Barbie Dolls In the mid 1940’s, the young ambitious duo Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden pictures f

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问题                            Barbie Dolls
    In the mid 1940’s, the young ambitious duo Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden pictures frames. It was in 1945 that Ruth and Elliot Handler joined with their close friend Harold Mattson to form a company would be named MATTEL, MATT for Mattson, and EL for Elliot.
    In the mid 1950’s, while visiting Switzerland, Ruth Handler purchased a German Lilli doll. Lilli was a shapely, pretty fashion doll first made in 1955. She was originally fashioned after a famous cartoon character in the West German Newsletter, Build.      Lilli is the doll that would inspire Ruth Handler to design the Barbie doll. With the help of her technicians and engineers at Mattel, Barbie was born. Ruth then hired Charlotte Johnson, a fashion designer, to create Barbie’s wardrobe. It was in 1958 that the patent for Barbie was obtained. This would be a fashion doll unlike any of her time. She would be long limbed, shapely, beautiful, and only 11.5 inches tall. Ruth and Elliot would name their new fashion doll after their own daughter, Barbie.
    In 1959, the Barbie doll would make her way to the New York Toy Show and receive a cool reception from the toy buyers.
    Barbie has a universal appeal and collectors both young and old enjoy time spent and memories made with their dolls.
When Ruth and Elliot Handler were young, they had a strong desire ______.

选项 A、to go to school
B、to take photos
C、to make frames
D、to be highly successful

答案D

解析 该题问Ruth和Handler年轻时的抱负。从文中第1句“the young ambitious(有抱负的)”可以看出,他们渴望成功(to be highly successful),所以选D。
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