山西省太原五中2014-2015学年高二上学期10月月考 英语
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。并将答案写在答题纸上．
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Richard Branson, born in 1950, is a successful businessman. He had started to try his first business at the age of 15, including trying to grow trees．
While a little boy, Branson attended Scatch School and later Stowe School. Because of an accident, however, he was expelled from school, which made him an early dropout at 16.
After quitting school, he moved back to London, where he began his first successful business. He started a magazine about youth culture called The Student. It was produced by students, for students, and was launched in 1966. Branson was able to attract significant advertising from companies wishing to enter the student market.
The 1960s in London were known as the "Swinging Sixties". Although Branson was living the life of a hippy(嬉皮士), he also had a keen（敏锐的） business sense. He set up a mail order record company called Virgin to complement（补充） the student magazine. Branson later said he got into business by accident－not to make money, but out of frustration that things weren’t better.
With profits from his magazine and mail order business, he was able to get a record shop on Oxford Street, London. As the record business expanded, Branson created his own record label, Virgin Music, in 1972. Within a year, Branson had a great stroke of luck. His first artist, Mike Oldfield, recorded the album Tubular Bells, and this proved to be a success.
In 1984, Branson branched out into his biggest business venture－forming Virgin Atlantic Airways. However, in 1992, Branson had to sell Virgin records to EMI for £500m to help keep a struggling Virgin Atlantic afloat(能维持下去).
Despite his successful careers, Branson has also experienced some failures. But with all his experience, Richard Branson has gradually formed a different approach to running a business.
1. The underlined phrase "was expelled from" in the second paragraph probably means“___".
A. was forced to leave B. was upset with
C. was looked down on by D. was not interested in
2. The passage is probably followed by a paragraph about __________
A. Branson ' s business wisdom B. Branson ' s future business plans
C. Branson ' s failures D. Virgin Atlantic ' s final success
