Question

【題目】Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

The Voice in the Box

When I was quite young, my family had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished the wooden case fastened to the wall on the lower stair landing. But my first personal experience with this genie-in-the-receiver came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool bench, I hurt my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there didn’t seem to be much use crying, because there was no one home to offer sympathy. I walked around the house, and finally arriving at the stairway. The telephone! Quickly I ran for the footstool and dragged it to the landing. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver and held it to my ear. “Information Please,” I said into the mouthpiece just above my head.

A click or two, and a small, clear voice spoke into my ear, “Information.”

“I hurt my finger…” I cried into the phone. The tears came readily enough, now that I had an audience.

“Isn’t your mother home?” came the question.

“Nobody’s home but me.” I sobbed.

“Are you bleeding?”

“No,” I replied. “I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts.”

“Can you open your icebox?” she asked. I said I could. “Then break off a little piece of ice and hold it on your finger. That will stop the hurt. Be careful when you use the icepick(冰錐),” she said, “And don’t cry. You’ll be all right.”

After that, I called Information Please for everything. I asked her for help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was, and the Orinoco, the romantic river that I was going to explore when I grew up. She helped me with my arithmetic, and she told me that my pet chipmunk----I had caught him in the park just the day before----would eat fruit and nuts.

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Answer 1

【答案】There used to be a telephone in the author’s house. One day, the author’s finger was hurt but no one was available to comfort him. Accidently, he dialed the telephone and the answer told him what to do. From then on, he would ask the telephone for help whenever he had difficulties.

【解析】

這是一篇記敘文。作者的家里有一個(gè)電話，電話的里面有一個(gè)無所不知的Information Please，她給作者很多幫助，也給了他很多安慰，作者和她之間有了很深的友誼。

這是一篇記敘文，首先分析篇章結(jié)構(gòu)：

第一段介紹事件發(fā)生的背景①家里有電話②作者手指受傷，沒人哭訴。

第二至八段介紹作者與電話里的人第一次交流的全過程：對方教他如何處理受傷的手指。

第九段介紹從此作者幾乎什么問題都撥打電話請求Information Please幫忙。

我們將事件發(fā)生的背景、原因、經(jīng)過、結(jié)果用分別用一句話表述出來，就可以寫成一篇概要。