银行招聘网-银行招聘英语备考（八）

Passage 1

Editor’s Welcome

Welcome to Street life’s live and intimate celebration of the 200th edition of ---1---.

In the next few pages, we have a special feature to let you meet the luminaries who have made great contributions to our magazine. These special people will also entertain you this Friday, October 27, at the Street Life 200th Edition Gala Celebration at Queen’s Quay, Toronto. If you can’t physically be there tonight, settle back, and enjoy our magazine, and try to ---2--- some of these talented artists the next time they are in your area.

So as the curtains go up on the night of nights – street Life’s celebration of 200 fabulous editions – please raise you glass to Toronto’s most popular magazine.

Here’s to ---3--- 200 editions!

Carl Stevens

Carl Stevens

1. A. publish

B. publishing

C. to publish

D. to be published

【答案】B。解析：横线前有介词of, 因此横线处应填入名词，动名词或名词短语，答案为B。

2. A. win

B. gain

C. earn

D. catch

【答案】D。解析：句意为下次这些才华横溢的艺术家出现在你居住的地区时，一定要一睹他们的风采，故选D。

3. A. other

B. another

C. one another

D. each other

【答案】B。解析：句子想要表达“希望今后再接再厉，发行期数再突破200”的意思。故选B。

Passage 2

As a startup founder, my daily tasks include everything from long-term strategic planning to approving team outings and company culture initiatives. Day after day, things inevitably come up that need to get handled ASAP. But I've also learned that if you don't have a strategy for making time for those bigger ambitions and your truly lofty goals, they'll simply never get done. And that means you won't make the progress that's really going to move your business forward.

1. FIND YOUR MOST PRODUCTIVE TIME

Face it: You aren't cranking out work at absolute peak productivity for the entire day. Instead, there are likely certain times when you're at your most focused and other times when your energy wanes. That's normal. Maybe for you, it's bright and early in the morning, before anyone else arrives in the office, when you do your best work. Whenever it is, identify that chunk of time (even if it's only an hour!) when you feel your most productive, and then reserve it on your calendar like you would do any other important meeting. You need to protect this block of time from intrusion — it isn't optional. That way you're guaranteed to have a regular, designated period when you can at least get started on those bigger to-dos.

2. CREATE PHYSICAL BARRIERS

Nobody works in a vacuum. We all have to collaborate with others to some degree or another. And it's the people we work closest with whom we tend to put first — we want to be readily available if they need our help. But there are times you need to tune out the distractions and focus if you're going to get any meaningful work done.

One of the most effective methods I've found is to put physical barriers between us. I'll work from a conference room or even from home on occasion in order to get some literal space from people needing "just one quick thing."

4. What is the article mainly about?

A. How to prevent distractions and focus on big issues

B. How to win competitions and get promotions

C. How to manage your time well

D. How to overcome different challenges in the office

5. The word "wanes" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. Disappear B. Diminish C. Increase D. Peak

6. According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is the "chunk of time" the author is talking about?

A. Bright and early in the morning B. Late at night

C. When you are most focused D. When there are no distractions

7. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

A. Sometimes we have to decline colleagues' requests.

B. People in the office love helping others.

C. You have to be readily available in the office.

D. People cannot work in a vacuum.

8. What may the author discuss later?

A. The author may put forward another suggestion.

B. The author may talk about the administration system.

C. The author may discuss the office environments.

D. The author may teach the readers to make a timetable.

4.【答案】A。解析：主旨题。文章第一段讲到，如果缺少管理时间的策略，那么"你"就无法实现你的雄心壮志和远大目标，你的公司也不会向前发展；接下来讲到，找到"你"工作效率最高的一段时间(most productive time)，并尽量维持这段时间以免被其他的待办事情打扰；最后又讲到，设置一些physical barriers，这样我们就可以防止注意力分散，从而地工作。所以这篇文章主要讲了如何防止注意力分散，进而集中精力处理主要问题。故答案选A。

5.【答案】B。解析：词义猜测题。根据关键词wanes回到文章第二段第二句话。该句讲到，有些时候你的精力最集中，也有些时候你的精力会_____。由此可知，and前后应该是形成一种对比，即有的时候精力集中，有的时候精力不济。所以wanes的意思是"减少，减弱，衰退"，与wanes意思最接近的是diminish。故答案选B。disappear消失；increase增加；peak达到最高点。

6.【答案】C。解析：推断题。根据关键词组chunk of time回到文章第二段。该段后半部分讲到，无论何时，你都要找出"一段时间"（即使只有一个小时），在这段时间里你的工作效率最高，同时你还要尽量维持好这段时间以免被其他待办的事情打扰。由此可知，作者提到的chunk of time指的就是"你工作效率最高、精力最集中的时间段"。故答案选C。

7.【答案】A。解析：推断题。根据文章第三段第2、3句话可知，在某种程度上，我们都需要与他人合作共事。我们往往会把合作密切的同事放在第一位，在他们需要帮助的时候，我们希望自己能够伸以援手。由此可知，B项"在办公室里，人们很乐于助人"与C项"在办公室里，你必须随时帮助别人"与原文表述不符，故排除；根据该段最后一句话But there are times you need to tune out the distractions ... work done. 可知，有些时候你不要理会那些让你分心的事情，要集中精力去完成有意义的工作。由此可知，有时候我们不得不拒绝同事的请求去完成更有意义、更重要的事情。故A项符合文章的意思；D项是该段第一句话的同义表述，不是从文章推断出来的，排除。故本题答案选A。

8.【答案】A。解析：推断题。题干问的是作者接下来有可能谈到什么内容，判断时需重点联系文章第三、四段的内容和全文的主旨。这两段内容主要是在讲工作时如何集中精力完成自己的任务，不受其他同事的影响。根据最后一段首句One of the most effective methods I've found is to put physical barriers between us.可知，作者在这里给出了其中一条建议，由此可以推断出作者接下来很有可能会谈到其它和建立身体屏障有关的方法和建议。因此A项符合题意。