题型：阅读选择 题类：常考题 难易度：容易
浙江省温州市2016-2017学年九年级下学期四校第1次联考英语测试
阅读下面短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart. They will, in a lifetime, push the shopping carts many miles, but few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. To create the first shopping cart, Goldman used folding chairs. He out one basket on the seat, and he raised the chair by putting wheels under the legs. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4, 1937, Goldman's first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn't wait to see them using his invention. However, Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try. After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren't using his carts.
"Don't you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?" one shopper replied.
Goldman wasn't beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. Not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today's shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman's original model. Perhaps that's one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
a. Many shoppers began to use the shopping carts.
b. Goldman invented the shopping carts.
c. Goldman paid some people for using the shopping carts.
d. Few shoppers would like to use the shopping carts.
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At the age of 1 year and 152 days, Ace-Liam Ankrah from Ghana became the youngest male artist in the world.
Ace-Liam became interested in painting when he was just 6 months old. Ace-Liam's mother, Eghan, is an artist. A few years ago, she{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Arts and Cocktails Studio to offer painting classes.
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That's {#blank#}4{#/blank#}his first painting, The Crawl, was born. Eghan was {#blank#}5{#/blank#}by Ace-Liam's talent(天赋). After that, Ace-Liam continued to draw. Last year, Eghan decided to apply for(申请) the world record(纪录) for her son．However, someone told her that {#blank#}6{#/blank#}Ace-Liam wanted to break the record, he needed to exhibit and sell his paintings. So she held an exhibition for Ace-Liam in January. And she sold nine out of his ten {#blank#}7{#/blank#}.
On May 20, Ace-Liam entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's youngest male artist.
Ace-Liam still loves painting. There is a corner in his mother's studio just for him. He often paints on {#blank#}8{#/blank#}own there.
"He often spends the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}day painting in the corner. He's not just playing there. {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he's growing up there, " said Eghan.
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