59. The best title for the text would be 　　　　　　

A. The Origin of Olivetti.　　　　　　　 B. The Success of Olivetti.

C. The History of Olivetti　　　　　　　 D. The Production of Olivetti.

答案：56-59　 ABDC

Passage 2

(10·福建A篇)

　 F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University　 for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

　 His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary:“ My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

　 This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

　 However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. while his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

58. What do we know about Olivetti?

A. It produced the best typewriter in the world.

B. It designed the world’s first mainframe computer.

C. It exported more typewriters than other companies.

D. It has five independent companies with its head office in Ivrea.

57. What was probably the direct result of Olivetti’s falling behind in electronic technology

A. Adriano’s death　　 　　　　　　　　B.A period of financial problems

C. Its faster progress　　　　　　　　　 D. Its agreements with other companies.

2010年高考题

Passage 1

(10·安徽A篇)

The engineer Camilla Olivetti was 40 years old when he started the company in 1908. At his factory in Ivrea, he designed and produced the first Italian typewriter. Today the company’s head office is still in Ivrea, near Turin, but the company is much larger than it was in those days and there are offices all around the world,

　　 By 1930 there was a staff of 700 and the company turned out 13.000 machines a year. Some went to customers in Italy, but Olivetti exported more typewriters to other countries.

　　 Camillo’s son, Adriano, started working for the company in 1924 and later he became the boss. He introduced a standard speed for the production line and he employed technology and design specialist. The company developed new and better typewriters and then calculators(计算器). In 1959 it produced the ELEA computer system. This was the first mainframe(主机) computer designed and made in Italy.

After Adriano died in 1960, the company had a period of financial problem. Other companies, especially the Japanese, made faster progress in electronic technology than the Italian company.

In 1978, Carlo de Benedetti became the new boss. Olivetti increased its marketing and service networks and made agreements with other companies to design and produce more advanced office equipment. Soon it became one of the world’s lesding companies in information technology and commucations. There are now five independent companies in the Olivetti group-one for personal computers, one for other office equipment, one for systems and service, and two for telecommunications.

56.From the text we learn that 　　　　　　

A. by 1930 Olivetti produced 13.000 typewriters a year

B. Olivetti earned more in the 1960s than in the 1950s

C. some of Olivetti’s 700 staff regularly visited customers in Italy

D. Olivetti set up offices in other countries from the very beginning

21．概述下面漫画的内容，并发表看法。(4分)

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19．把下面四个句子改写成一个双重否定式的长单句。(4分)

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③ 敌人不怀好意。　　　　　 　　　　　　 ④ 敌人待在它的旁边。

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18．根据下面文字提供的语境，补写横线上空缺的语句，使之表意完整。(4分)

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