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1、山西襄垣县2017高考英语一轮阅读理解训练阅读理解。阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 To Whom It May Concern:Your address was forwarded to us by How to Magazine. All of us here think The International Institute of Not Doing Much is the best organization in the world. You know how to avoid unnecessary activities!As a matter o
2、f fact, we closely followed the advice in your article. First, we replaced all our telephones with carrier pigeons. Simply removing the jingle of telephones and replacing them with the pleasant sounds of birds has had a remarkable effect on everyone. Besides, birds are cheaper than telephone service
3、. After all, we are a business. We have to think of the bottom line. As a side benefit, the birds also fertilize the lawn outside the new employees sauna(桑拿房).Next, we sold the computers off to Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty, a firm of lawyers nearby. Our electricity bill went way down. Big savings! Th
4、e boss is impressed. We have completely embraced paper technology. Now that we all use pencils, doodling is on the increase, and the quality of pencil woman ship is impressive, as you can tell from my handwriting in this letter. By the way, if you can, please send this letter back to us. We can eras
5、e and reuse it. Just tie it to Maggies leg and shell know where to take it.Now its very calm and quiet here. You can notice the difference. No more loud chatter on the telephones! All we hear is the scratching of pencil on paper, the sound of pigeons, and the delivery of inter-office correspondence
6、by paper airplane.Wonderful! Ive always wanted to work for an insurance company ever since I was a little girl. Now its perfect.Sincerely yours,Eleanor LightlySpokeswoman and Company Hair StylistABC Activity Insurance: insure against overdoing it1. Which of the following best describes the life the
7、author is leading?A. A simple, slow-paced life. B. A life of hard work and security.C. A religious, peasant-like life. D. A life away from paper and pencils.2. Where is Eleanors letter sent to?A. How To Magazine. B. ABC Activity Insurance Company.C. Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty Law Firm. D. The Inter
8、national Institute of Not Doing Much.3. Which of the following is practiced in the authors company?A. Replacing the manual work system with modern technology.B. Turning off lights in the daytime to save electricity.C. Recycling paper resources whenever possible.D. Buying birds and pets as company fo
9、r the staff.4. What is true about Maggie?A. She works as a manager in the authors company.B. She sometimes helps fertilize the lawn outside the sauna.C. She often helps with inter-office correspondence using e-mail.D. Her handwriting has improved a lot after entering the company.5. What is the purpo
10、se for the person to write this letter?A. to show his dissatisfaction with the new environment.B. to complain about the bad working condition.C. to persuade people to live a simple life.D. to express his gratitude for the good advice.【参考答案】1-5、ADCBD 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。【2014高考训练】A Roger
11、Colmer is a modem-day Horatio Alger heroRoger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shopHe has become the owner of a florist company whose sales are well over $l00，000 a year One day when Roger was only twelve，he stopped at a local flower shopHe asked the owner if he could work fur him，w
12、ithout pay, in order to learn the businessRoger started working every day after school and on weekendsAfter two years on the job，he finally asked for a small salaryThe owners told him he wasnt good enough to be paid”So he quit ,and found a paying job at another local flower shop。He worked hard there
13、，but after six months they laid him offbecause business was slow Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basementHe started his business with only sixty-five dollarsHe bought old refrigerators at garage sales and knocked the shelves out This turnedthem int
14、o coolers fur his fresh-cut flowersHis business grew rapidly as he built up a reputation for top quality and fine service In l977，Roger bought out the flower store where he had worked without pay for over two yearsThe people who said he wasnt good enough” were astonished to find that they were being
15、 taken over by a teenager He had plans to renovate the whole store One of the reasons the owners sold out to Roger was that the store wasnt doing wellBut after Roger took over ownership and redid the store，businessstarted boomingIn fact, business was so good that after one year, he celebrated by buy
16、ing out the other store where he had workedRoger 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 employeesAnd he did it all before he reached the age of twenty 36.The author is most eager to show that people who want to get ahead in b
