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Do you have too much stuff? Are you dare we say it "untidy"? (16)Say hello to a TV show called "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo". A home improvement show based on her widely popular book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. In the show, Marie Kondo acts as a tiny garbage fairy for messy people, visiting their houses to share the wisdom of the "KonMari" method. This method is simple in theory but can be endlessly complex in practice. (17)You divide all the stuff in your house – all of it – into several categories, and then examine each item -- all of them – to see if it sparks joy. If it does, you keep it. If it doesn't, you thank it, and neatly discard it. So, is the TV show inspiring people to tidy up? Firsthand accounts seem to indicate a small wave of people bringing piles of donation bags to used good stores. One store received thousands of bags of used possessions in one day. January is usually the store's slow season for donations, because it's cold and people don't want to bother. But not this January. People seemed determined to clean up their homes. (18)One used bookstore received a month's worth of books in donations in a week when a man gave over 50 boxes of books from his home. It seems Marie’s TV show is having a big impact after all.
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预览三道题各选项,由tidying up、donating.clean-up 、donated books等词可推测,短文内容与清理房 间、捐赠物品有关,可能涉及如何清理自己的物品并捐献给相关机构等。
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16. What is Maire Kondo's TV show about?
详解 B)。短文开头问道,你是否有太多的东西,随后指出看藤麻理惠的电视节目可能会有帮助,这 是一个有关改善居家环境的节目。由此可推断,该节目与整理家中的物品有关。因此答案为B)。
17. What things can be kept in one's home, according to Maire Kondo?
详解 A)。短文中提到,藤麻理惠有一个方法能让家里变得井井有条,这个方法说起来容易做起来 难。具体的办法是,把家里所有的物品分成几类,看哪件物品能激发你的喜爱之情,如果喜爱,就留下。
18. What do we learn about one used bookstore this January?
详解 C)。短文中提到,藤麻理惠的电视节目还是产生了很大的影响。一月份天气寒冷,通常是二 手货店铺的捐赠淡季。但今年一月份,人们似乎决心行动起来收拾家里,有人整理出了50多箱书捐赠 给一家二手书店,该书店一周内收到的捐书量相当于过去一个月的捐赠量。由此可知,该书店在一月 份收到了大量的捐赠图书。因此答案为C)。