文档介绍：河南省洛阳市2017-2018学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题
第一部分 听力(共两节, 满分30分)
做题时, 先将答案标在试卷上, 录音内容结束后, 你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第D)中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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For someone who is such an extraordinarily successful investor, Warren Buffett is recognized as a pretty ordinary guy. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, for more than 40 years Buffett has lived in the same gray house on Farnam Street that he bought for $31,500. He wears shabby suits, drives his own car, drinks Cherry Coke, and is more likely to be found in a Dairy
Queen than a . four-star restaurant.
Looking back on his childhood, one can seethe knowledgeable businessman. Even as a young child, Buffett was pretty serious about making money. He used to go door-to-door and sell soda pop. He and a friend used math to develop a system for picking winners in horseracing. Later, he also worked at his grandfather’s grocery store. At the age of 11, Buffett bought his first stock(股票). When he was 14, Buffett spent $1, 200 on 40 acres of farmland in Nebraska and soon began collecting rent from a local farmer, Buffett wasn’t keen on going to college but ended up at Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania—his father encouraged him to go.
Buffett’s investment strategy mirrors his lifestyle and overall philosophy. He doesn’t collect houses or cars or works of art, and he looks down on companies that waste money on so us
eless things, such as private dining rooms, and high-priced racing cars. He is a creature of habit—same house, same office, same city, same soda—and dislikes change. In his investments, that means holding on to “core holdings” such as American Express, Coca-Cola, and The Washington Post Co. forever.
21. What can we know about Warren Buffet from this passage?
A. He is a successful investor and looks ordinary.
B. He leads an ordinary life and drives his own expensive racing car.
C. He spent all his life in the same gray house on Farnam Street.
D. He prefers to have dinner in a four-star res