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13．Last April，on a visit to the new Mall of America near Minneapolis，I carried with me a small book provided for the reporters by the public relations office．It included a variety of"fun facts"about the mall，for example，140，000hot dogs are sold each week，there are 10，000full time'jobs，44sets of moving stairs and 17lifts，12，750parking places，13，000tons of steel and﹩1million is drawn weekly from 8ATMs．
Opened in the summer of 1992，the mall was built where the former Minneapolis Stadium had been．It was only a five-minute drive from the Minneapolis St．Paul International Airport．With 4.2million square feet of floor space-twenty-two times the size of the average American shopping center-the Mail of America was the largest shopping and family recreation center under one roof in the United States．
I know already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers，not only as a marketplace，but as a national tourist attraction．Eleven thousand articles，the small book informed me，had been written about the mall．Four hundred trees had been planted in its gardens，﹩625million had been spent building it，and 350stores were already in business．Three thousand bus tours were expected each year along with a half-million Canadian visitors and 200，000Japanese tourists．Sales was at﹩650million for 2008and at﹩1billion for 2009．Pop singers and film stars such as Janet Jackson and Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the mall．It was five times larger than Red Square and it included 2.3miles of hallways and used almost twice as Knott's Camp Snoopy．

41．From the text we know that the Mall of America isB．
A．near an old stadium                B．close to an airport
C．higher than the Eiffel Tower       D．bigger than most American parks
42．By saying"fun facts"in paragraph 1，the author means thatB．
A．they are largely imagined          B．they are surprising figures
C．they give exact descriptions       D．they make people feel uneasy
43．Why does the author mention popular stars who have been to the mall？A
A．To show its power of attraction．
B．To show that few rich people like to shop there．
C．To tell the public about a new movie being made about it．
D．To tell people that they have chances of meeting famous stars there．
44．We can infer from the text thatD．
A．Japanese visitors are most welcome to the mall
B．Canadian visitors would spend﹩1billion at the mail
C．Knott's Camp Snoopy was next to the Mall of America
D．the Mall of America was designed to serve more than one purpose．

分析 本文属于记叙文阅读，作者通过这篇文章向我们介绍了美国购物中心，它距离明尼阿波利斯圣保罗国际机场只有十五分钟的路程，它不只可以作为一个市场，它还是一个国家的旅游景点，它的吸引力非常大，有很多明星都曾经去过这个购物中心．

解答 41．B  细节理解题，根据第二段It was only a five-minute drive from the Minneapolis St．Paul International Airport．可知从美国购物中心到明尼阿波利斯圣保罗国际机场只有十五分钟的路程，因此可知美国购物中心离机场很近，故选B．
42．B  推理判断题，根据第一段It included a variety of"fun facts"about the mall，for example，140，000hot dogs are sold each week，there are 10，000full time'jobs，44sets of moving stairs and 17lifts，12，750parking places，13，000tons of steel and﹩1million is drawn weekly from 8ATMs．有这里的数字可知作者在这里说这个商场中有"有趣的事实"是说这些数字是令人惊讶的，故选B．
43．A  推理判断题，根据最后一段Pop singers and film stars such as Janet Jackson and Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the mall．可知作者在这里提到有很多明星曾经去过这个购物中心，是为了向我们展示这个购物中心吸引了很多人，故选A．
44．D  细节理解题，根据第三段I know already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers，not only as a marketplace，but as a national tourist attraction．可知美国购物中心的设计不只是将它作为一个市场，而且它还是一个国家的旅游景点，故选D．

点评 考查学生的细节理解和推理判断能力．做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确选择．在做推理判断题时不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．

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