【正文】 cago International Exposition, where he saw a display of German chocolatemaking implements. Fascinated by the equipment, he purchased it for his Lancaster candy factory and began producing chocolate, which he used for coating 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. 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。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 theme of the exposition of 1893 was Food from Around the World.C.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.B.C.D.Chocolate is popular in every country in the world.B.Chocolate had never been manufactured in the United States before Milton Hershey did it.D.s Chocolate World than from the manufacture and sale of chocolate.（4）The author wrote this passage mainly to _______. A.describe the process of manufacturing chocolateC.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。 （1）考查推理判斷。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 （3）考查推理判斷。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公司的產(chǎn)品，故選B。本文主要介紹Milton Hershey創(chuàng)辦Hershey39。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)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。 Nine years ago, a few days before Christmas, I was a director at a pany in San Francisco, and I was called into a meeting that was already in progress. That meeting turned out to be my exit interview. I was 64 years old at the time. It wasn39。 So, 40 plus years of employment was over. I had a good reputation and background. Retirement was not a choice for me. I wanted to do something. And then an idea came into my mind, born from my concern for our environment. I wanted to build my own business, designing and producing biodegradable(可生物降解的)packaging from waste. This is called clean technology, and it was really meaningful to me. It could help reduce billions of pounds of singleuse plastic packaging wasted each year.m delighted and proud to share with you that our ine has doubled every year and we have no debt. Meanwhile, I have a wonderful partner, and we39。ve done. So I want to do something about that in a few years. I want us to start talking more about people who don39。He retired from his former pany.B.He had a good family background.D.It was beneficial to the environment.It developed a clean technology.C.D.s attitude to the development of his own pany? A.Disappointed.C.Positive.（4）What does the author plan to do in the future? A.To help people who want to bee successful.C.To build a munity for senior entrepreneurs.【答案】 （1）A（2）A（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了64歲的作者退休后開創(chuàng)了自己的事業(yè)，成為一位老年企業(yè)家的故事。根據(jù)第一段中的“That meeting turned out to be my exit interview. I was 64 years old at the time. It wasn39。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 （3）考查觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度。m delighted and proud to share with you that our ine has doubled every year and we have no debt. Meanwhile, I have a wonderful partner, and we39。ve done.可知，作者的公司每年的收入都翻番，而且還與一個(gè)合作者一起贏得了20多個(gè)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)，由此可知，作者對自己公司的發(fā)展的態(tài)度是積極的，故選D。根據(jù)最后一段中的“And then connecting all of them across industries, regions and countries—building a munity.可知，作者計(jì)劃將來為來自不同行業(yè)、地區(qū)和國家的老年企業(yè)家建立一個(gè)社區(qū)，故選D。7．閱讀理解 And then there is Hunter Shamatt, who not only got back his wallet but with some added happiness that was tagged along!s wedding on a Las Vegasbound flight when he realized that he has misplaced his wallet, sometime during the journey. Hunter39。 But wait. The story was far from over. Just a week after Hunter39。s wedding, he received a package in his mail. And guess what? There was his wallet! Surprisingly, the wallet was not the only thing that was inside the package. It also had a handwritten note for Hunter which turned out to be a bonus! The piece of paper read,Hunter, Found this on a Frontier flight from Omaha to Denver — row 12, seat F wedged between the seat and wall. Thought you might want it back. All the best.. I rounded your cash up to an even $100, so you could celebrate getting your wallet back. HAVE FUN!!!s mom, Jeannie Shamatt, decided to write a post on Facebook giving a detailed description of the incident. She also urged everyone to share the post as she would like to meet and greet the person behind the act of kindness, personally.s post reaches his colleague. Jeannie turned to Facebook again to thank Brown and his family for restoring her faith in humanity.Todd Brown sent it back.The police mailed it back.C.The Frontier flight helped him get it back.（2）What things were found in the package? A.B.C.D.s mom feel after receiving the package? A.B.C.D.Friendship.B.Kindness.D.體現(xiàn)了Todd Brown善良，拾金不昧的品質(zhì)。根據(jù)Just a week after Hunter39。s wedding, he re