Question

  Marc Wright is one of the youngest entrepreneurs in America. He started his business when he was just 6 years old after 1 to some motivational tapes. Following a visit to an art  2   ，Marc thought he would make some drawings 3 see if he could earn money. His mother 4 he put his pictures on cards and sell them. He was an 5 success with some rather unique concepts.

  Marc knocked on doors and gave his short,but 6 sales talk. "Hi. My name is Marc,and Fm selling all kinds of greeting 7 . How many would you like to buy? Here's a hand?ful. Just pick the ones you want and 8 me what you want. " His cards were hand-drawn on pink,green and white  9  . They covered the season of the year,and Marc sold them about three days a week. He 10 about 75 cents a card and sold about 10 cards an hour. During his first year in 11 ，Marc earned $5,000, enough to take his mom 12 a trip to the Disney World.

  By the age of 10，Marc had become 13 of a media celebrity(名人) .He appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and was14by Conan O'Brien,an American television host,television writer and comedian. Marc 15 an idea,didn't care about his birthdays, and was happy to accept 16 from his mother. At the same time he studied 17 and he gradu?ated from the University of Washington. 18 he is the president of the Kiddie Card Compa?ny. Doing business is just like study and needs talent, but the key 19 practice. The earlier you practice，the 20 achievement you will get.

(   ) 1. A. seeing    B. hearing    C. listening    D. leading

(   ) 2. A. shop    B. museum    C. school    D. picture

(   ) 3. A. and    B. but    C. or    D. then

(   ) 4. A. encouraged    B. suggested    C. said    D. expected

(   ) 5. A. immediate    B. interesting    C. unusual    D. able

(   ) 6. A. funny    B. useless    C. effective    D. kind

(   ) 7. A. messages    B. letters    C. notes    D. cards

(   ) 8. A. buy    B. offer    C. reward    D. pay

(   ) 9. A. paper    B. silk    C. wood    D. cloth

(   ) 10. A. asked    B. sent    C. enjoyed    D. averaged

(   ) 11. A. company    B. business    C. studies    D. university

(   ) 12. A. in    B. with    C. on    D. at

(   ) 13. A. everything    B. something    C. anything    D. nothing

(   ) 14. A. researched    B. praised    C. interviewed    D. questioned

(   ) 15. A. insisted    B. saw    C. gave    D. had

(   ) 16. A. encouragement    B. gifts    C. lessons    D. warning

(   ) 17. A. hardly    B. hard    C. secretly    D. frequently

(   ) 18. A. Then    B. Soon    C. Now    D. Later

(   ) 19. A. refers to    B. comes to    C. deals with    D. lies in

(   ) 20. A. greater    B. smaller    C. quicker    D. slower

Answer 1

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本文主要介紹了美國(guó)年輕的企業(yè)家Marc Wright的成功經(jīng)歷。

1. C listen to tapes聽錄音帶。

2. B他參觀了藝術(shù)博物館，看到展出的圖畫后受到啟發(fā)，想他自己能不能通過畫畫賺錢。

3. A此處用and連接兩個(gè)并列分句。

4. B他媽媽建議(suggested) 他在卡片上畫畫，將制好的卡片賣出去。suggest sb. (should) do sth.是常用的表示建議的句型。

5. A下文對(duì)他的成功作了介紹，因此這里是說他很快(immediate) 獲得了成功。

6. C既然他獲得了成功，他的話肯定是有效的。

7. D 上文 put his pictures on cards and sell them提示答案。

8. D既然是出售賀卡，肯定是要付錢(pay)的。

9. A按照常理，制作卡片應(yīng)該是把畫畫在紙上。

10. D平均(averaged) —張賀卡賣75美分;根據(jù)上文中pay me what you want可排除A項(xiàng)。

11. B文章首段第二句有提示。

12. C takesb. on a trip意為"帶某人去旅行"。

13. B something of是固定搭配，意為"有幾分，有些"。

14. C他出現(xiàn)在Late Night with David Letter-man節(jié)目中，被節(jié)目主持人Conan O'Brien采訪。

15. D Marc有自己的主見，他不在乎自己的生曰，樂于得到媽媽的鼓勵(lì)(encouragement) 。

16. A同上

17. B Marc不光做生意，他同時(shí)努力(hard) 學(xué)習(xí)(下文提到他畢業(yè)于華盛頓大學(xué)) 。

18. C根據(jù)句子時(shí)態(tài)用now。

19. D做生意跟學(xué)習(xí)一樣，是需要天賦的，但它的關(guān)鍵在于實(shí)踐。lie in意為"在于"。

20. A你實(shí)踐得越早，你取得的成就就越大(greater) 。