第二部分：閱讀理解(共20小題;每小題2分，滿分40分)
閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。
A
Jeffrey Bezos，the founder，president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com，was born in Albuquerque，New Mexico.His mother's ancestors were early settlers in Texas，and over the generations had acquired a 25,000acre farm at Cotulla.Jeffrey spent most summers of his youth working with his grandfather on their farm.
Jeffrey showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age.He set up an electric alarm to keep his younger sisters and brothers out of his room and changed his parents' garage into a laboratory for his science projects.
After he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering，Jeffrey Bezos found employment on Wall Street，where computer science was increasingly in demand to study market trends.He rose quickly，becoming a senior vice president，and looked forward to a bright career in finance，when he made a discovery that changed his life，and the course of business history.
In 1994，there was still no Internet commerce to speak of.One day that spring，Jeffrey Bezos observed that Internet usage was increasing by 2,300 percent a year.He saw an opportunity for a new circle of commerce，and immediately began considering the possibilities.
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994，setting up the original company in his garage.The company was called Amazon for the seemingly endless South American river with its numberless branches.It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified(多樣化)to all kinds of products.His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most excellent dotcom entrepreneurs(企業(yè)家).He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.In 2008，he was selected by U.S.News &World Report as one of America's Best Leaders.Bezos' Amazon has become“the Earth's biggest anything store”.Amazon.com is now called“one of the smartest strategies in business history”.
Today，Jeffrey Bezos lives north of Seattle and is increasingly concerned with charity(慈善)activities.“Giving away money takes as much attention as building a successful company，”he has said.
【語篇解讀】 本文介紹的是Amazon公司創(chuàng)始人Jeffrey Bezos的傳奇人生。
36.In his childhood，Bezos________.
A.had to work with parents on their farm all day long
B.showed great interest in science
C.didn't get along well with his brothers and sisters
D.wanted to become a businessman
解析 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段第一句中的內(nèi)容可知他在很小的時(shí)候就對(duì)科學(xué)表現(xiàn)出了濃厚的興趣。
答案 B
37.Jeffrey changed the course of business history because he________.
A.rose quickly，looking forward to a bright career in finance on Wall Street
B.observed the Internet usage was increasing by 2,300% a year
C.founded a new form of commerce that developed fast later
D.was the first to speak of Internet commerce
解析 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。第三段提到他的發(fā)現(xiàn)改變了他的人生，也改變了商業(yè)歷史的進(jìn)程，下文提到他注意到了因特網(wǎng)商業(yè)的巨大商機(jī)并創(chuàng)辦了Amazon公司，由此可知原因是他后來創(chuàng)建了一種快速發(fā)展的新型商業(yè)模式。
答案 C
38.Bezos named his company Amazon with the aim of ________.
A.opening numberless branches all over the world
B.living a quiet life along the Amazon River
C.earning endless money and being wealthy
D.wishing his company to run smoothly and endlessly
解析 推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段第二句中的內(nèi)容可推測(cè)他以Amazon命名自己的公司是希望公司能夠順利而且永無止境地運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)。
答案 D
39.Which of the following ISN'T mentioned in the passage?
A.How hard Bezos studied physics in Princeton University.
B.“Amazo.com”only sold books in the beginning.
C.Bezos not only devoted his life to Internet commerce but also to charity.
D.The reason why Jeffrey Bezos decided to found Amazon.com.
解析 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文章第三段前半部分可知他從普林斯頓大學(xué)畢業(yè)，但文中并沒有提到他在普林斯頓大學(xué)攻讀物理的刻苦程度。
答案 A
