材料：The Official SAT Study Guide

试卷：2

页数：453

题号：3

3. During the course of the first paragraph, the narrator's focus shifts

from

A) recollection of past confidence to acknowledgment of present

self-doubt.

B) reflection on his expectations of life as a tradesman to his desire for

another job.

C) generalization about job dissatisfaction to the specifics of his own

situation.

D) evaluation of factors making him unhappy to identification of

alternatives.

答案及解析：

答案: C

解析:本题问的是在第一段，作者的重点是如何转换的。首句No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a

mistake in the choice of his

profession，即：没有人愿意承认自己选错了职业，关键词为profession职业，作者从职业开始讲起，lines1-6都是对选择职位的讨论;而在line

6后半句开始，From the first week of my residence in…作者将话锋转到自己这里，讲述自己对职业的不满，如a dry and

tedious task enough，endure，以及结尾处I began to feel like a plant growing in humid

darkness out of the slimy walls of a

well，作者觉得自己像一颗生长在潮湿墙壁上的植物，周围都是暗无光日的，可见作者对自己处境的不满，综上可知，作者先是泛泛而谈，接而具体化，引出自己的处境。因此，正确答案为C选项。

A选项错误，作者虽然在前文中提到了原以为自己会忍受这种无趣的工作，但后文并未体现self-doubt。

B选项错误，作者提到的工作是抄写和翻译商业信件，文中并未体现出作者期望成为一名商人，或者渴望换另一份工作。

D选项错误，虽然作者提到工作的枯燥，但尚未提到要去寻求解决的办法，属于无关信息。

重点词汇：

profession: [prə'feʃ(ə)n] n. 职业，专业;声明，宣布，表白

residence: ['rezɪd(ə)ns] n. 住宅，住处;居住

nuisance: ['njuːs(ə)ns] n. 讨厌的人;损害;麻烦事 | makes a nuisance of惹人讨厌

irksome: ['ɜːks(ə)m] adj. 令人厌烦的，讨厌的

pent: [pent] adj. 被关闭的;郁积的 | n. 单斜顶棚 | v. 把…关于围栏;把…关起来;囚禁(pen的过去分词)

antipathy: [æn'tɪpəθɪ] n. 反感;厌恶;憎恶;不相容