大家好，我在在职硕士考试工程硕士GCT中挑选几篇文章，分别训练不同的阅读技能，这篇文章重点训练大家的“合并同类项”技能-利用选项的同义，反义和包容关系来确定备选答案。大家做做试试看如何，重点不是答案的正确，是是否能看出合并同类项，合并同类项明天公布。

Happy hours are not necessarily happy , nor do they last for an hour , but they have become a part of the ritual of the office worker and businessman.

On weekdays in pubs and bars throughout America, there is the late afternoon happy hour. The time may vary from place to place, but usually it is held from four to seven. After the workday is finished, office workers in large cities and small towns take a relaxing pause and do not go directly home. They head off instead for the nearest bar or pub to be with friends, co-workers and colleagues. Within minutes the pub is filled to capacity with businessmen and secretaries, office clerks and stock executives. They gather around the bar like birds around a fountain or forest animals around a watering hole and chat about the trifles of office life or matters more personal. This is their desert garden, the place to relieve the day’s stress at the office.

At these happy hours, social binding occurs between people who share the same workplace or similar professions. They may chat about each other or talk about a planed project that has yet to meet a deadline. In this sense, these places become extensions of the workplace and constitute a good portion of one’s social life.

1.       For office workers and businessmen the happy hour is their______

A. professional requirement                         B. regular practice              

C. refreshing break                                           D. unpaid work

2.       Happy hours are held because office workers need to ___________

A. have a good rest after work                    B. stay away from household work

C. make new friends                                  D. celebrate their achievements

3.       The phrase “filled to capacity “ in Paragraph 2 means the pub is __________

A. too crowded                                                 B. rather entertaining

C. completely full                                      D. very noisy

4.       Happy hours contribute to office workers’_____________

A. cooperation in society                             B. promotion in their company

C. connection in society                              D. loyalty to their company

5.       Which of the following statements is NOT ture?

A. The happy hour is a social  gathering in America.

B. People avoid talking about work at happy hours.   

C. Happy hours are held on weekdays only.

D. People exchange work experience at happy hours.

解析

第3题可以合并同类项。答案A，C,D的含义非常一致。A选项和C选项的区别在于，A选项有作者的态度，因为TOO表达否定的含义，但是原文中没有该含义的出现。而C选项就没有该含义。所以答案选C。第4题也可以合并同类项。其中A和C可以合并。在原文中找到该题的位置发现，并列考点串联，如connection---binding, share, similar, each other这些考点词。答案选C。 第5题中的B和D可以合并同类项。B中的avoid就是否定词，等于NOT，和D的含义正好是相反的，答案应该选B。第1题B，第2题A。

Lazy? Shy? Live in a cave ? Those might not be positive attributes for the average human, but they sure are good for animals trying to survive in a changing environment. According to a new study, beasts that hibernate (冬眠) or crawl into holes are less likely to be listed as endangered than those that don’t.

Following up a previous study on extinct animals, which showed that species exhibiting “sleep or hide”(SLOH) behaviors did better than others , the researchers wanted to see if the same was true of modern creatures like moles and bears. To find out if our more timid animals have a leg up in the survival game, researchers made a master list of 443 sleep-or-hide mammals.

With their list in hand, the team compared their 443 to the “red list” of endangered species published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature . As suspected, a sleepy or hiding animal was less likely to be on the red list than a regular animal, and a red-list animal was also less likely to be a SLOH-er.

This makes a lot of sense, as animals that hide away in a cave or a tree hole are protected by their physical shelters from a variable environment outside , while hibernators enjoy a flexible metabolism(新陈代谢) that can help them adapt to a changing climate.

16. On the list of extinct animals studied , there were_______.

A. fewer SLOH-ers than regular animals        B. more SLOH-ers than expected

C. as many SLOH-ers as regular animals        D. hardly any SLOH-ers

17. The phrase “a leg up” in Paragraph 2 probable means “_______”

A. an instinct       B. an advantage               C. a fight                  D. a chance  

18. The study of modern creatures__________.

A. is unrelated to the study of extinct animals

B. finds evidence missing in the study of extinct animals

C. has findings similar to those of the study of extinct animals

D. reveals a different pattern from the study of extinct animals

19. According to the passage, red-list animals are more likely to ___________

A. be lazy              B. be timid                    C. live long                D. sleep less

20. In the last paragraph the author ___________.

A. compares the behaviors of sleepers and hiders

B. offers an explanation for the survival of sleepers and hiders

C. analyzes how a changing environment affects SLOH-ers

D. emphasizes what can be learned from SLOH-ers

合并同类项

16.AC; 17.NONE; 18.ACD; 19.NONE; 20. AB;CD.

正确答案

16.A17.B18.C19.D20.B