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One day when Roger was only twelve, he stopped at a local flower shop. He asked the owner if he could work for him, without pay, in order to learn the business. Roger started working every day after school and on weekends. After two years on the job, he finally asked for a small salary. The owners told him he “wasn"t good enough to be paid.” So he quit, and found a paying job at another local flower shop. He worked hard there, but after six months they laid him off because business was slow.
Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement in his town. He started his business with only sixty-five dollars. He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and knocked the shelves out. This turned them into coolers for his fresh-cut flowers. His business grew rapidly as he built up a reputation for top quality and fine service.
In 1977, Roger bought out the flower store where he had worked without pay for over two years. The people who said he “wasn’t good enough to be paid” were astonished to find that they were being taken over by a teenager. He had plans to renovate (振兴) the whole store.
One of the reasons the owners sold out to Roger was that the store wasn"t doing well. But after Roger took over ownership and redid the store, business started booming. In fact, business was so good that after one year, he celebrated by buying out the other store where he had worked. Roger then combined both stores and moved to a location in the center of his town.
The new store has 2 000 square feet and seven employees. And he did it all before he reached the age of twenty.
小题1:The author is wants to show us that people who want to succeed in business should ________.
A.work without pay |
B.own a flower shop |
C.work hard and never give up |
D.work as teenagers |
A.He worked for two years without pay. |
B.He needed luck to be successful. |
C.He opened his first flower business in a basement. |
D.He became successful before the age of twenty. |
A.newspaper report | B.humorous story |
C.television play | D.scientific story |
A.employed him |
B.didn’t let him work there |
C.paid him money |
D.were proud of him |
A.works hard in the flower business |
B.was born into a rich family |
C.starts out poor and becomes rich |
D.becomes famous as a result of good luck |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C
解析
试题分析:本文介绍了Roger Conner的成功之路,并告诉我们成功靠的是努力和刻苦。
小题1:C 推理题。根据第2段8,9行Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement in his town.说明遇见很多困难,他都没有放弃,而是一直向前,故要想成功要努力学习而且还不要放弃,故C正确。
小题2:B 推理题。根据文章的讲述可知他的创业经历里,没有运气的成分,只有努力和刻苦再加上思考,故B正确。
小题3:A 推理题。本文介绍了一位商业成功的人士,最有可能是从报纸张摘录下来的,故A正确。
小题4:B 推理题。根据after six months they laid him off because business was slow.说明六个月以后因为生意下滑,他被解雇了,故B正确。
小题5:C 推理题。根据文章第一段Roger Conner is a modern-day Horatio Alger hero. Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop. He has become the owner of a florist company whose sales are well over $100 000 a year.说明他是一个起点很低的人,最后取得了成功。故C正确。
点评:本文介绍了Roger Conner的成功之路。要求考生要在阅读理解整体语篇的基础上,把握文章的真正内涵。①要吃透文章的字面意思,从字里行间捕捉有用的提示和线索,这是推理的前提和基础;②要对文字的表面信息进行挖掘加工,由表入里,由浅入深,从具体到抽象,从非凡到一般,通过分析、综合、判定等,进行深层处理,符合逻辑地推理。不能就是论事,断章取义,以偏概全。③要忠实于原文,以文章提供的事实和线索为依据。立足已知,推断未知。立足现在,猜测未来。不能主观臆想,凭空想象,随意揣测,更不能以自己的观点代替作者的观点;④要把握句、段之间的逻辑关系,了解语篇的结构。要体会文章的基调,揣摸作者的态度,摸准逻辑发展的方向,悟出作者的弦外之音。
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试题【Roger Conner is a modern-day Horatio Alger hero. Roger started out as an unpaid】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Going to Disneyland is a dream vacation for kids. You may have been to the Disneyland in Hong Kong or in other places. Soon you will be able to enjoy a Disney Park in Shanghai. Shanghai Disneyland started building on April 8, 2011.There will be many Chinese characters in Shanghai Disneyland. It is different from the others. There is a 10-kilometer-long river. It goes around the whole park. Shanghai Disneyland will cost 24. 4 billion yuan to build. It will open in five years. |
In order to keep the road safe, European Commission (欧盟) says that buses and taxis can be fitted (安装) with “black boxes.” The black boxes can help the police to find what happened after an accident. |
The Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway was put into operation at the end of June, 2011.Now the journey can take about five hours. The train can reach the speed of up to 380 kilometers an hour. The passenger volume (容量) can reach 160 million a year, marking a great step in China’s Railway development. |
On the evening of May 8th, 2012,a middle school teacher Zhang Lili from Jiamusi , Heilongjiang Province , saved her students in a terrible accident. She was badly hurt and lost her legs. Her brave deed moved the people around China deeply. She is called “the most beautiful teacher.” The whole society is trying to save her life. As a young teacher, her bravery sets a good example to us all. We all hope she will get better soon. |
A.June | B.July | C.August | D.September |
A.on April 8, 2011 | B.in 2012 |
C.on May 8, 2012 | D.in 2016 |
A.A 10-kilometer-long river goes in the middle of the park. |
B.There will be many Chinese characters. |
C.It is the same as the others. |
D.It opened 5 years ago. |
A.make buses and taxis go slowly. |
B.fit buses and taxis with "black boxes". |
C.make the police find out what happened. |
D.find out what "black boxes" can do. |
A.Now we are able to enjoy a Disney Park in Shanghai. |
B.The black boxes can help the police predict what will happen. |
C.The passenger volume can reach 380 million a year. |
D.“The most beautiful teacher” Zhang Lili is our good example. |
People born in Switzerland will tend to be the happiest and have the best quality of life in terms of wealth,health and trust in public institutions,according to the analysis. The Scandinavian countries of Norway,Sweden and Denmark also all make the top five in a‘quality-of-lif e’index(指数)where it is best to be born next year.
One of the most important factors is being rich,but other factors come into play including crime,trust in public institutions and the health of family life. In total,the index takes into account 11 factors. These include fixed factors such as geography,others that change slowly over time such as demography (人口学) social and cultural characteristics, and the state of the world economy. The index also looks at income per head in 2030,which is roughly when children born in 2013 will reach adulthood. Small economies take up the top 10 countries,with Australia coming second and New Zealand and the Netherlands not too far behind.
Half of the top 10 countries are European,but only one,the Netherlands,is from the eurozone. The crisis-ridden south of Europe,including Greece,Portugal and Spain,falls behind despite the advantage of a favourable climate. Interestingly,the largest European economies-Germany,France and Britain-do not do particularly well. Nigeria has the unenviable(不值得羡慕的)title of being the worst country for a baby to enter the world in 2013.
小题1:According to the passage,the happiest people live in ·
A.Denmark | B.Switzerland | C.Germany | D.Nigeria |
A.economy | B.geography |
C.trust in public institutions | D.pollution |
A.The Economist Intelligence Unit is a company. |
B.The Economist attempted to measure the best place to live. |
C.The Scandinavian countries are hardly at the top of the list. |
D.Half of the top 10 countries are from the eurozone. |
A.the best place to be born in 2013 |
B.a new study made by the EIU |
C.the worst country to be born in 2013 |
D.the factors of measuring the best place to be born |
Since Beijing’s first ski resort was opened ten years ago, the sport has enjoyed astonishing increase. There are now more than a dozen resorts. Clothes markets in the city have added bright colored ski suits to their winter collections. Mr. Wei, a manager of a newly-opened ski resort inBeijing, sees the growth of an industry that could soon lead Chinese to head for the ski resorts of Europe. In recent years, ski resorts offering natural snow have opened in China. But many are in faraway areas of the country and can’t really match the equipment and services of some ski resorts in Europe.
Beijing’s skiing craze is partly a result of the recent increase in private (私有的) cars. This has led to the growth of a leisure industry in the capital’s suburbs (郊区), which until the late-1990s were unreachable to ordinary people. According to Mr. Wei, about 40% of the visitors to his resort come in their own cars. The rest are bused in by schools, businesses or government offices.
The problem is making money. Starting ski resorts requires quite a lot of money; hiring land from the local government, preparing the hills, buying snow machines, making sure there are enough water and electricity to run them, and buying ski equipment for hiring out to customers.
The ski resort where Mr. Wei works cost nearly $4 million to set up. And as so often in China when someone comes up with a good idea, many others rush in and price wars break out. Beijing now offers some of the cheapest ski training classes in the world, though with most people rather new to the sport, expecting a few more doing the same job.
小题1:What does this text mainly talk about?
A.Convenience for skiers brought about by private cars. |
B.Skiing as a new way of enjoying one"s spare time. |
C.Things to be considered when starting a ski resort. |
D.A sudden increase of ski training classes in Beijing. |
A.To visit more ski areas. |
B.To ski on natural snow. |
C.For a large collection of ski suits. |
D.For better services and equipment. |
A.transport to ski resorts |
B.production of family cars |
C.business of providing spare time enjoyments |
D.part-time work for people living in the suburbs |
A.Difficulty in hiring land. |
B.Lack of business experience. |
C.Price wars with other ski resorts |
D.Shortage of water and electricity. |
The Cambodian government says more than 378 people died and hundreds more were injured in a stampede (踩踏) during the celebrations of the annual Water Festival late Monday in Phnom Penh.
Less than 24 hours after the tragedy(悲剧), Cambodia"s most serious loss of life in decades(十年), the government founded an organization to investigate(调查) how so many died on what was meant to be one of the nation"s most joyous occasions.
Most of the victims(牺牲品) were young people in their teens and twenties. They were some of the estimated(估计) two million who had flooded to Phnom Penh for the Water Festival, which marks the end of the rainy season.
Most suffocated on the bridge, which thousands of people were using to leave Diamond Island, an entertainment(娱乐) area in the middle of the river. Others drowned(溺水) after jumping from the bridge into the water.
Buot Panha, 19, said shortly after 9:30 on Monday evening he ended up trapped(围困) with his friends in the middle of the bridge, fighting to breathe while terrified people struggled all around him.
Being tall saved his life, since he could stretch(伸出) his neck to take in oxygen(氧气). Shorter people were unable to do that, he says, which may be why two-thirds of the victims were women.
He tried to help a woman who was trapped with two children near him. She was screaming for people to help. Being tall, Buot Panha grabbed(抓住) one child and pushed him above the crowd to help him breathe.
But then some of the young men were told to jump off the bridge into the river to make room. So he handed back the child, squirmed his way to the edge, and jumped.
Some like Buot Panha were fortunate, jumping into the river below and swimming for the shore. But many simply could not move, and died where they lay.
Buot Panha says his first Water Festival will be his last. He vows(发誓) never to come back.
小题1:The passage is mainly about ________.
A.Water Festival celebrations | B.a stampede in Cambodia |
C.a teenager, Buot Panha | D.a woman and her children |
A.It is the biggest tragedy in decades in Cambodia. |
B.It is the most serious loss of life in decades in Cambodia. |
C.The government ordered an investigation. |
D.Water Festival is Cambodia’s most joyous occasion. |
A.breathed in | B.felt uncomfortable |
C.died from too little oxygen | D.left in a hurry |
A.being unable to breathe | B.being drowned |
C.violence | D.the rainy season |
A.His being tall saved him in the river. |
B.He struggled through the crowd to save one child. |
C.It was his first time to attend the Water Festival alone. |
D.He will never come back to Phnom Penh for the Water Festival. |
With the rapper(说唱歌手) making an appearance at Thursday’s MTV Video Music Awards, here’s what you need to know about the break-out artist.
His real name is Park Jae-Sang. The 35-year-old Korean pop rapper is known for his comedic music videos and performances. The video for “Gangnam Style” is no exception. When his first album PSY—From the Psycho World! was released in 2001, he was nicknamed “PSY” because of his unusual dress, special lyrics(歌词) and funny dance movies.
Gangnam is a wealthy neighborhood in Seoul(首尔). Gangnam may only be 15 square miles, but the district in Seoul, South Korea, is home to the headquarters of some of the country’s most influential companies, including Samsung, Hyundai and LG. The region also makes up 7% of South Korea’s GDP. 41% of students at Seoul University, a very famous college, come from Gangnam. The lyrics of PSY’s song describe the personality of a girl and a guy.
He studied in the U.S. Born in South Korea on December 31, 1977, PSY attended Banpo Elementary School, Banpo Middle School and Eva High School. But when it came time to achieve a college degree, the rapper attended both Boston University and Berklee College of Music in the U.S.
“Gangnam Style” is giving K-pop international fame. “Gangnam Style” is currently No.1 on the iTunes music video chart. The video has surpassed Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”; Justin Bieber’s “As Long As You Love Me”; and Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake”. This is the first time a Korean artist has ranked this high on iTunes.
小题1:What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A.The success of “Gangnam Style”. |
B.The origin of “Gangnam Style”. |
C.The result of the Music Award. |
D.The childhood of PSY. |
A.is already in his forties now |
B.made his first album in 2003 |
C.danced only in his “Gangnam Style” |
D.has developed his special comedic style |
A.It is the capital of South Korea. |
B.It is rich and better developed. |
C.Seoul University lies in it. |
D.It covers about 90 square miles. |
A.“Gangnarn Style” isn’t popular in English-speaking countries. |
B.PSY will be given another big prize for music in the future. |
C.iTunes is the No.1 music company on the internet. |
D.“Gangnam Style” has won the most worldwide popularity. |
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