甘肃省部分普通中学2017高考英语新课标卷9月份学能培优特训试题（三） Word版含答案.docVIP

【学能培优】甘肃省部分普通中学2017高考英语新课标卷9月份学能培优特训试题（三） 【全国优秀高中英语名师】 甘肃庆阳 刘克炜注意：本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分。考试时间100分钟。 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分：阅读理解( 共两节，满分40分) 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 AMr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer (零售商) who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Fields. Chicago. Founded in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department stores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Fields. He liked to say, “The customer is always right,” which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have invented the phrase “Only so many Shopping Days until Christmas”. When he visited London on holiday in 1906 he was surprised to find most of the citys department stores were no match for their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridges. a department store named after him. at the west end of Londons Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridges design team shaped an ambitious classical place building with a wall of plate glass windows. Opened in 1909, Selfridges offered customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first aid room and. most importantly, a small army of knowledgeable floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being thoroughly instructed in the art of making a sale. Mr. Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and comprehensively stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr. Selfridge later introduced the department store as a key element of the 20th Century culture, and Chaplin acknowledged the growing trend for shopping in the department store in his film The Floorwalker. 21. What can be learned about Mr. Selfridge from Paragraph 1? A. lie was well-educated. B. He was a gifted businessman. C. He was a modest man. D. He was dishonest.