短文理解（一）（CET英语）

短文部分是听力试题的第二部分（Section B），分值占听力试题的50%。通常由三篇短文组成，每篇文章约200字，之后有3至4道题。
短文的体裁一般为记叙文和说明文。内容涉及科普知识、社会问题真人真事的经历或生活趣闻。所用的词汇一般同样不超出大纲规定的范围。测试的重点既包括考生对短文细节、事实的辨别能力，也包括考生依据已知信息、细节进行推理判断的能力。
下面是1996年1月全真试题中的一篇短文：
Miss Susan Brown is twenty-five years old and has been a night nurse at a hospital since last April. She works eight nights on, six nights off, from 9:15 at night to 8 o’clock the next morning.
She worked as an office cleaner before she came to the hospital but she hadn’t enjoyed that experience at all.
It’s perhaps surprising that Susan chose to work nights permanently. She felt she needed a change for one thing. And for another, she hoped eventually to be a head nurse. She has also found that a night nurse’s work is physically less demanding than a cleaner’s and she can sleep eight hours during the day.
Of course there are some problems in her daily life. The most serious problem is the headaches she gets from the dim lighting in the hospital. She doesn’t have time to wash her long hair for eight working days and she has to learn to pack all her social activities into six days out of a fortnight. But on the whole she feels very happy.

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