Question

【题目】

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】

本题是一篇应用文。向有意投稿的作者介绍一些投稿原则，帮助他们顺利发表文章。

【1】细节理解题。根据文章的“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》提供简单易懂的产业信息展示、写作指导、激发职业及个人写作积极性，最终拓展及提升专业作家的写作）”，可以看出该杂志是提供与写作方面有关的指导。故选A项。

【2】细节理解题。根据原文的“queries should include a brief description of your background（投稿信要包含投稿人简短的背景介绍）”，可以看出投稿人要附赠自己的个人介绍。故选D项。

【3】主旨大意题。根据原文“We recommend writers ask themselves the following questions before querying.（在投稿前，我们建议作者应该问以下几个问题）”，以及“it’s a good way to help us understand how your piece best fits in our pages（它能更好帮助我们理解你的写作是否和我们的页面契合）”，可判断该文是指导作者如何更好地写作投稿。故选B项。

应用文解题技巧。考场上的应用文大多选自外刊或外网的广告类文章，而这一文章有自己的特点，结构清晰、行文简单、条例清晰、关键词醒目。所以考生需要通过“速读”来了解文章的大意。如该文通过最上面的标题“The Writer”就可以对文章进行一个大致的猜测；又通过首段进一步确定该文的中心。其次，应用文有一些比较特殊的字体，如大小写、数字等。通过这些特殊标明的字体可以快速“寻读”以获取想要的信息。如本题的第1小题，the Writer就是以斜体字the Writer标明的，可以快速匹配到第一段落。