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?、? Reading Comprehension (本題共15小題，每題2分，共30分)
Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers markedA, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question.
Passage Three
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what“keeping up with the Joneses" is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earming $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very rich neighborhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went riding horses every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funy side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it "Keeping up with the Joneses” because“Jones”is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses" came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. His series were very popular at that time.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are“Joneses" in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
11.Some people want to“keep up with the Joneses" because they____.
A. want to be as rich as their neighbors
B. want others to know or to think that they are rich
C. don't want others to know they are rich
D. want to be happy
12.It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to____.
A. live in small towns.
B. live in apartments
C. have many neighbors
D. live outside New York City
13.The underlined word neighborhood in the second paragraph means____.
A.a person who lives near another.
B. people living in an area.
C.an area near the place referred to.
D.an area in another town or city.
14.Arthur Momand used the name“Jones" in his series of short stories because“Jones" is____.
A. a popular name in the United States
B. an important name
C. his neighbor 's name
D. not a good name
15.According to the writer, it is____to keep up with the Joneses.
A. correct
B. interesting
C.impossible
D. good