【正文】 g his caramels. By the next year, production had grown to include cocoa, sweet chocolate, and baking chocolate. The Hershey Chocolate pany was born in 1894 as a subsidiary(子公司) of the Lancaster Caramel Company. Six years later, Milton sold the caramel pany, but reserved the rights, and the equipment, to make chocolate. He believed that a large market of chocolate consumers was waiting for someone to produce reasonably priced candy. He was right. Milton Hershey returned to the village where he had been born, in the heart of dairy country, and opened his chocolate manufacturing plant. With access to all the fresh milk he needed, he began producing the finest milk chocolate. The plant that opened in a small Pennsylvania village in 1905 is today the largest chocolate factory in the world. The sweets created at this facility are favorites around the world. The area where the factory is located is now known as Hershey, Pennsylvania. Within the first decades of its existence, the town of Hershey thrived, as did the chocolate business. A bank, a school, churches, a department store, even a park and a trolley system all appeared in short order。 the town soon even had a zoo. Today, a visit to the area reveals the Hershey Medical Center, Milton Hershey School, and Hershey39。s Chocolate World—a theme park where visitors are greeted by a giant Reeses Peanut Butter Cup. All of these things— and a huge number of happy chocolate lovers—were made possible because a caramel maker visited the Chicago Exposition of 1893!（1）The mention of the 1893 Exposition indicates that _______. A.the exposition in Chicago is held once every three years.B.the theme of the exposition of 1893 was Food from Around the World.C.the exposition contained displays from a variety of countries.D.the site of the exposition is now a branch of the Hershey Chocolate Company.（2）According to the passage, Milton Hershey sold his caramel pany in _______. A.1894B.1900C.1904D.1905（3）What can you infer from the passage? A.Chocolate is popular in every country in the world.B.Reeses Peanut Butter Cups are manufactured by the Hershey Chocolate Company.C.Chocolate had never been manufactured in the United States before Milton Hershey did it.D.The Hershey Chocolate Company now makes more money from Hershey39。s Chocolate World than from the manufacture and sale of chocolate.（4）The author wrote this passage mainly to _______. A.recount the founding of the Hershey Chocolate CompanyB.describe the process of manufacturing chocolateC.pare the popularity of chocolate to other candiesD.explain how apprenticeships work【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了Milton Hershey創(chuàng)辦Hershey39。s Chocolate的歷程以及該公司的發(fā)展目前狀況。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“In 1893, Milton attended the Chicago International Exposition, where he saw a display of German chocolatemaking implements.”可知，在1893年，Milton參加了芝加哥國際博覽會，在這個博覽會上，他看到了一套制作巧克力的設(shè)備，故可以推出，國際博覽會上有不同國家的產(chǎn)品展示，故選C。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“The Hershey Chocolate pany was born in 1894 as a subsidiary(子公司) of the Lancaster Caramel Company. Six years later, Milton sold the caramel pany, but reserved the rights, and the equipment, to make chocolate.”可知，1894年創(chuàng)立了子公司The Hershey Chocolate pany，六年后，也就是1900年，把焦糖公司給賣了，故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Today, a visit to the area reveals the Hershey Medical Center, Milton Hershey School, and Hershey39。s Chocolate World—a theme park where visitors are greeted by a giant Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.”可知，如今，游客可以去參觀Hershey醫(yī)學(xué)中心，Milton Hershey學(xué)校，以及Hershey39。s Chocolate World主題公園，在這里，游客可以看到巨大的Reeses Peanut Butter Cup，故可知，主題公園里展出的是Hershey39。s Chocolate公司的產(chǎn)品，故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。本文主要介紹Milton Hershey創(chuàng)辦Hershey39。s Chocolate的歷程以及該公司的發(fā)展目前狀況，故選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。 In 2011, Nancy Ballard went for a routine checkup that turned into something extraordinary. In fact, she was carrying a painting of a plant she39。d done when she arrived at her doctor39。s San Francisco office. It would be great if we had artwork like that for our chemotherapy (化療) rooms, the nurse said. Ballard asked to see one. She was shocked by what she found. The walls were dull and bare, and the paint was chipping (剝落). It was a depressing room for a depressing routine—patients restricted to chemo drips for perhaps several hours, often with nothing to look at other than those sad walls. Ballard didn39。t have cancer herself, but she could sympathize with the patients. I couldn39。t imagine how anyone could even think about getting healthy in a room like that, she says. As it happens, Ballard39。s physician, Stephen Hufford, was ill with cancer himself, so finding time to decorate the rooms was low on his todo list. So Ballard made it her mission to brighten up the place. She started by ing 20 local designers. I wrote, 39。You don39。t know me. But my heart hurts after seeing these rooms, she remembers. She then asked whether they would donate their time and money to transform just one of Dr. Hufford39。s rooms each. As it happened, six of them wrote back almost immediately. Six rooms got new paint, light fixtures, artwork, and furniture. Dr. Hufford was delighted. All the patients feel relieved of the pain because of it, he said. He even noted that his own tone of voice was different in the rooms and that he was better able to connect with his patients. Ballard was so encouraged by the patients39。 reactions that she created a nonprofit, Rooms That Rock 4 Chemo, to raise money and decorate more spaces. Since then, she has worked on 20 projects, including one in Pennsylvania. We were in Philadelphia for a ribbon cutting, and a woman was there on her third battle with cancer, says Ballard. When she saw what we39。d done, she said, 39。I39。m gonna beat it this time. I thought I wasn39。t going t