下面的短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~30题要求从所给的6个选项中为第1~5段各其中4段选择1个最佳标题;(2)第
27~30题要求从所给的4个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。
The Making of a Success Story
1. IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer, and the man behind it
is Ingvar Kamprad, one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs (企业家). Born
in Sweden in 1926, Kamprad was a natural business man. As a child, he enjoyed
selling things and made small profits from selling matches, seeds and pencils in
his community. When Kamprad was 17, his father gave him some money as a reward
for his good grades. Naturally he used it to start up a business — IKEA.
2. IKEA’s name comes from Kamprads’initials (I. K.) and the
place where he grew up (E and A). Today IKEA is known for its modern, minimalist
(最低限要求者) furniture, but it was not a furniture company in the beginning. Rather,
IKEA sold all kinds of miscellaneous (杂货) goods. Kamprad’s wares included
anything that he cou