六、任务型阅读。
Meng Tian was a general. He once led the army in a war against the State of Chu. In those days, people wrote on silk with a kind of stick pen. The stick pen was very hard, which made writing very slow. Meng Tian often had to write a great number of reports about the battlefield situation to the ruler of the State of Qin. He was frustrated(沮丧的) with the difficulty of writing, so he decided to make improvements.
Between battles, Meng enjoyed hunting. One day, Meng hunted a wild rabbit. It was fat and heavy and its tail left a trail(痕迹) on the ground. Meng suddenly had an idea. He immediately tied the rabbit's hair to a stick and tried writing with it. But the rabbit's hair was too oily(含油的) to hold the ink. Meng felt very sad and threw his rabbit-hair brush pen away into a hole in the rocks.
However, Meng Tian couldn't accept the failure and continued to spend time wondering how to improve the brush pen. A few days later, when he was having a walk outside for some fresh air, he found the rabbit-hair brush pen that he had thrown away. He picked it up and found that it had changed and that it was soft and wet—holding a lot of water. Meng Tian got inspiration at once. He put the rabbit-hair brush pen back in the ink and found it worked well on silk.
回答下列问题,每题答案不超过10个词。
1. What did people write with in Meng Tian's time?
The stick pen.
2. What was Meng Tian's hobby between battles?
Hunting.
3. How did Meng Tian feel when he failed to write with the rabbit-hair brush pen?
He felt sad.
4. Why did the rabbit-hair brush pen work well on silk at last?
Because it became soft and wet.
5. What do you think of Meng Tian?
Careful and smart.(答案不唯一)
解析：
【分析】
这道题是细节类任务型阅读简答题，解题思路很清晰：首先通读题干，划出每道题的核心关键词，带着关键词返回原文定位对应内容，同时严格遵守题干要求的"每题答案不超过10个词"的规则，优先从原文提取精准表述，开放题结合人物行为特点总结合理评价即可。第1题抓关键词"write with"定位书写工具，第2题抓关键词"hobby between battles"定位爱好，第3题抓关键词"feel when failed"定位情绪，第4题抓关键词"why work well finally"定位原因，第5题结合人物事迹总结形象。
【解析】
1. 定位原文第一段"In those days, people wrote on silk with a kind of stick pen"，直接提取当时人们的书写工具，得到答案。
2. 定位原文第二段首句"Between battles, Meng enjoyed hunting"，直接提取他战争间隙的爱好即可。
3. 定位原文第二段末尾"Meng felt very sad and threw his rabbit-hair brush pen away into a hole in the rocks"，提取失败后的情绪即可。
4. 定位原文第三段"He picked it up and found that it had changed and that it was soft and wet—holding a lot of water"，可知兔毛笔最终好用的原因是它变得又软又湿，可吸附墨水，整理得到答案。
5. 结合文中蒙恬善于观察、不轻易放弃、肯钻研改进工具的特点，给出合理的人物评价即可，答案不唯一。
【答案】
1. The stick pen.
2. Hunting.
3. He felt sad.
4. Because it became soft and wet.
5. Careful and smart.(答案不唯一)
【知识点】
阅读细节定位；人物形象归纳；简答规范
【点评】
本题属于低难度的记叙文任务型阅读，绝大多数答案都可以直接从原文中定位提取，仅最后一道开放题需要结合人物行为进行简单总结，做题时注意不要添加冗余内容，严格控制答案字数在10词以内即可，不容易失分。
【难度系数】
0.8
