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H1 阅读表达
H1 [2013·山东卷]
阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题(请注意76、77、79和80四个小题后面的词数要求)。
[1] Jean Paul Getty was born in 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He becam e a millionaire when he was only 24. His father was wealthy, but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.”
[2] But money ________. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty's children had very happy lives.
[3] Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In_spite_of_his_great_wealth,_Getty_was_a_miser. Every evening, he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephone in the guests' bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.
[4] In 1973, kidnappers took his 16－year－old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty's son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty r efused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty's son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally, Getty agreed to lend the money, but at 4 percent interest.
[5] Getty started a museum at his home in Malibu, California. He bought many important and beautiful
