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When, in 1976. John Midgley was awarded the CBE for telling readers of The Economist about the United States, he took particular delight in the fact that he went by bus from work to accept the decoration from Queen Elizabeth (who was staying in Blair House in Washington), and was in and out quick enough, drinking up a gin and tonic without a stop, to use the transfer ticket to go out to dinner.
He was a print hack all his life, spending freely on fun and friends, but never bothering to make his name known or his wallet fatter, with books or broadcasting. The possessor of free intelligence, he was not on a soap-box, or concentrated on influencing the great and good, though he got their attention just the same. His job, he once said, "was to assist the reading public to understand what was going on". He conveyed his liberal view of the world with great clarity but "if you can't give [people] useful information, you can shut up." He finally did shut up, just before Christmas.
Midgley, born in the working-class north of England in 1911, was in military intelligence during the Second World War, trying to work out Germany's intentions. He then turned to journalism, dodging for a time between The Economist, the (then) Manchester Guardian and the Times. as leader writer and foreign correspondent. In 1956 he landed on The Economist and, luckily for us, stayed there, until and beyond his retirement, contributing a book review days before he died.
He was foreign editor for seven years, pulling foreign coverage together in (his own words) "a reasonably satisfactory manner". He was a brilliant, scary teacher to a classroom of aspiring hacks, not lazily rewriting their pathetic stories but throwing them back to be redone, with advice that bums to this day. He also. less brilliantly, sent Kim Philby, whom he had known at Cambridge, to string for the paper from Beirut. until the spy's mask fell off and he fled to the Soviet Union.
In 1963. after a bit of an upheaval at The Economist, he went off to be Washington correspondent and, from then on, everything fell into place. He excelled at his job, lucidly explaining American affairs even to Americans themselves as well as to the rest of the world. He married Elizabeth. a producer at CBS, and they looked after each other with love and wit. Their house in north-west Washington was a warm and lovely meeting-place. His was a good life, the second half especially.

单选题 John Midgley was NOT fond of______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】事实细节题。由文章第二段“He was a print hack all his life, spending freely on fun and friends, but never bothering to make his name known or his wallet fatter, with books or broadcasting.”和“…He conveyed his liberal view of the world with great clarity”：可知John Midgley喜好交朋友，找乐子，但他却不愿通过书或广播使自己出名。他还喜欢明确地表达自己对世界的看法，选项中只有c不是他喜欢的。

单选题 He worked in all the following places at one time or another EXCEPT______.

单选题 From the second, paragraph, we can conclude John Midgley______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】推理判断题。文中第二段提到John Midgley非常有才华，他默默写作却赢得了巨大关注。他致力于帮助人们清晰地了解世界，给人们提供了许多有用信息。选项A “John Midgley没有引起人们注意”，与事实相反；B“John Midgley发布个人观点”，实际上他发表的是自由的观点；C“John Midgley在自己的事业上异常成功”，从第二段描述上可以看出来，他做得比较成功；D“John Midgley提供了很多无用的信息”，从John说的一句话“if you Can't gave [people] useful information, you can shut up.”可以看出他所提供的是有用的信息。因此，正确答案为C。

单选题 What does it mean by "he was not on a soap-box' in the second paragraph?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】推理判断题。整句话为“The possessor of fine intelligence, he was not on a soap-box, or concentrated on influencing the great and good, though he got their attention just the same.”(尽管拥有聪明才智，他却没有站在肥皂箱上，也没有专注于影响伟大优秀的人，然而他还是得到了他们的关注。)“on a soap box”和后面引起别人的关注有关，其实这是一个隐喻，以前人们要发表演讲引起别人的注意时通常要站在肥皂箱上，这样别人能更加显著地看到你。因此，正确答案是A“他不愿意引起别人的注意”。

单选题 It can be inferred from the text that______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】事实细节题。A“他的后半生较之更为辉煌”，从文章最后一段“His was a good life, the second half especlally.”可以推断是这样的；B“《经济学家》解雇了他”，从“In 1963, after a bit of an upheaval at The Economist, he went off to be Washington correspondent and, from then on, everything fell into place.”一句的表述可看出，是他自己离开了原公司，而不是《经济学家》解雇了他；C“在家庭生活中他不是诚实可信的人”，这一点文中没有提到；D“他在《经济学家》干得很出色”，这点也没有特别提出，文中更侧重讲他到了华盛顿后工作渐人佳境。因此，答案为A。