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阶段性综合检测(一) 第一部分　听力(共两节，满分30分)(略) 第二部分　阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节　(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30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。 A (2015·宁夏银川一中高三月考) Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was born in Kingfish, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his fathers store while attending school. This was his first retailing(零售业)experience and he really enjoyed it. After graduation，he began his own career as a retail merchant. He soon opened his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart specialized in name brands at low prices and Sam Walton was surprised at the success. Soon a chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America. Waltons management style was popular with employees and he fuunded some of the basic concepts of management that are still in use today. After taking the company public in 1970, Walton introduced his“profit sharing plan”. The profit sharing plan was a plan for Wal-Mart employees to improve their income dependent on the profits of the store. Sam Walton believed that“individuals dont win, while teams do”. Employees at Wal-Mart stores were offered stock options(认股选择权)and store discounts. These benefits are commonplace today, but Walton was among the first to implement(实施)them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy customers and more sales. He also believed that by giving employees a part of the company and making their success dependent on the companys success, they would care about the company. By the 1980s，Wal-Mart had sales of over one billion dollars and over three hundred stores across North America. Wal-Marts unique decentralized(分散的)distribution system, also Wahons idea, created the edge needed to further encourage growth in the 1980s during growing complaints that the“superstore”was stopping smaller and traditional stores from developing.By 1991, Wal-Mart was the largest US retailer with 1,700 stores. Walton remained active in managing the company, as president and CEO until 1988 and chairman