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　　Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America．One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world, and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York．

　　The reporter was talking to them about being important．

　　“How do we know if someone is really important?” the reporter asked the banker．

　　The banker thought for a few moments and then said, “I think anybody who is invited to the Whiter House to meet the President of the United States is really important．”

　　The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company．“Do you agree with that?” she asked．

　　The man shook his head, “No．I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House．You’d only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it．”

　　The reporter turned to the third man．“Do you think so?”

　　“No, I don’t．” he said．“I don’t think that makes the visitor important．That makes the President important．”

　　“Then what would make the visitor important?” the reporter and the other two men asked．

　　“Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, ‘it’s for you．’”

(1)

This story happened in ________．

[　　]

A．

England

B．

America

C．

Japan

D．

Australia

(2)

There are ________ in this passage．

[　　]

A．

two men and two women

B．

three men and one woman

C．

three women and one man

D．

four women

(3)

The banker thought ________．

[　　]

A．

he was really important because he was a rich banker

B．

the visitor to the White House was really important

C．

the visitor who met the President of the United States

D．

the reporter was really important

(4)

The owner of the very large company thought ________．

[　　]

A．

she was really important because she owned one of the largest companies

B．

the banker was really important

C．

the owner of many buildings in the center of New York was really important

D．

the visitor would be really important if while he was visiting the President, the President would not answer any telephone call

(5)

The owner of many buildings thought ________．

[　　]

A．

he was really important because he owned many buildings in the center of New York

B．

the owner of the very large company was really important

C．

the visitor was really important if he talking to the President and the President received a telephone call for the visitor

D．

the person who worked in the White House was really important

答案：1．B;2．A;3．C;4．D;5．C;
解析：

(1)

答案即是短文首段的第一句“Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America．”．

(2)

記者和那三個(gè)重要人物，共二男二女．關(guān)于男女性別可在下文中說話人的話語中可以看出來．

(3)

由“I think anybody who is invited to the Whiter House to meet the President of the United States is really important”這句可知．

(4)

同上題一樣，本題也屬表層理解題．答案就在“You’d only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it．”中．

(5)

　　文章最后一段即是本小題答案之所在．

　　短文的梗概是：一名電視臺(tái)記者向三個(gè)很富有的人問了這樣一個(gè)問題：如何判斷一個(gè)人是不是重要人物．銀行家認(rèn)為凡被邀請(qǐng)到白宮與美國總統(tǒng)會(huì)見的人都是重要人物．擁有世界上最大公司的那個(gè)人卻不贊同．他說被邀請(qǐng)去白宮的人太多了．但如果正當(dāng)你與總統(tǒng)談話時(shí)，另一個(gè)國家的總統(tǒng)來了電話，美國總統(tǒng)說他太忙了，不能接電話．這才說明你確實(shí)是重要人物．然而第三個(gè)人卻認(rèn)為這只能襯托美國總統(tǒng)的地位．他說如果正當(dāng)來訪者與美國總統(tǒng)談話時(shí)電話鈴響了，美國總統(tǒng)拿起電話聽了聽，然后對(duì)來訪者說，“找你的．”這個(gè)人是最重要的人物．


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