高三英语 最新6年高考4年模拟试题汇编 阅读理解之人物传记类.doc

第三节 人物传记类 第一部分 六年高考题荟萃 2010年高考题 Passage 1 (10·安徽A篇) The engineer Camilla Olivetti was 40 years old when he started the company in 1908. At his factory in Ivrea, he designed and produced the first Italian typewriter. Today the company’s head office is still in Ivrea, near Turin, but the company is much larger than it was in those days and there are offices all around the world, By 1930 there was a staff of 700 and the company turned out 13.000 machines a year. Some went to customers in Italy, but Olivetti exported more typewriters to other countries. Camillo’s son, Adriano, started wo