Roger Conner is a modern-day Horatio Alger hero. Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop. He has bee the owner of a florist pany whose sales are well over $100 000 a year.
One day when Roger was only twelve, he stopped at a local flower shop. He asked the owner if he could work for 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 in his town. 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 for his fresh-cut flowers. His business grew rapidly as he built up a reputation for top quality and fine service.
In 1977, 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 to be paid” were astonished to find that they were being taken over by a teenager. He had plans to renovate (振兴) 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 bined 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.
【小题1】The author is wants to show us that people who want to succeed in business should .A．work without payB．own a flower shopC．work hard and never give upD．work as teenagers【小题2】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A．He worked for two years without pay.B．He needed luck to be successful.C．He opened his first flower business in a basement.D．He became successful before the age of twenty.【小题3】The passage may be a .A．newspaper reportB．humorous storyC．television playD．scientific story【小题4】The underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably means .A．employed himB．didn’t let him work thereC．paid him moneyD．were proud of him【小题5】From the passage, a “Horatio Alger hero” may be the kind of person who .A．works hard in the flower businessB．was born into a rich familyC．starts out poor and bees richD．bees famous as a result of good luckC
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(答案→)C
解析：本文介绍了Roger Conner的成功之路，并告诉我们成功靠的是努力和刻苦。
【小题1】C 推理题。根据第2段8,9行Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement in his town.说明遇见很多困难，他都没有放弃，而是一直向前，故要想成功要努力学习而且还不要放弃，故C正确。
【小题2】B 推理题。根据文章的讲述可知他的创业经历里，没有运气的成分，只有努力和刻苦再加上思考，故B正确。
【小题3】A 推理题。本文介绍了一位商业成功的人士，最有可能是从报纸张摘录下来的，故A正确。
【小题4】B 推理题。根据after six months they laid him off because business was slow.说明六个月以后因为生意下滑，他被解雇了，故B正确。
【小题5】C 推理题。根据文章第一段Roger Conner is a modern-day Horatio Alger hero. Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop. He has bee the owner of a florist pany whose sales are well over $100 000 a year.说明他是一个起点很低的人，最后取得了成功。故C正确。