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【題目】閱讀理解
When her five daughters were young. Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity（團結(jié)）. To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.
Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However. Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.
Eventually（最終）the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains. “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”
Their expanding business became a large corporation（企業(yè)） in 1996, with three generations of An working together. Now the An' corporation makes more than ＄20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.
（1）Helene tied several chopsticks together to show.
A.the strength of family unity
B.the difficulty of growing up
C.the advantage of chopsticks
D.the best way of giving a lesson
（2）We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family.
A.started a business in 1975
B.left Vietnam without much money
C.bought a restaurant in San Francisco
D.opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles
（3）What can we infer about the An daughters?
A.They did not finish their college education
B.They could not bear to work in the family business
C.They were influenced by what Helene taught them
D.They were troubled by disagreement among family members
（4）Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A.How to Run a Corporation
B.Strength Comes from Peace
C.How to Achieve a Big Dream
D.Family Unity Builds Success

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）A
（2）B
（3）C
（4）D
【解析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，"一根筷子易折斷，一捆筷子抱成團"，這就是團結(jié)的力量。來自越南的An家族正是靠著團結(jié)一心，在美國成就了一番大事業(yè)。
（1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的"This lesson about family unity..."可知，媽媽這樣做是要告訴孩子們團結(jié)的力量。故選A。
（2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“…they didn't have much money.”可知他們離開越南時，沒有多少錢。所以答案是B。
（3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Even though family mem?bers sometimes disagreed with each other,they worked to?gether to make the business successful.”和Daughter Elizabeth說的話可知，這五個女兒沒有忘記媽媽的教誨，團結(jié)一心，把生意越做越大。故選C。
（4）考查主旨大意。文章通過講述來自越南的An家族靠著三代人團結(jié)一心，在美國成就了一番大事業(yè)的故事告訴我們：團結(jié)就是力量。D項最能概括文章大意，故選D。