Warren Buffett
     For someone who is such a successful investor, Warren Buffett comes off as a pretty ordinary guy.
He was born on August 30, 1930.   1     He used to go door-to-door and sell soda water. When his
family moved to Washington, Buffett became a paperboy for The Washington Post. Buffett ran his five
paper routes and even added magazines to round out his product offerings. While still in school, he was
making $175 a month, a full-time wage for many men.
        2     He spent $1,200 on 40 acres of farmland in Nebraska. He and a friend also made $50 a
week by placing pinball machines in barber shops. They called their venture（企業(yè)）Wilson Coin
Operated Machine Co.
     Although already a successful small-time businessman, Buffett wasn’t interested in going to college
but ended up at the University of Pennsylvania ---- his father encouraged him to go.  3    . But he
was turned down and that had to be one of the worst admission decisions in Harvard history. The
outcome affected Buffett’s life, for he ended up attending Columbia Business School, where he studied
under Professor Benjamin Graham, the father of securities analysis who provided the foundation for
Buffett’s investment strategy.
     From the beginning, Buffett made his fortune from investing. He started with all the money he had made from selling soda water, delivering papers, and operating pinball machines. Between 1950 and 1956, he grew his $9,800 to $14,000.   4    And then he gradually drew in other investors through word of mouth and very attractive terms.
      5     He doesn’t collect houses or cars or works of art, and he disdains（鄙視）companies that waste money on expensive cars, private dining rooms, and high-priced real villas. He is a creature of habit-----same house, same office, same city and same soda water.

A．Then Bufftt applied to Harvard Business School.
B．Buffett is more likely to be found in a four star restaurant.
C．When he was 14, Buffett kept great interest in investment.
D．Even as a young child, Buffett was serious about making money.
E．One thing is for sure about Buffett: he is happy doing what he is doing.
F．Buffett’s investment strategy mirrors his lifestyle and his overall philosophy.
G．From there, he organized investment partnerships with his family and friends.

     Visitors to central Austin Texas would be easy to miss a small, old house called the O. Henry
Museum. William Sydney Porter(1862-1910)---better known as O. Henry, was one of America's
best loved writers of short stories. Beginning in 1893, he lived here. It was saved from destruction,
moved, and turned into a museum in 1934. The museum is a good way to learn about the interesting
life of him.
     William Porter Sydney rented this house and lived with his wife Athol and daughter for about 2
years. Many objects in the museum belonged to the Porters. Others didn't, but are in the house to
recreate the way it looked during their lifetime.
     Porter worked at a pharmacy, farm, land office and bank. He also loved words and writing. The
museum has special proof of Porter's love of language---his dictionary. It is said that he read every
word in it. Porter started a small publication called "The Rolling Stone". He wasn't being published
early on, so he published himself. His funny stories, poems, and drawings were published in the
magazine. But it was too costly to continue for long, so he closed the project after about one year.
     Other troubles would lead the Porters to leave Austin. Porter was accused of financial wrongdoing
at the bank and lost his job. Fearing a trial, he fled the country. But he returned because his wife was
dying. After her death, he faced the trial and was found guilty. He served three and a half years in a
federal prison in Ohio.
     Porter would keep his time in prison a secret. But there was one good thing about it. It provided
him with time to write. By the time of his release, he had published 14 stories and was becoming
well-known as O. Henry.
     Porter would later move to New York City and find great success there. He published over 380
stories in the last 8 years of his life.

1. What does the author want to tell us in the passage?

A. O. Henry's experience in prison
B. The objects in the O. Henry Museum
C. O. Henry's achievement in literature
D. A brief introduction of O. Henry's life

2. What is the author's purpose of writing Paragraph 3?

A. To attract more visitors to the O. Henry Museum
B. To show the jobs O. Henry did
C. To show O. Henry's publication called "The Rolling Stone"
D. To show O. Henry's early love of words and writing

3. Which of the following shows the right order about O. Henry?

① He was committed to prison.
② He settled down in central Austin, Texas.
③ His wife died.
④ He started a small publication called "The Rolling Stone".
⑤ He moved to New York City.

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B. ②③①④⑤  
C. ②④③⑤①    
D. ②①③④⑤

4. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Most of O. Henry's short stories were finished in prison.
B. O. Henry didn't start his career as a successful writer when living in Austin.
C. O. Henry was born in a small, old house which is called the O. Henry Museum now.
D. O. Henry spent his last life in the small, old house in Texas.

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