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1、湖北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（75）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AThere once was a very honest shopkeeper whose business was to provide goods to the local peopleHe would open his shop at 8:00 amafter having his breakfast and at 1:00 pmhe would go for lunchIn the evening at 8:30 pmhe closed his shop to
2、 complete his daily routineHowever, to get time for lunch was really difficult because he didnt have anybody to help him at that timeTherefore, it was his daily practice that whichever customer was shopping at 1:00 pmwould be asked to oversee （看管） the shop until the shopkeeper returned from lunchOne
3、 day, a group of four thieves planned to steal from his shop while he was gone for lunchOne of the thieves went at 1:00 pmto be the customer that would be asked to oversee the shopThe thief, pretending to be a customer, went in at 1:00 pmand started buying several itemsAs planned, the shop-keeper as
4、ked the thief to sit on his chair for thirty minutes until he returned from lunchThen, the other three thieves quickly came and told the pretend customer to help, but something had changed within him and he knew deeply in his heart that if he was given responsibility for the shop, he should not perf
5、orm any dishonest acts during that timeHis friends did not agreeAs the now honest man tried to stop them, they resisted and a fight startedAnd at the same time the shopkeeper returned and asked why there was a fightingThe now honest man explained the entire planThe shopkeeper had been searching for
6、an honest man who could take ownership of the shop and run itThe shop-keeper felt that he had found the right man1What is the problem for the shopkeeper?ANobody could prepare lunch for him every dayBHe had nobody to keep the shop when he went for lunchCHe was too busy to have lunch every dayDHe coul
7、dnt find a person to work at the shop2Why did the thief go to the shop at 1:00 pm?ABecause he thought he would be asked to keep the shopBBecause the shopkeeper invited him to lunch thenCBecause the shop was closed at that timeDBecause he thought he could buy cheap things then3When the shopkeeper ret
8、urned from lunch, he found _Aeverything in his shop was stolenBthe thief became the new owner of the shopCthere was a fighting in his shopDthe thief helped his fellows steal things from his shop4From the passage, we can infer that _Aonce a thief, he will always be a thiefBan honest man will be respo
9、nsible for his actionCyou cant believe in a dishonest man foreverDtrust can change a thief into an honest manBAs late as 1800, womens only place was in the homeThe idea of women in the business world was unthinkableMen were certain that no woman could do a good job outside her homeThis was such a wi
10、dely accepted idea that when the well-known Bronte sisters began writing books in 1864, they had to sign their books with mens names insteadTeaching was the first profession （职业） open to women soon after 1800But even that was not an easy profession for women to enter because most schools and college
11、s were open only to menOberlin College in Ohio was the first college in America to accept womenHospital nursing became respectable work for women only after Nightingale became famousSeeing that she was not only a nurse but also a rich and well-educated woman, people began to believe it was possible
12、for women to nurse the sick and still be “ladies”Miss Nightingale opened Englands first training school for nurses in 1860The invention of the typewriter （打字机） in 1867 helped to bring women out of the home and into the business worldBy 1900, thousands of women were working at real jobs in schools, h
13、ospitals, and offices in both England and AmericaSome women even managed to become doctors or lawyersThe idea that women could work in the business world had been accepted5Why couldnt women become teachers easily? Because_Athe first profession open to them was writingBmost schools and colleges were
14、open only to menCthey wanted to be nurses insteadDthey didnt want to be teachers6The article is mainly about_Awomen in the business world Bthe famous Bronte sistersCschools and colleges in America Drights for American women7Which fact does the article lead you to believe?AThe Bronte sisters thought
15、that they were menBEnglands first training school for nurses was in OhioCThere are more men than women in professional jobsDWomen find it necessary to work harder than before8Which of the following is TRUE？AThe typewriter was made in the 1970sBMost Englanders are doctors or lawyersCPeoples ideas about womens work have changedDThe 18th century saw a changing world for womenC Kings College Summer SchoolKings College Summer School is an annual(每年的) training program for high s
