B
If you ever get the feeling that you’re on your own,then spare a thought for Don Sammons.
The small town of Buford in Wyoming is a single-populated area,as the 60-year-old is the only one living there.
But even though the town is 8,000 feet up a cold mountain,he says he doesn’t feel lonely and he runs a petrol station and convenience shop.
Mr.Sammons left Los Angeles with his wife and bought the tiny town with six buildings to escape their busy lifestyle.
When the couple moved,there were seven people living in Buford working for a railroad that passes nearby,but they all moved away to bigger towns by the mid-1990s.
Then his wife died 15 years ago and his son,now aged 26,moved to Colorado three years ago.So that left Mr.Sammons in Buford on his own.
He gets about 1,000 visitors a day to the village during the summer,which has a billboard proclaiming(宣布) his small empire(帝国),but this drops to around 100 during the winter,in which the winds often blow at 70 mph.
Mr.Sammons turned a school house,which operated between 1905 and 1962,into his office and made another old store built in 1895 into a four-car garage.
He lives in a three-bedroom small wooden house and enjoys 200 yards to his workplace.“I’m the king of the town here,”he said.
Buford was formed in 1866 to protect workers building a railroad.It was once home to 2,000 people,most of whom were foreign migrant (移民) rail workers,and a post office was built in 1880.The town was named Buford after Civil War general John Buford.
The town was sold to a private buyer by the railroad company in 1970 and Mr.Sammons arrived with his wife ten years later after working in the moving business in California.
24.The text is mainly about .
A.Don Sammons’ daily life
B.the history of a small town
C.the custom of a town
D.an old town and its only owner
答案D
解析主旨大意题。综合全文信息可知,全文主要介绍布福德小镇及其唯一的居民唐·萨蒙斯先生。
25.Mr.Sammons bought the town with the main purpose of .
A.making money by doing business
B.opening up the tourism industry
C.leading a peaceful and quiet life
D.following general John Buford
答案C
解析推理判断题。根据第四段的“Mr.SammonsleftLosAngeleswithhiswifeandboughtthetinytownwithsixbuildingstoescapetheirbusylifestyle.”可知,萨蒙斯先生买下布福德小镇的原因是想摆脱忙碌的生活方式,即过一种安逸平静的生活。
26.According to the text,Don Sammons .
A.lives alone but feels satisfied with his life in the town
B.has many friends who come to see him every summer
C.sometimes feels lonely because he has no children
D.is used to the warm weather in winter in the town
答案A
解析推理判断题。由第二段可知唐·萨蒙斯是镇上唯一的居民,再根据第三段中“hesayshedoesn’tfeellonelyandherunsapetrolstationandconvenienceshop”和倒数第三段“Helivesinathree-bedroomsmallwoodenhouseandenjoys200yardstohisworkplace.‘I’mthekingofthetownhere,’hesaid.”可推断他对在布福德小镇的生活非常满意。
27.Which one is the right order of the following events about the town of Buford?
a.A post office was built there.
b.All rail workers left the town.
c.Rail workers started to work there.
d.A school house operated there.
e.A store was built there.
A.c-a-e-b-d B.c-e-a-d-b
C.c-a-d-e-b D.c-a-e-d-b
答案D
解析细节理解题。根据文中信息可知,事件c发生于1866年;事件a发生在1880年;事件e发生于1895年;事件d发生在1905至1962年之间;事件b发生在20世纪90年代中期。故选D项。
