青岛市2015高考英语阅读理解选练（二）及答案（一轮）.docVIP

青岛市2015高考英语阅读理解选练（2）及答案（一轮） 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。 A Roger Colmer is a modem-day Horatio Alger hero．Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop．He 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 shop．He asked the owner if he could work fur him，without pay, in order to learn the business．Roger started working every day after school and on weekends．After ‘two years on the job，he finally asked for a small salary．The owners told him he wasn’t good enough to be paid．”So he quit ,and found a paying job at another local flower shop．。He worked hard there，but after six months they laid him off because business was slow． Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement．He started his business with only sixty-five dollars．He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and knocked the shelves out This turned．them into coolers fur his fresh-cut flowers．His 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 years．The people who said he wasn’t good enough” were astonished to find that they were being 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 wasn’t doing well．But after Roger took over ownership and redid the store，business started booming．In fact, business was so good that after one year, he celebrated by buying out the other store where he had worked．Roger 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 employees．And 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 business should A Work without pay B own a flower shop C wor