辽宁省辽河油田第二高级中学2020届高三英语4月月考试题

辽宁省辽河油田第二高级中学2020届高三英语4月月考试题

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A

Pizza is a pretty common treat, but where did it start? Here are three things you probably don’t know about pizza.

1: Pizza’s Origins Are Half-Baked.

The Neapolitans in Italy are proud of saying they invented pizza, but it’s probably more accurate to say they perfected it. The idea of putting toppings on a flatbread and baking it started in the 6th century B. C. But the people of Naples were the first to put the tomato on a flatbread in the 16th century. From its start, pizza was the food for the poor, as it was cheap, filling and easy to eat on the run. In Italian, the word “pizza” refers to anything that is made and then pressed flat.

2: Pizza Margherita Is Not Exactly a Symbol of Italy.

It is said that one day in 1889, a local baker named Raffaele Esposito created three pizzas for Queen Margherita when she was on a tour of Italy. The queen loved the version that had the tomato, basil and mozzarella cheese, and it just happened to match the colors of the Italian flag. So Esposito named the pizza after her.

But Scott Wiener points out that Italy was unified in name only in 1889 so it was unlikely any Neapolitan baker would want to celebrate the “Northern conqueror”. Further, the letter of gratitude for the pizza from the royal household that Pizzeria Brandi displays appears to be a fake and may just

have been a marketing strategy.

3: Hawaiian Pizza Invented by a Canadian.

Sam Panopoulos, from Greece, originally moved to Canada at the age of 20. In 1962, he decided to put some ham and pineapple on a pizza at one of his restaurants in Ontario.

“We just did it for fun to see how it was going to taste,” he told the BBC in 2020. Panopoulos named it the Hawaiian pizza after the brand of the canned pineapple he used. The mixture of sweet and savory toppings became popular with a certain part of the pizza-loving public. The inventor died in 2020.

21. Who was pizza first made for? A. People who were very busy.

B. People who were running away.

D. Soldiers.

C. The poor people who could afford it.

22. What is Pizzeria Brandi’s purpose of displaying the letter? A. To show honor for Queen Margherita. B. To hatch a marketing plot.

C. To prove the pizza’s relation with the royal family.

D. To tell the world Pizza Margherita is exactly a symbol of Italy. 23. The name of the Hawaiian pizza came from . A. another brand of food

B. a Canadian restaurant

D. its unique Hawaiian

C. the founders own interest flavor B

My daughter Kelly is a cautious person. She needs to warm up to situations, and is hesitant to try new things. When with close friends, she becomes a leader who laughs loudly and chants, “Girls rule, boys drool.” But when that comfort zone is not around her, she is shy and nervous.

This has been challenging for me at times. “Shy” is not a word that I think has ever been used to describe me. But this bas been a year of firsts for my girl that has filled her with a new sense of confidence. This year she moved to lap lane in swimming where she was preparing for a swim team. This year she learned to ride a bike without training wheels. And this year she completed her first kids’ triathlon (三项全能).

On Saturday, with a thunderstorm coming soon and my son’s birthday party later in the day, we all went out in the dark of the morning for Kelly to participate in her first triathlon. We practiced transitions from swim to bike to run with her, we got all the equipment she'd need, and we kept talking about the race. But as we waited the two hours for the older kids to finish before her turn, she held my leg a little harder and told me she loved me a few too many times. She was nervous but trying to keep it together.

And then it was her turn. From the second she jumped into the water, my heart soared. My daughter transformed into the most confident human being I had ever seen. She dominated that swim, crushed that bike ride and ran to the finish with the biggest smile on her face.

I can honestly say that I never felt so proud of someone in my entire life. It wasn’t because she did a sport or anything like that. It was because she was afraid of something and conquered that fear with confidence and a fire I hadn't seen before.

All day I would find myself just looking over at her and smiling. She might be wearing the finalist medal but I felt like I won that day. I won the chance to see my girl shine.

Shine on, sweet baby. 24. Kelly is nervous when . A. boys are around her

B. she changes into a leader

C. she is away from her mom D. situations are new to her

25. We can know from Paragraph 3 . A. the race began in the early morning Kelly support

C. Kelly was eager for her turn in the race brother’s birthday party

26. Seeing Kelly’s performance in the race, the author felt . A. excited and proud

B. anxious and uneasy

D. curious and concerned

D. Kelly prepared for her

B. the whole family gave

C. worried and hesitant

27. In the ending paragraphs the author “felt like I won that day” because Kelly .

A. overcame the fear C. won the gold medal C

When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and seeing other children suffer in other parts of the world. I would say to myself, “ When I grow up, when I can get rich, I will save kids all over the world.”

At 17, I started my career here in America, and by the age of 18, I started my first charity organization. I went on to team up with other organizations in the following years, and met, helped, and even lost some of the most beautiful souls, from six-year-old Jasmina Anema who passed away in 2020 from leukemia(白血病), and whose story inspired thousands to volunteer as donors, to my grandmother, who lost her battle with cancer in 2020, and her death is the very reason and the driving force behind the Clara Lionel Foundation(CLF). We’re all human. And we all just want a chance: a chance at life, a chance in education, a chance at a future, really. And at CLF, our mission is to impact as many lives as possible, but it starts with just

B. expressed love to her

D. took part in the sport

one.

People make it seem too hard to do charity work. The truth is, you don’t have to be rich to help others. You don’t need to be famous. You don’t even have to be college-educated. But it starts with your neighbor, the person right next to you, the person sitting next to you in class, the kid down the block in your neighborhood. You just do whatever you can to help in any way that you can. And today, I want to challenge each of you to make a commitment to help one person. One organization, one situation that touches your heart. My grandmother always used to say, “ If you’ve got a dollar, there’s plenty to share.”

28 What did the author want to do at a young age? A Watch TV children

29 What directly caused the author to create and develop the CLF? A A six-year-old kid’s request. of cancer.

C Many volunteers’ inspiration encouragement.

30 What does the underlined word “ one” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A A chance organization

31 What does the author suggest people do in the last paragraph? A Do little things to help those around them college education

C Challenge their friends to offer help you are D

D Do charity work whoever B Work hard to get a

B A task

C A life

D

An

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organizations’

B Her grandmother’s death

B Grow up quickly

C Become wealthy

D Help other