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1、安徽省涡阳县第一中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期寒假作业试题一一、 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AWhen I was a kid, I loved reading history, science fiction, detective stories, but especially comics. I had piles of them and kept talking my Dad into making more shelves for me. One day, I read about a 13-year-ol
2、d boy who had actually written one of my favorite comics, Legion of Super-Heroes, and I said, “I can do that too.” That year, I was two years younger than the writer.Three years later, a friend and I started our own fan magazine about comics. It became the first place that regularly told people when
3、 their favorite comics were coming out and writers and artists were working on them. Because of the magazine, I won the awards for The Comic Reader, but more important, it got many of the people in the field to know who I was.One day when I was visiting DC Comics for news for my next issue, one of t
4、he editors a chance to write text for his comic. Suddenly, at 16, I was getting paid to write.I was able to pay for my college classes working as an assistant editor at DC Comics and learned how to write comics stories while I was there. I wrote hundreds of stories. Over the years, I worked as an ed
5、itor and an executive (主管) for the company, eventually serving as a president and publisher, until earlier this year. Now Im back to my first love, writing comics again.Every morning, I open my e-mail and find pages of art sent in by artists across the country who draw my stories. When Im tired of w
6、orking on the stories, I can go online and find my readers commenting on my stories or telling me when I make mistakes.Keep reading and writing, its a wonderful way to live.1. At what age did the author win the awards for The Comic Reader?A. 13B. 14.C. 15.D. 16.2. What is the authors present job?A.
7、An editor.B. A comics writer.C. A painter.D. A publisher.3. How is the passage mainly developed?A. By listing some data.B. By giving examples.C. By following time order.D. By making comparisons.BThe Chicago Fine Chocolate Show took place in November. Pastry chefs (面包师) from around the country handed
8、 out samples of their very best work. Chef Scott Green, a chocolate sculptor, impressed the attendees at the show. Not only did he bring his work for all to see，but he also made chocolate sculptures right then and there.Green talked to TFK about his job as a chocolate sculptor. He explained that he
9、thinks of himself as an artist who just happens to work with chocolate rather than wood or stone. “I hive been around chocolate so long that it isnt chocolate anymore,” he said. To learn more about the job of a chocolate sculptor, read on.TFK: What was the hardest thing that you have ever carved, an
10、d what was it made of?GREEN: In 2017, I did the U.S. Pastry Championship, and I had to carve ft castle out of white chocolate for the competition. I didnt have a lot of experience, and white chocolate is hard to carve. That was the hardest thing I have ever carved.TFK: How long does it take to make
11、an average sculpture?GREEN: For me, it takes a couple of days. Most of that time is getting all the pieces ready. The easiest part is gluing it all together. Chocolate is used for glue. It holds together very well.TFK: How much chocolate do you use per sculpture?GREEN: It depends on the sculpture. F
12、or a show piece, I maybe use 20 to 60 pounds of chocolate. You have to be really strong to lift it. I always ask for help.TFK: Is it easier to work with sugar or chocolate?GREEN: They are very different. Generally speaking, it is easier to work with chocolate. Chocolate likes being poured into molds
13、 (模具), and it sets at room temperature. Sugar is much more fragile. It is very hot when you work with it and not as easy.4. According to the passage, Chef Scott Green _.A. was good at making chocolateB. made sculptures with stone or woodC. didnt bring his work at the showD. made sculptures at the sh
14、ow5. What does the underlined sentence mean?A. Chocolate is very delicious.B. Green has become tired of chocolate.C. Green didnt work with chocolate anymore.D. Chocolate is just a material he works with.6. What can we infer from the text?A. Gluing chocolate is difficult.B. Green cant raise his sculp
15、tures by himself in most cases.C. It is more difficult to work with Chocolate than with sugar.D. Green did well at the 2017 U.S. Pastry Championship.7. Which part of a newspaper is the text probably taken from?A. Art.B. Education.C. Cooking.D. Tourism.CIts common knowledge that there are many benefi
16、ts to being fit, but one large new study found that skipping out on the gym is practically the worst thing you can do for your health. In fact, the study claims not exercising might be more harmful to your health than smoking.New findings, published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open, detail how researchers at the Cleveland Clinic studied 122,007 patients from 1991 to 2014, putting t
