For the past two years, 8-year-old Harli Jordean from Stoke Newington, London, has been selling marbles(彈珠). His successful marble company, Marble King, sells all things marble-related － from affordable tubs of the glass playthings to significantly expensive items like Duke of York solitaire tables － sourced, purchased and processed by the mini-CEO himself.
“I like having my own company. I like being the boss,” Harli told the Mirror.
With profits now in the thousands, “the world’s youngest CEO” has had to get his mother and older brothers to help him meet the growing demand.
Harli launched Marble King after swapping marbles at school led to schoolchildren consuming his marble collection. Yes, he literally “l(fā)ost his marbles.” Harli and his mother, Tina, turned to the Internet to find replacements.
Harli saw an empty space online: the marbles he wanted were hard to find. Within months, Harli had his own marble-selling website － and orders started pouring in.
Tina says her son's attachment to marbles started when he was just 6.
“His attachment became so passionate that we started calling him the Marble King — so when he wanted to set up a website it was the natural name for it,” she told The Sun.
“I never thought it would become so popular － we are struggling to cope with the number of orders at times.”
The 8-year-old boy has his sights set on expanding his business and launching his own brand of marbles.
“Sometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bit. But his dream is still to own Britain's biggest marble shop and open stores around the world,” Tina told The Daily Mail.
“At the moment he is annoying me by creating his own Marble King marbles － so that could well be the next step for him.”
小題1:Harli’s Marble Company became popular as soon as he launched it because ______.
A．it was run by “the world’s youngest CEO”
B．it filled the gap of online marble trade
C．Harli was fascinated with marble collection
D．Harli met the growing demand of the customers
小題2:How many mass media are mentioned in the passage?
A．One B．Two C．Three D．Four
小題3:The underlined expression “scale them back” is closest in meaning to ______.
A．hold them downB．carry them out
C．set them asideD．clear them away
小題4:What message do the last two paragraphs carry?
A．Conflicts often occur between Harli Jordean and his family.
B．Harli’s mother and brothers are worried about Marble King’s future.
C．Marble King marbles will surely attract more fans around the world.
D．The “Marble King” has great ambition for his Marble King company.

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:D
文章解釋了Harli和他的彈珠王國。
小題1:推斷題。第五段第一行Harli saw an empty space online: the marbles he wanted were hard to find.可知網(wǎng)上很難找到彈珠，所以他的店彌補了這一空白。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。第二段the Mirror.倒數(shù)第五段The Sun；倒數(shù)第二段The Daily Mail.
小題3:猜測詞義題。由前面的grand盛大的，可知Harli的想法有時候過于大膽，他們不得不減小一點。所填的詞與grand是反義詞。
小題4:主旨大意題。由最后兩段的內(nèi)容可知。
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C．Talking with a friend can cure your illness．
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