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[1]Although known as an extraordinarily successful businessman, Warren Buffet comes off as a pretty ordinary person.

[2]Looking back on his childhood, one can see how serious he was about making money. Buffet used to go door-to-door and sell soda pop. Later, he also worked at his grandfather’s grocery store. At the ripe age of 11, Buffet bought his first stock(股票). When his family moved to Washington D.C., Buffet became a paperboy for The Washington Post. While still in school, he was making $175 a month, a full-time wage for many young men.

[3]From the beginning, Buffet made his fortune from investing. He started with all the money that he had made from selling pop, delivering papers and so on. Between 1950 and l956, he grew his $9, 800 to $14, 000．From there, he organized investment partnerships with his family and friends, and then gradually drew in more people through very attractive terms.

[4]Buffet applied to Harvard Business School but , making it to be one of the worst admission decisions in Harvard history. The outcome ended up affecting Buffet’s life deeply, for he ended up attending Columbia Business School, where he studied under Benjamin Graham, the father of securities analysis who provided the foundation for Buffet’s grand success.

[5]Buffet is a person of habit—same house, same office, same city. He doesn’t collect houses or cars or works of art, and he hates companies that waste money on such goods. Instead, he has established the Buffet Foundation, with a detailed plan on how to invest his money more wisely to society.

1.What kind of person is Buffet according to Paragraph 1? (no more than 10 words)

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2.What does the writer intend to tell us in Paragraph 2? (no more than 10 words)

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3.According to Paragraph 3, how did Buffet start his investment? (no more than 10 words)

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4.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 3 words)

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5.Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5.

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1.He is an extraordinarily successful but pretty ordinary person

2.From childhood, Buffet was serious /wise enough to make money.

或How Buffet made money even when he was young.

3. With all the money that he had made before.

4.was turned down / was not admitted/was not successful /was refused / failed.

5.He dislikes change.

或 He doesn’t like change.

或 He hates change.

或 He was not willing to change.

或 He was unwilling to change.

【解析】

試題分析：

1. is an extraordinarily successful but pretty ordinary person第一段說明他是一個(gè)事業(yè)上 很成功的商業(yè)天才，但是他也是從一個(gè)普通人慢慢成長(zhǎng)起來的。

2. childhood, Buffet was serious /wise enough to make money. 第二段中描述了從很小的時(shí)候，他就開始自己掙錢，11歲就投資股票，送報(bào)紙等等。這些都說明他在努力掙錢。

或How Buffet made money even when he was young.

3. With all the money that he had made before. 根據(jù)He started with all the money that he had made from selling pop, delivering papers and so on可知他把以前掙得錢都用來投資了。

4. turned down / was not admitted/was not successful /was refused / failed. 。根據(jù)but可知表示轉(zhuǎn)折，也就是他沒有被哈佛錄取，這也許哈佛歷史上最糟糕的一場(chǎng)錄取了

5. dislikes change.

或 He doesn’t like change.

或 He hates change.

或 He was not willing to change.

或 He was unwilling to change. 根據(jù)下一句same house, same office, same city.可知他要住同一個(gè)房子，同樣的辦公室，都說明他是一個(gè)不愿意改變的人。

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