpleasant ________ for Mr Brown.


  1. A.
    duty
  2. B.
    job
  3. C.
    task
  4. D.
    work
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解

In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh(法老)treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off.

Shades of that spirit spread over today’s conversations. Once a friend and I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked light-heartedly out the door, picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, ”O(jiān)h boy, bad day for a picnic. The weatherman says it’s going to rain.”I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report, for his while

Several months ago I was racing to catch  a him As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Grey hound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile ,”O(jiān)h that bus left five minutes ago.”Dreams of head-cutting!

  It’s not the news that makes someone angry. It’s the unsympathetic attitude with which it’s the unsympathetic attitude with which it’s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning professionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn’t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling of the receiver.

Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you’re tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn’t ready yet? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter mainly told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.

Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warming .Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, ” Oh, that’s all right I’ll catch the next one.” Big winners, when they bear bad news ,deliver bombs with the emotion the bombarded(被轟炸的)person is sure to have.

In Paragraph 1,the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to ____.

A. make a comparison      B. introduce a topic

C. describe a scene         D. offer an argument

In the writer’s opinion, his neighbor was ___.

A. friendly   B. warm-hearted    C. not considerate   D. not helpful

From “Dreams of head-cutting!”(Paragraph3),we learn that the writer___.

A. was mad at the sales agent

B. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh

C. wished that the sales agent would have had dreams

D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent’s head that night.

What is the main idea of the text?

A. Delivering bad news properly is important in communication.

B. Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.

C. Receiving bad news requires great courage.

D. Learning ancient traditions can be useful.

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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆江蘇省灌南高級中學(xué)高三上學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解

Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live, we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we give information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely to have our views challenged by other members of society.
Face to face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advanced imprinting, telecommunications photography, radio and television. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the transmission (傳輸) and reception of communications so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself is often almost eclipsed( 侵蝕) by international news.
No longer is the possession of information confined to(只限于) a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. For years ago people used to flock to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a programme that is being channeled into millions of homes.
Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information. The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.
Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the individual and to the society of which he is part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse(濫用). However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.
【小題1】In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the       of face-to-face contact in social setting.

A．natureB．limitationC．creativityD．usefulness
【小題2】It is implied in the passage that         .
A．local news used to be the only source of information
B．local news still takes a significant place
C．national news is becoming more popular
D．international news is the fastest transmitted news
【小題3】Which of the following statements is NOT true?       
A．Possessing information used to be a privilege.
B．Public libraries have replaced the private completely.
C．Communication means more than transmission.
D．Information influences ways of life and thinking.
【小題4】From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is       .
A．indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass media
B．happy about the flexible changes in the mass media
C．pessimistic about the future of the mass media
D．concerned about the wrong use of the mass media

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科目：高中英語 來源：2013-2014學(xué)年云南昆明三中滇池中學(xué)高二上學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空

 You must keep us ______ of how things are going here.

A. informing    B. informed    C. inform    D. to inform

 

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科目：高中英語 來源：福建省漳州市2010年高考模擬試題英語 題型：單項填空

We ________ you ever since you sent us the fax informing us of your date of arrival.

A．expected

B．were expecting

C．a(chǎn)re expecting

D．have been expecting

 

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科目：高中英語 來源：2011-2012學(xué)年江蘇省高三上學(xué)期階段測試英語試題 題型：填空題

Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients to speed recovery or to cover the coming of death? In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs; the need to protect patients from brutal news, to uphold a promise of secrecy or to advance the public interest.

What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months? Is it best to tell him the truth? If he asks, should doctors reject that he is ill, or minimize the gravity of the illness? Should they at least hide the truth until after the family vacation?

Doctors face such choices often. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patients’ own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.

Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill patients do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that informing them of risks destroys their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate faster, perhaps even commit suicide.

But other studies show that, contrary to the belief of many physicians, a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about serious illness, and feel cheated when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanely conveyed, helps patients cope with illness; help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.

There is an urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception. Yet the public has every reason to know the professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted, to spread, and to trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”

Title:  71  Or Not

Different  72

·Most doctors are in  73  of lying for the patients’ own sake.

·A great majority of patients  74  on being told the truth.

Reasons for  75  lying to patients

·Informing patients of the truth about their condition destroys their hope,  76  to recovering more slowly, or deteriorating faster, perhaps even  77  themselves.

Reasons  78  

lying to patients

·The truthful information helps patients to  79  their illness, help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.

·Most patients feel  80  when they learn that they have been misled.

 

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