问题 单项选择题

英国某经济学家认为1550—1560年是近代编年史上,从未存在过对商人、投机者和暴发户来说如此持久,如此可贵的良机。当时英国人把握良机的方式有()

①价格革命

②圈地运动

③殖民掠夺

④商业战争

A、①②

B、①②③

C、②③④

D、①②③④

答案

参考答案:A

解析:15、16世纪新航路开辟,导致欧洲出现了物价飞涨的价格革命,英国可以利用此时机,故①正确;伴随着新航路的开辟,海外对英国的羊毛制品的需求扩大,英国逐渐出现了圈地——种草——养羊——剪羊毛——制成羊毛制品——出口,这样的活动即圈地运动,故②正确;16时机中期英国尚未进行大规模的殖民掠夺,故③错误;商业战争主要发生在工业革命之后,与此题时间不符,故④错误,选择A项符合题意。

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四、阅读理解(30分)

Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench (长凳). The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir,” said the poor man, “I am a failure. I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I’ll sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “That is not so hard. Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month.”

A few days later, the rich man went by the poor man’s room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, “you see, when I am down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I’m up there, in that big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn’t get any sleep at all.”

1. The poor man lived in_____ before he met the rich man.

A. the hotel        B. his home      C. the park        D. the car

2. Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and _____

A. waited for the rich man        B. looked at the rich man’s hotel

C. looked at the rich man’s car     D. enjoyed the clean air

3. The poor man moved out of the hotel because_______

A. he didn’t want to live in such a fine room

B. he didn’t like the rich man

C. he couldn’t pay for the room

D. he couldn’t get any sleep at all there

4. In the end, the poor man found it _____to sleep in the hotel.

A. sorry         B. nice         C. sad       D.terrible

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