(河南)河南省三门峡市陕州中学2015届高三英语考前适应性考试试题.docVIP

2014-2015学年高三考前适应性考试 英 语 试 卷 试卷满分：150分 考试时间：110分钟 第I卷 (选择题 共70分) 第一部分 听力略 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分4分） (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，并在答题上将该项涂黑。 A For the past two years, 8-year-old Harli Jordean from Stoke Newington, London, has been selling marbles(弹珠). His successful marble company, Marble King, sells all things marble-related － from affordable tubs of the glass playthings to significantly expensive items like Duke of York solitaire tables － sourced, purchased and processed by the mini-CEO himself. “I like having my own company. I like being the boss,” Harli told the Mirror. With profits now in the thousands, “the world’s youngest CEO” has had to get his mother and older brothers to help him meet the growing demand. Harli launched Marble King after swapping marbles at school led to schoolchildren consuming his marble collection. Yes, he literally “lost his marbles.” Harli and his mother, Tina, turned to the Internet to find replacements. Harli saw an empty space online: the marbles he wanted were hard to find. Within months, Harli had his own marble-selling website － and orders started pouring in. Tina says her sons attachment to marbles started when he was just 6. “His attachment became so passionate that we started calling him the Marble King — so when he wanted to set up a website it was the natural name for it,” she told The Sun. “I never thought it would become so popular － we are struggling to cope with the number of orders at times.” The 8-year-old boy has his sights set on expanding his business and launching his own brand of marbles. “Sometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bit. But his dream is still to own Britains biggest marble shop and open stores around the world,” Tina told The Daily Mail. “At the moment he is annoying me by creating his own Marble King marbles － so that could well be the next step for him.” 21.Harli’s Marble Company became popular as soon as he launched it because ______. A. it was