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1、甘谷一中20182019学年高三第二次检测考试英语试卷（总分：120分，考试时间：100分钟）第卷（选择题）第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；第一节15小题，第二节5小题，每小题2分，满分40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。A“Ive always loved food,” says Cassie Dawson in the kitchen of her flat inLondon. “But Ive become bored with eating out. Ive had too many disappointing meals and paid
2、too much money for them! At one point, fed up with my complaint, a friend suggested I open my own restaurant. Impossible, I thought. But then I heard about supper clubs.”Supper clubs are a mixture of a restaurant and a dinner party you go to a strangers house and he/she cooks dinner for you. Like a
3、restaurant, you pay for your food, but like a dinner party, you eat at the same table as other people.Theyare advertised through social-networking sites with a menu and little information about where the supper club is until just before the meal.“Its like running a secret restaurant for one night,”
4、says Cassie. “The next morning, I set the tables and chairs aside. I put the TV back and its my living room again.”Cassie opens her “restaurant” for people about once a month, and she really enjoys the evenings shes had so far. She uses fresh, local ingredients and a typical meal costs about the sam
5、e as a takeaway much less than a restaurant meal. So how does she make money out of it?“I dont,” says Cassie. “In fact, at first I was worried about losing money on my club. Im good at cooking but my maths is terrible! But I was surprised by how cheaply I could make a good meal. This isnt about mone
6、y. Its about a different eating experience.”And what about inviting complete strangers into her house? Was Cassie ever nervous about that?“Not at all,” she says. “Almost everyone at the supper club is just interested in having a good meal with other interesting people.”1. Why did Cassie decide to op
7、en her own restaurant finally?A. To earn a living. B. To cook cheap and good meals for others.C. To make friends with strangers. D. To satisfy her friends needs.2. What does the underlined word “They” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. Dinner parties. B. Fresh ingredients. C. Supper clubs. D. Invitations to
8、 dinner.3. We can know that Cassies restaurant _.A. is only open in the evening B. serves meals for freeC. only serves takeaways D. is only open to her friends4. How does Cassie feel about her restaurant now?A. Worried. B. Annoyed. C. Content. D. Sensitive.BWelcome to the British Museum, the grandes
9、t and the most spectacular of human history. The admission is free and we open every day from 10:00 to 15:30. You can explore 10 departments including:The Department of Africa, Oceania and the AmericasThe collection of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americasincludes around 350,000 objects
10、. The scope of the collection is contemporary, and historical.It includes most of Africa, the Pacific and Australia,as well as the Americas. All of the collections were got during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and date from this time.The Department of AsiaThe Department of Asia covers the m
11、aterial and visual cultures of Asia a vast geographical area of Japan, Korea, China, Central Asia, Afghanistan, South Asia and South-East Asia. The collection dates from about 4000 BC, to the present day. It representsthe cultures and ways oflife of local people and other minority groups.The Departm
12、ent of Greek and Roman EmpiresThe Department of Greek and Roman Empires features antiquities (古董). It has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects. These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200BC)
13、 to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD.5. The scope of the Department of Africa, Oceania and Americas doesnt include_.A. Africa B. the South America C. Australia D. Britain6. The earliest collection is from _.A. The Department of Africa, Oceania and the AmericasB. The
14、 Department of Greek and Roman EmpiresC. The Department of AsiaD. The Department of the Middle East7. The Department of Asia represents _.A. the geographic features of AsiaB. the life styles and cultural traditions of some peoplesC. the relationships between Asian countriesD. the cultural fights bet
15、ween some native groupsCA young woman sits alone in a caf sipping tea and reading a book. She pauses briefly to write in a nearby notepad before showing her words to a passing caf waiter: Where are the toilets please?This is a familiar scene in Tokyos so-called silent cafs, where customers are not allowed to speak, and only communicate by writing in notepads.The concept rises by a desire to be alone among young Japanese, a situation brought by economic uncertainty, a shift in traditional family support structures and the growin
