2014届高考英语阅读理解高效测评3.docVIP

2014届高考英语阅读理解高效测评 阅读理解 Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then. It wasn’t easy getting hired. But once you were there, I found, you were in. Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed（终身聘用）until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there—moving from an ordinary reporter to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I stuck with it. Instead, I had made a decision to leave. I entered my boss’s office. Would he be angry? I wondered. He had a famous temper. “Matt, we have to have a talk,” I began. “I came to the Globe when I was twenty-four. Now I’ m forty. There’ s a lot I want to do in life. I’m resigning. （辞职）” “To another paper?” he asked. I reached into my coat pocket, but didn’t say anything. I handed him a letter that explained everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. We were at a rare turning point in history. I wanted to be directly engaged in the change. I’ m glad for you, he said, quite out of my expectation. I just came from a board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can deal with. But much of it we can’ t, he went on. I wish you all the luck in the world, he concluded. And if it doesn’t work out, remember, there is always a place here for you. 　　Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody--even though I’d be risking all the financial security I had carefully built up. 　　Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into a billion-dollar property. I?m resigning, Bill, I said. He listenedr while I gave him the story. He wasn’t looking angry either. After a pause, he said, Golly, I wish I were in your shoes. 12．From the passage we know that the Globe is a famous 。 A．newspaper B．magazine C．temple D．person 13．If the writer stayed with the Globe 。 A．he woul