第一节：阅读表达（共 5 小题，每小题 3 分，满分 15 分）

阅读下面的短文，请根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）

A friend of mine who was high up in a big corporation had worked out a way of handling a flood of e-mails before most of us had even heard of the concept. If any information he was sent was vital enough, his lack of response would ensure the sender rang him up. If the sender wasn't important enough to have his private number, the communication couldn't be that important. My friend is now even more senior in the company, so the strategy must work.

Although every week now, there seems to be a report suggesting that we are all being driven crazy by the bother of e-mail. If this is the case, it's only because we haven't developed an appropriate discrimination in dealing with it.

    ____________. Firstly, you junk anything with an exclamation mark or a string of capital letters, or from any address you don’t recognize or feel confident about.

   Secondly, e-mails don’t all have to be answered. Because e-mailing is so easy, there’s a tendency for correspondence to carry on for ever, but it is permissible to stop an endless discussion or to accept a point of information sent by a colleague without acknowledging it.

    Thirdly, a reply e-mail doesn’t have to be the same length as the original. We all have e-mail pals who sent long chatty e-mails, which we are nice to receive, but who then expect an equally long reply. The charm of e-mail can consist in the simple sentence, totally regardless of the format of the letter sent by the post. You are perfectly within bounds of politeness in responding to a marathon e-mail with a brief reply.

76. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

The possible existence of annoyance results from our inability to sort out e-mails

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77. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with a proper sentence. (Within 10 words)

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78. What advice is given in the last paragraph? (Within 10 words)

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79. For what purpose does the author mention his American friend in Paragraph 1? (within 10 words)

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80. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.

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答案与解析：

76.答案： If this is the case, it's only because we haven't developed an appropriate discrimination in dealing with it.

解析：该题属于同义句替换。有一定的难度。因为两句之间没有相同的用词，只能从上下文语境和句子本身理解。另外又result from“ 起因于”可以和because对应起来。

77.答案： E-mail(s) can be handled in the following ways. 或Here are the ways to deal with e-mail(s). 或Handling e-mail(s) is an art.

解析： 首先看清题目的要求，该题是要求写出一个句子。如果写的不是句子，那肯定要扣分。从下文的firstly， secondly和thirdly可以确定此处应该是一个主题句。下文的三点都是围绕写e-mails的问题。

78. 答案： You may reply to a long e-mail briefly. 或You don't have to write a long reply e-mail.

解析： 最后一段的主题句就是第一句Thirdly, a reply e-mail doesn’t have to be the same length as the original. 把这一句变换一下说法就可以了。

79. 答案：To show a way of handling e-mail(s) with an example. 或=To introduce the topic of the text.

解析：因为整段是围绕电子邮件的问题，所以作者开头所引用一个具体事例说明处理电子邮件的策略。

80. 答案：用简短的话回复冗长的电子邮件完全不失礼节。或用简短的话回复马拉松式的电子邮件也是礼貌的。

解析：该题关键之处是are perfectly within bounds of politeness，只要把这部分翻译好了，其他部分就简单了。