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An avid Bush supporter who already has 25 shopping malls to his name, Congel himself is not a man you would expect to entertain

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问题    An avid Bush supporter who already has 25 shopping malls to his name, Congel himself is not a man you would expect to entertain an eccentric clean-energy vision. The project—Destiny U.S.A., a mega-mall—first seized him in 2001, soon after 9/11—and after the project was under way—during a visit to the D-Day beaches in Normandy. "There I was looking at those pure white graves of tens of thousands of kids that died for freedom," Congel reflects, sitting on the veranda of his 6,000-acre farm just outside Syracuse, where he has imported Russian wild boar and other exotic game for hunting. "Today our kids are dying in a war for oil. Petroleum addiction is destroying our country, our economy, our environment."
   Several months after returning from Normandy, Congel announced that not a drop of fossil fuel would be used in the making of Destiny. Almost overnight the mission of the project changed. It went from the mall that could save the depressed economy of Syracuse to the mall that could save America by establishing a new model for green commercial development. But will shoppers actually want to travel from far and wide to a little-known city’s eco-friendly mall? And even with the green tax benefits, it is vastly more expensive to power Destiny with renewable sources than with conventional grid energy—so where’s the financial logic?
   Here’s where Congel’s schemes to create "monster profits" come in. Intel, Clear Channel, Cisco, Sony and Microsoft are among the brands that Destiny has recruited to supply its retail, entertainment, security and energy technologies. Many suppliers are planning to build local offices that will aid the Syracuse economy, and all have agreed to participate in the on-site development of new technologies that could be tested on the captive audience of mall-goers. (Congel will be a co-owner of the patents on all inventions.) A group of companies hopes to perfect a new wireless radio frequency identification technology to enable customers to purchase items instantly without waiting in line. The Department of Homeland Security and A.D.T., a home-security company, have discussed testing new devices that will track all visitors entering and leaving the mall.
Congel is anon who______
选项 A、does not care about politics.
B、is a little idealistic but a real and rich business man.
C、indulges himself in environmental protection.
D、has been harboring the plan since he was a young man.
答案B
解析 选项A不对，第一段指出他是布什的忠实拥护者，说明他关心政治。C不对，因为第一段描述他很有钱，同时也指出他并不是仅仅为了不污染环境的能源而开始这一项目。D不对，他是在“9?11”事件以后才开始这一项目的。第一段对于他生活的描述说明他极为富有，这说明他对于经商很有头脑，但是由于诺曼底一行，他又轻率地改变了项目计划，说明他多少有一点理想主义，因此B正确。
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