Question

Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, seldom walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.

When Mary was in hospital with heart trouble in 1989, they decided it was time to get serious. Richard, who worked for a business company, wanted to work for himself, and Mary needed to slow down from her job.

They started by talking to bookstore owners and researching(調(diào)查) the industry. “We knew it had to be a specialty store because we couldn’t match the big chains dollar for dollar,” says Mary. One figure caught her attention: She’d read somewhere that roughly 20 percent of books sold were mysteries(推理小說(shuō)), and many buyers spent more than $300 a year on books. She and Richard were themselves mystery readers.

On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Café near their home. With three children in college, the couple could not spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the whole $ 100, 000 cost, they drew some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.

The store broke even in its first year, with only $ 120,000 in sales. But Mary was always coming up with new ways to attract customers. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited dozens of writers to discuss their stories.

Today Mystery Lovers makes sales of about $ 420,000 a year. After paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $ 34,000.

“The job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income,” says Richard. “This has always been about an enjoyable life for ourselves, not about making a lot of money.”

1. After Mary got well from her illness they began _________.

A. to study industrial management (工業(yè)管理)

B. to buy and read more mystery books

C. to do market research on book business

D. to work harder to save money for the bookstore

2. How did their bookstore do in the first year?

A. They had to borrow money to keep it going.

B. They made just enough to cover all the costs.

C. They succeeded in earning a lot of money.

D. They failed though they worked hard.

3.According to Richard, the main purpose(目的) of running the bookstore is _________.

A. to pay for children’s education

B. to get to know more writers

C. to set up more bookstores

D. to do what they like to do

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.D

【解析】

試題分析：短文大意：像許多書(shū)籍愛(ài)好者，瑪麗和她的丈夫李察戈德曼，很少路過(guò)書(shū)店而到里面看看。他們經(jīng)常談?wù)撚幸惶扉_(kāi)自己的商店。當(dāng)瑪麗于1989因心臟病住醫(yī)院后，他們決定認(rèn)真考慮。他們開(kāi)始跟書(shū)店老板交談開(kāi)展商業(yè)調(diào)查。1992萬(wàn)圣節(jié)前夕，他們?cè)谒麄兗腋浇�開(kāi)了Mystery Lovers書(shū)吧。商店在第一年，只有120000美元的銷售額。但瑪麗總是想出新的方法來(lái)吸引客戶。今天Mystery Lovers每年約420000美元的銷售。納稅后，營(yíng)業(yè)成本和六名兼職銷售員，李察和瑪麗一起獲得大約34000美元。“你喜歡的工作可能不會(huì)有一百萬(wàn)美元的收入，”李察說(shuō)。“這一直是我們愉快的生活，而不是掙一大筆錢。”

1.

2.120,000 in sales 可知選B。

3.

考點(diǎn)：日常生活類閱讀。