13.Last April,on a visit to the new Mall of America near Minneapolis,I carried with me a small book provided for the reporters by the public relations office.It included a variety of"fun facts"about the mall,for example,140,000hot dogs are sold each week,there are 10,000full time'jobs,44sets of moving stairs and 17lifts,12,750parking places,13,000tons of steel and﹩1million is drawn weekly from 8ATMs.
Opened in the summer of 1992,the mall was built where the former Minneapolis Stadium had been.It was only a five-minute drive from the Minneapolis St.Paul International Airport.With 4.2million square feet of floor space-twenty-two times the size of the average American shopping center-the Mail of America was the largest shopping and family recreation center under one roof in the United States.
I know already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers,not only as a marketplace,but as a national tourist attraction.Eleven thousand articles,the small book informed me,had been written about the mall.Four hundred trees had been planted in its gardens,﹩625million had been spent building it,and 350stores were already in business.Three thousand bus tours were expected each year along with a half-million Canadian visitors and 200,000Japanese tourists.Sales was at﹩650million for 2008and at﹩1billion for 2009.Pop singers and film stars such as Janet Jackson and Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the mall.It was five times larger than Red Square and it included 2.3miles of hallways and used almost twice as Knott's Camp Snoopy.
41.From the text we know that the Mall of America isB.
A.near an old stadium B.close to an airport
C.higher than the Eiffel Tower D.bigger than most American parks
42.By saying"fun facts"in paragraph 1,the author means thatB.
A.they are largely imagined B.they are surprising figures
C.they give exact descriptions D.they make people feel uneasy
43.Why does the author mention popular stars who have been to the mall?A
A.To show its power of attraction.
B.To show that few rich people like to shop there.
C.To tell the public about a new movie being made about it.
D.To tell people that they have chances of meeting famous stars there.
44.We can infer from the text thatD.
A.Japanese visitors are most welcome to the mall
B.Canadian visitors would spend﹩1billion at the mail
C.Knott's Camp Snoopy was next to the Mall of America
D.the Mall of America was designed to serve more than one purpose.
分析 本文屬于記敘文閱讀,作者通過這篇文章向我們介紹了美國購物中心,它距離明尼阿波利斯圣保羅國際機場只有十五分鐘的路程,它不只可以作為一個市場,它還是一個國家的旅游景點,它的吸引力非常大,有很多明星都曾經(jīng)去過這個購物中心.
解答 41.B 細節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)第二段It was only a five-minute drive from the Minneapolis St.Paul International Airport.可知從美國購物中心到明尼阿波利斯圣保羅國際機場只有十五分鐘的路程,因此可知美國購物中心離機場很近,故選B.
42.B 推理判斷題,根據(jù)第一段It included a variety of"fun facts"about the mall,for example,140,000hot dogs are sold each week,there are 10,000full time'jobs,44sets of moving stairs and 17lifts,12,750parking places,13,000tons of steel and﹩1million is drawn weekly from 8ATMs.有這里的數(shù)字可知作者在這里說這個商場中有"有趣的事實"是說這些數(shù)字是令人驚訝的,故選B.
43.A 推理判斷題,根據(jù)最后一段Pop singers and film stars such as Janet Jackson and Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the mall.可知作者在這里提到有很多明星曾經(jīng)去過這個購物中心,是為了向我們展示這個購物中心吸引了很多人,故選A.
44.D 細節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)第三段I know already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers,not only as a marketplace,but as a national tourist attraction.可知美國購物中心的設計不只是將它作為一個市場,而且它還是一個國家的旅游景點,故選D.
點評 考查學生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力.做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確選擇.在做推理判斷題時不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.