Question

【題目】

IMPROVE YOUR WRITING | WRITING INSPIRATION | GET PUBLISHED RESOURCES

Founded in 1887, The Writer aims to expand and support the work of professional writers with a straightforward presentation of industry information, writing instruction and professional and personal motivation. If you’re passionate about books, authors, and writing, you’ll find everything you need within our pages 12 times a year.

Our editors are interested in query letters (投稿信) on concrete topics written by emerging and experienced writers. We are looking for clear takeaway for our readers: What can they learn to improve their writing or advance their careers? What specific how-to tips and strategies will accomplish this?

In addition to a fleshed-out outline of your story idea and an estimated word count, queries should include a brief description of your background. For personal essays, we prefer writers to attach or paste the finished piece in their query email. We do not accept material that has been previously published in any form in print or online.

Queries should be sent by e-mail to tweditorial@madavor.com. All queries sent to any other address will be deleted.

Unfortunately, we receive hundreds of letters every week and cannot respond to all of them. If you haven’t heard from us in two weeks, please feel free to move your submission (投稿) to another publication. If you’re unfamiliar with our magazine, we recommend reading a few issues, subscribing, or at least signing up for our newsletter to get a feel for the kind of work we publish.

Article lengths vary widely from 300 to 3,000 words.

We recommend writers ask themselves the following questions before querying. It isn’t necessary to include them in your query, but we find it’s a good way to help us understand how your piece best fits in our pages:

* How specifically will this story idea help our readers become more informed writers?

* Why is this particular idea timely or relevant?

* Why are you the perfect person to write this piece?

We prefer electronic queries. Please do not mail queries.

Payment varies.

Thank you for considering a submission to The Writer magazine, the voice of imagination, creation, and publication since 1887.

【1】According to the passage, The Writer magazine __________.

A.provides practical suggestions on a writing career

B.responds to all the query letters from the readers

C.introduces successful writers and their works only

D.prefers handwritten queries to electronic ones

【2】When sending a query letter, a contributor must ________.

A.answer the three questions firstB.attach a printed version of the story

C.subscribe to the magazineD.include a brief self-introduction

【3】What is this passage mainly about?

A.Magazine recommendations.B.Submission guidelines.

C.Published stories.D.Subscription information.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】B

【解析】

本題是一篇應用文。向有意投稿的作者介紹一些投稿原則，幫助他們順利發表文章。

【1】細節理解題。根據文章的“The Writer aims to expand and support the work of professional writers with a straightforward presentation of industry information, writing instruction and professional and personal motivation. （《作家》提供簡單易懂的產業信息展示、寫作指導、激發職業及個人寫作積極性，最終拓展及提升專業作家的寫作）”，可以看出該雜志是提供與寫作方面有關的指導。故選A項。

【2】細節理解題。根據原文的“queries should include a brief description of your background（投稿信要包含投稿人簡短的背景介紹）”，可以看出投稿人要附贈自己的個人介紹。故選D項。

【3】主旨大意題。根據原文“We recommend writers ask themselves the following questions before querying.（在投稿前，我們建議作者應該問以下幾個問題）”，以及“it’s a good way to help us understand how your piece best fits in our pages（它能更好幫助我們理解你的寫作是否和我們的頁面契合）”，可判斷該文是指導作者如何更好地寫作投稿。故選B項。

應用文解題技巧。考場上的應用文大多選自外刊或外網的廣告類文章，而這一文章有自己的特點，結構清晰、行文簡單、條例清晰、關鍵詞醒目。所以考生需要通過“速讀”來了解文章的大意。如該文通過最上面的標題“The Writer”就可以對文章進行一個大致的猜測；又通過首段進一步確定該文的中心。其次，應用文有一些比較特殊的字體，如大小寫、數字等。通過這些特殊標明的字體可以快速“尋讀”以獲取想要的信息。如本題的第1小題，the Writer就是以斜體字the Writer標明的，可以快速匹配到第一段落。