2019届译林版高考英语选修八课堂讲义:Unit 4 课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & Reading Prereading Word版含答案
2019届译林版高考英语选修八课堂讲义:Unit 4 课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & Reading Prereading Word版含答案第3页

  A.Unfold the fact that Nick wants to know more about Gatsby.

  B.Show the version of Rhapsody in Blue matches the film well.

  C.Prove that the director is good at combining visual and music.

  D.Convince us that the first scene is perfectly shot by the director.

  解析:选C 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段第二句中的"Luhrmann is at his best mixing visual and musical styles together"可知,导演擅长把视觉和音乐相结合,而最后一段则是举例子说明,故选C。

  Ⅲ.任务型阅读

  Quiet Virtue: The Conscientious

  The everyday signs of conscientiousness (认真尽责) - being punctual, careful in doing work, self­disciplined, and scrupulous (一丝不苟的) in attending to responsibilities - are typical characteristics of the model organizational citizen, the people who keep things running as they should.They follow the rules, help out, and are concerned about the people they work with.It's the conscientious worker who helps newcomers or updates people who return after an absence, who gets to work on time and never abuses sick leaves, who always gets things done on deadline.

  Conscientiousness is a key to success in any field.In studies of job performance, outstanding effectiveness for almost all jobs, from semi­skilled labor to sales and management, depends on conscientiousness.It is particularly important for outstanding performance in jobs at the lower levels of an organization: the secretary whose message taking is perfect, the delivery truck driver who is always on time.

  Among sales representatives for a large American car manufacturer, those who were most conscientious had the largest volume of sales.Conscientiousness also offers a buffer (缓冲) against the threat of job loss in today's constantly changing market, because employees with this quality are among the most valued.For the sales representatives, their level of conscientiousness mattered almost as much as their sales in determining who stayed on.

  There is an air around highly conscientious people that makes them seem even better than they actually are.Their reputation for dependability influences managers' evaluations of their work, giving them higher evaluations than objective measures of their performance would predict.

But conscientiousness in the absence of social skills can lead to problems.Since conscientious people demand so much of themselves, they can hold other people to their own standards, and so be overly judgmental when others don't show the same high levels of model behavior.Factory workers in Great Britain and the United States who were extremely conscientious, for example, tended to criticize co­workers even about failures that seemed