【題目】 When her five daughters were young,Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity(團(tuán)結(jié)).To show this,she held up one chopstick,representing one person.Then she easily broke it into two pieces.Next,she tied several chopsticks together,representing 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 Elizabeth 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.”

Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996,with three generations of Ans working together.Now the Ans’ corporation 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】Helene tied several chopsticks together to show______.

A.the strength of family unity

B.the difficulty of growing up

C.the advantage of chopsticks

D.the best way of giving a lesson

【2】We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family______.

A.started a business in 1975

B.left Vietnam without much money

C.bought a restaurant in San Francisco

D.opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【解析】

本文為一篇記敘文。文章主要講述了“一根筷子易折斷，一捆筷子抱成團(tuán)”，也就是團(tuán)結(jié)力量大的道理。來(lái)自越南的Helen An家族正是靠著團(tuán)結(jié)一心，靠著三代人團(tuán)結(jié)一心，在美國(guó)成就了一番大事業(yè)。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段When her five daughters were young,Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity(團(tuán)結(jié)).她的五個(gè)女兒小時(shí)候,海琳總是告訴他們,團(tuán)結(jié)就是力量，及第一段This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.這個(gè)家庭團(tuán)聚的教訓(xùn)伴隨著女兒們成長(zhǎng)。可知，海倫把幾根筷子系在一起以示家庭團(tuán)結(jié)的力量。故選A項(xiàng)。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段However,when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975,they didn’t have much money.然而，1975年，當(dāng)海倫和她的丈夫丹尼離開他們?cè)谠侥系募視r(shí)，他們并沒(méi)有多少錢。可知，他們離開越南時(shí)，沒(méi)有什么錢。故選B項(xiàng)。

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