《安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校高三英语阅读理解限时训练 52》.docVIP

安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2015届高三英语阅读理解限时训练（19） A 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, 140,000 hot dogs are sold each week, there are 10,000 full time jobs, 44 sets of moving stairs and 17 lifts, 12,750 parking places, 13,000 tons of steel and $ 1 million is drawn weekly from 8 ATMs． 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 4.2 million 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, $ 625 million had been spent building it, and 350 stores were already in business．Three thousand bus tours were expected each year along with a half - million Canadian visitors and 200,000 Japanese tourists. Sales was at $ 650 million for 2008 and at $ 1 billion 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 2．3 miles of hallways and used almost twice as Knott s Camp Snoopy． 41．From the text we know that the Mall of America is ______． 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 that _____． A．they are largely imagined B．they are surprising figures C．they give exact descriptions