Marco Polo was from Venice, Italy. In 1271, at age 17, Marco went on a trip with his father and uncle to China. Today people often travel to different places around the world. But it was very hard for people from Europe to visit China then. After three and a half years, the Polos reached China on 1275.

While he was there, Marco Polo worked for Kublai Khan, the emperor(皇帝)of China. He was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans. In his diary, he wrote, “Kublai Khan’s palace is the greatest I’ve ever seen. The streets of the new capital. Daidu, are so straight and so wide.” Paper money also took him by surprise, since it was not yet in use in the West at that time. Homes were heated with “black stones... which burn like wood.” These stones were coal, and most of the Europeans knew little about it then.

After 17 years in China, Marco and his family finally returned to Venice in 1292. After he returned home, Marco completed a book about his trip, full of facts about his wonderful experiences in China.

1.How was Marco Polo’s three-and-a-half-year journey to China?

A.Expensive. B.Comfortable. C.Difficult. D.Smooth.

2.The Polos finally got to China in .

A.1271 B.1275 C.1288 D.1292

3.What did Marco do when he was in China?

A.He worked for the emperor.

B.He learned to build city streets.

C.He helped to dig for coal.

D.He finished a book about his trip.

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A.Magic “black stones”

B.Marco Polo in China

C.Paper money on Daidu

D.Kublai Khan—the greatest emperor

In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue(烤肉) restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new idea: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity(一致性), for the brothers had developed a strict routine(程序) for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks’ sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were satisfied with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.

Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers’ fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise(特许经营) other copies of their restaurants. The agreement struck included the right to duplicate(复制) the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches(拱门).

Today McDonald’s is really a household name. In 1976, McDonald’s had over $1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years in one of the most surprising success stories in modern American business history.

1.This passage mainly talks about ________.

A.the development of fast food services

B.how McDonald’s became a billion-dollar business

C.the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald

D.Ray Kroc’s business talent

2.Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except ________.

A.a drive-in B.a theater C.a cinema D.a barbecue restaurant

3.We may infer(推断) from this passage that ________.

A.Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc

B.the place the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in

C.forty years ago there were lots of fast-food restaurants

D.Ray Kroc was a good businessman

4.The passage suggests that ________.

A.creativity is an important element of business success

B.Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers

C.Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc

D.California is the best place to go into business

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