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单元综合测评(二)　Unit 2 The universal language 【XZB2016TBYLYYX08014】(时间：100分钟；满分：120分) Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分满分30分)阅读下列短文从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。A When he was Just 19，Michael Dell started the company that would dominate the industry. At the time，IBM personal computers were sold in stores for about $3，000.After taking them apart and rebuilding them，Dell realized the components(零部件)could be bought at one fourth of the price.Soon he was buying components to reduce the cost.A good business decision it meant his room was starting to look like a mechanics shop. “I was quite excited about the possibilities for personal computers and how they could change society.I had this idea to sell the products directly to the user over the phone，”he said.College plans and his parents expectations bothered him a lot.But Michael Dell was determined.He drove off to the University of Texas at Austin in August 1983 in a car hed bought with earnings from selling newspapers.He was surprised that his mother wasnt suspicious about the three computers in the back seat.By November，news reached his parents that he wasnt attending classes.On a surprise visit to Austin，they caught their son on spot.Michael Dell told his father that he wanted to compete with IBM. Although Michael agreed to focus on his studies，the business chances and the timing couldnt have been better.The public was becoming more interested in computers，but no one was producing them.In early May，a week before his final exams，Michael started Dell Computer Corporation with $1，000.He took his exams，and then dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year.It was time to try out his direct-to-customer business model. “Three years later，”Dell said，“we had already achieved annual sales of about $150 million.I was 22 years old then.” 1．What does the underlined word“dominate”in Paragraph 1 mean? A．Protect. B．Develop.2．Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 2? A．Dell discovered a good chance to make money. B．Dell coul