文章大意:本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍人们不断地收到信息,从邮箱到收件箱再到短信提醒。读什么,略读什么,忽略什么是几乎每个人每天都要做的决定,并介绍All Readers are Busy这本书中告诉了我们如何高效的撰写信息。
10 . In Favour of Simple Writing
Do you edit text messages carefully before sending them? If so, you may be the kind of person who takes pride in _______ even the simplest message. If you do not, you may see yourself as a go-getter, one who values excitement and speed over _______: get it done decently now rather than perfectly later.
People are constantly receiving messages, from the mailbox to the inbox to the text-message alert. What to read, what to skim (略读) and what to ignore are decisions that nearly everyone has to make dozens of times a day. A new book titled All Readers are Busy Nowadays makes the argument for being the careful kind of _______, even in informal lines. The authors also present well-established _______ that have long been prized in guides to writing.
Take “less is more”. Most books on writing well advocate the advice to _______ needless words. The authors, however, have _______ the idea. In an email to thousands of school-board members asking them to take a survey, cutting the count from127 to 49 words almost _______ the response rate.
Keeping messages to a _______ idea—or as few as absolutely needed—helps ensure that they will be read, remembered and acted on. _______ the number of the available options has the same effect, too. A link in an email, ________, attracted 50% more clicks when presented alone than when it was sent alongside a second additional link.
Syntax (句法) and ________ matter, too. It is more ________ to adopt short and active sentences, with common words familiar to everyone. From Facebook posts to online-travel reviews, even brief, informal pieces of writing that follow these rules get more likes and shares.
If everyone is a busy reader, everyone is a busy writer, too. That may make it tempting to sent as many messages as ________ as possible and hope for the best. But from essays to text messages organizing dinner plans, devoting time to the needs of readers has provable ________. If you are so busy that you write an undisciplined message which readers scan, ignore and delete, then you might as well have not ________ it at all.
1. A.conveying | B.understanding | C.crafting | D.sending |
2. A.care | B.quantity | C.simplicity | D.technology |
3. A.reader | B.poster | C.learner | D.writer |
4. A.structures | B.principles | C.aims | D.alternatives |
5. A.remove | B.ignore | C.reconsider | D.interpret |
6. A.conveyed | B.translated | C.tested | D.shaped |
7. A.lowered | B.affected | C.doubled | D.maintained |
8. A.basic | B.positive | C.definite | D.single |
9. A.Recording | B.Reducing | C.Counting | D.Estimating |
10. A.in comparison | B.after all | C.for instance | D.in particular |
11. A.word-choice | B.pattern-design | C.target-setting | D.platform-selection |
12. A.difficult | B.suitable | C.challenging | D.common |
13. A.carefully | B.often | C.politely | D.quickly |
14. A.outcomes | B.points | C.figures | D.benefits |
15. A.received | B.written | C.read | D.answered |