湖北省黄冈中?/p>
2015
年春季高一年级期末考试英语试题
考试时间?/p>
150
分钟
满分?/p>
120
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第一部分
听力(共两节,满?/p>
30
分)
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第二部分
阅读理解(共两节,满?/p>
40
分)
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第一节(?/p>
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?/p>
A
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B
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C
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D
)中,选出最佳选项?/p>
A
Have you ever wondered how a popular food or dessert was first
created
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Read on and find out about several of them.
Chewing gum
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Although ancient Greeks
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Mayans
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and early American
settlers chewed sap
(树液)
from trees, the first commercial chewing gum
was
made
and
sold
by
John
B.
Curtis
in
1848.
In
1850,
Curtis
began
selling
flavored gums.
Pizza
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In
Italy
in
the
early
1700s,
flat
breads,
called
pizzas,
were
made without toppings.These tasty
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filling breads were sold to the poor
in Naples.When Maria Carolina, the queen of Naples, tasted one, she
persuaded her husband, King Ferdinand IV, to allow this peasant dish to
be made in the royal kitchen.Almost 200 years later
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during her travels
around
the
country,
Italy
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s
queen
Margherita
saw
Italian
peasants
eating
pizza
breads.She
had
a
taste
and
fell
in
love
with
pizza.
She
ordered
the
most famous pizza cook of the day, Raffaele Esposito, to create for her
a pizza made of tomato, basil, and cheese to look like the colors of the
Italian
flag.
This
remains
the
basis
of
the
American
version
of
the
pizza.
The ice-cream-cone
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In 1904, Italo Marchiony got a patent(
专利
) to
produce ice-cream cones. The same year at the ST. Louis World
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s Fair,
a
Syrian
waffle(
华夫?/p>
)
seller
Ernest
Hamwi
heard
that
a
nearby
ice-cream
seller
had
run
out
of
dishes
to
serve
his
cream.
Hamwi
rolled
some
of
his