2014重庆合川市高考英语一轮训练：阅读理解9及答案.docVIP

重庆合川市2014高考英语阅读理解一轮练习（9）及答案 Many people who are rich are also well-known. Ted Sweeney was an excep-tion to this rule. His family moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles when he was one month old. Thats where he grew up. At the age of seventeen he was hit by a train. Although he was not seriously hurt, the railway paid him $ 25, 000. Instead of going to college, he bought a small store. Six months later, the government bought his land to build a new highway. He sold it for $ 95, 000. With this money he moved to Detroit. He started a small company that made parts for car manufacturers (制造商). It was very successful and by the time he was 23, he was a millionaire. When he was 24, he got married. He and his wife had three daughters in the next five years. By the time he was 30, he had had over ten million dollars. Then tragedy struck. He was involved in a traffic accident. He did not die but his wife and daughters did. Six months later, he sold everything he owned and put his money in stocks (股票； 股份). Ted then moved to New York. He lived for the next forty years in a one-room apartment. He spent most of his days wandering through the city, looking in garbage cans for food. He never worked. He rarely talked to anyone except himself. Most people were afraid of him. His clothes were always old and dirty. Shortly before he died, he moved back to Los Angeles. After spending two weeks there, he was put in prison because he had no money and no job. City workers tried to help him. They offered him work, but he would not work. Towards the end, he would not talk to anyone at all. When he died, he was a lonely man. After his stocks were sold and all the taxes paid, there was over a hundred million dollars left. 判断正误。 6. Sweeney was born in Los Angeles. 7. In the traffic accident only two people died. 8. Ted returned to Los Angeles shortly before he died. 9. Ted led a miserable life since he sold his land. 10. Ted Sweeney was a person who was very rich but not very famous.