Question

When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she pick up one chopstick, taking it as one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, taking them as a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.

Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, "Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”

With three generations of Ans working together, now the Ans' business makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.

1. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. How to Run a Corporation Well

B. Strength Comes from Peace

C. How to Achieve a Big Dream

D. Family Unity Builds Success

2.What can we infer about the An’s daughters?

A. They went out to work for themselves before graduation.

B. They all would not like to work in their family business.

C. They were deeply influenced by what Helene taught them.

D. There always were disagreements among family members

3. Helene once used chopsticks to show ______

A. the quality of the chopsticks

B. the difficulty of being united

C. the strength of family unity

D. how to be a strong person

4.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An’s family ______

A. began to run a restaurant in 1975

B. left Vietnam without much money

C. bought a restaurant in Los Angeles

D. opened a sandwich shop in San Francisco

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.C

4.B

【解析】

试题分析: Helene An有5个女儿，她在她们很小的时候就告诉她们，家人团结才能成功。孩子们牢记在心，经过艰苦的努力，他们从穷困潦倒到卡尼了自己的家族生意，成功就在于家族的团结。

1.D 细节理解题。根据第一段的开头When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结).可知，本段的意思是家人团结就能成功。故选D。

2.C 推理判断题。根据第二段的This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up. 和第三段的Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace.可知，妈妈告诉孩子们团结就是力量，孩子们牢记在心。故选C。

3.C 细节理解题。根据第一段的叙述可知，妈妈想告诉她的孩子们一家人团结的力量。故选C。

4.B 推理判断题。根据第二段However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. 可知，他们没有多少钱。Danny的妈妈在旧金山经营一家三明治店。故选B。

考点：考查故事类短文阅读。