【原文】3①In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job,could earn an average lifestyle. ②But, today, average is officially over. ③Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. ④It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. ⑤Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra-their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.
【題目】22. According to Paragraph 3, to be a successful employee, one has to______
【選項】[C] adopt an average lifestyle
【分析】本題目題干部分在問“要成為一名成功的雇員必須______”。一般題目的定位點會出現在表轉折的連接詞之后。第二句but之后說,“average is officially over”,即“平庸化已正式結束了”,對平庸持有的是否定的態度。而C選項卻說“要選用一種平庸的生活方法”,很顯然和文章內容是相反的。這就犯了和文章內容完全相反的錯誤。
【典型例題 2】
【原文】2①Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. ②We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. ③We hail them as Americans in the making, or brand them as aliens to be kicked out. ④That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it. ⑤We don’t need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. ⑥We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal. ⑦To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. ⑧We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.
【題目】27 It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US____
【選項】
[A] needs new immigrant categories.
[B] has loosened control over immigrants.
【分析】本題目題干部分在問“當前的美國移民體制______”。根據段落提示詞,直接定位到第二段,第一句“Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. ”即“如今我們對于移民太過于嚴格了”,而B選項“has loosened control over immigrants”中的loosen control“放松”了對于移民的控制,很顯然很文章內容相反。因此B很明顯是錯誤選項。第五句“We don’t need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories.”即“我們不需更多的移民分類,而是需要改變……”和A選項的“needs new immigrant categories.”“需要新的移民分類”剛好是相反的。