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Ⅱ.阅读七选五[2015 .山东潍坊高三一模]

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Do you have a spare room in your house? Do you like to share your driveway in front of your garage with others?

_9  Many people are benefiting from this new business of renting.

Perhaps the best-known example of a company in this field is Airbnb―an American Web business which allows you to rent out your spare room to holidaymakers. It says it oper?ates in 34 ，000 cities and it has 800,000 listings of rooms and apartments. 10_

   A British company is doing something with parking spaces. JustPark's founder, Anthony Eskinazi, says, "When I had the original idea, I spotted a driveway close to a sports stadium. It would have been so convenient if I could have just parked in that driveway rather than in a commercial car park. " 11 Around 20, 000 people have advertised their spaces on the website? and he says around half a million driv?ers use it.

    12   They are people who run things like traditional hotels and commercial car parks. They are afraid of ending up losing money.

    13    Regulations for the new business are unclear. How will renting out your driveway affect your neighbours? Because this is a new business world, those rules aren't there yet.

 

A.     They seem to have occupied the majority of the market.

B.     Both of these can help you make money.

C.     And there is another problem.

D.     And his great idea has proved a success.

E.     But the new business of renting has its competitors.

F.      There are many ways to earn money.

G.     A commercial car park is inconvenient.

Answer 1

Ⅱ.阅读七选五

[文章大意]本文是一篇说明文，介绍了一种新的租赁形式，即把家里空闲的地方租赁出去。

9. B空格前提到了闲置房间和车库前的车道，空格后接着说"许多人巳经从这种新的租赁生意中获益"，所以空格处表达的是"把房子和车道租出去可以使你赚钱"，故答案为B。

 10.A 根据空格前的"…it operates in 34, 000 cities and it has 800,000 listings of rooms and apartments."可知，Airbnb的租赁业务已经占据了大部分市场份额，故答案为A。

11.D 根据空格后的"Around 20,000 people have advertised their spaces on the website, and he says around half a million drivers use it."可知，这项租赁业务获得了成功，故答案为0。

12.E前面的内容叙述这项租赁业务好的方面，而空格后讲的是经营那些传统项目的人，据此推断"这个新行业也有竞争者"，故答案为E。

13. C根据空格后"这个新行业的规则尚未明确。租赁车道是否影响邻居？"等信息可知，这是这项新业务遇到的另一个问题，故答案为C。