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1、河北省承德市双滦区实验中学2021届高三英语一轮复习晚练试题10第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25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 Coffee has a history dating back to at least the 9th century and has been a catalyst for social interaction across cultures and eras. Originally discovered in Ethiopia, coffee beans were
2、brought into the Middle East by Arab traders, spreading to Egypt, Yemen, Persia, Turkey, and North Africa by the 15th century. Muslim merchants eventually brought the beans to the thriving port city of Venice, where they sold them to wealthy Italian buyers. Soon, the Dutch began importing and growin
3、g coffee in places like Java and Ceylon (largely through slave labor), and the British East India Trading Company was popularizing the beverage in England. Coffee spread across Europe and even reached America. Where there has been coffee, there has been the coffeehouse. From the 15th century Middle
4、Eastern establishments where men gathered to listen to music, play chess, and hear recitations from works of literature, to Paris Cafe le Procope where luminaries of the French Enlightenment such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot came to enjoy a hot cup of joe, coffeehouses have traditionally serve
5、d as centers of social interaction, places where people can come to relax, chat, and exchange ideas. The modern coffee shop is modeled on the espresso and pastrycentered Italian coffeehouses that arose with the establishment of ItalianAmerican immigrant communities in major US cities such as New Yor
6、k Citys Little Italy and Greenwich Village, Bostons North End, and San Franciscos North Beach. New York coffee shops were often frequented by the Beats in the 1950s. It wasnt long before Seattle and other parts of the Pacific Northwest were developing coffee shops as part of a thriving countercultur
7、e scene. The Seattlebased Starbucks took this model and brought it into mainstream culture. Although coffeehouses today continue to serve their traditional purpose as lively social hubs in many communities, they have noticeably adapted to the times. Rediscovering their purpose as centers of informat
8、ion exchange and communication, many coffee shops now provide their customers with internet access and newspapers. It has become extremely common to see someone sitting at a Starbucks listening to music or surfing the web on his or her laptop. Coffee stores today also maintain a fairly identifiable,
9、 yet unique aesthetic: wooden furniture and plush couches, paintings and murals drawn on walls, and softlighting combine to give coffee shops the cozy feeling of a home away from home. Today, big business retail coffee shops are expanding quickly all over the world. Starbucks alone has stores in ove
10、r 40 countries and plans to add more. Despite its popularity, Starbucks has been criticized and labeled by many as a bloodsucking corporate machine, driving smaller coffee shops out of business through unfair practices. This has even spawned an anticorporate coffee counterculture, with those subscri
11、bing to this culture boycotting big business coffee chains. Increasingly popular coffee stores such as The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf are also giving Starbucks some stiff competition. In any case, it seems pretty clear that coffee has weaved itself into the fabric of our consumeroriented culture.21We
12、can infer from the passage _.AStarbucks has beaten all the competitors Bthere are no changes in the development of coffee cultureCthe taste of coffee has changed a lotDStarbucks has some effect on the development of coffee culture22The famous coffeehouse “Starbucks” originally came from_.ASeattle BE
13、thiopiaCJava DFrance23Nowadays, if you come to a coffeehouse, you can _.Aplay chess with other customers Benjoy delicious dishes from South AmericaCsurf the internet Dwatch a TV playDAC B Late that afternoon I took the train back to Sydney. There I found another surprise waiting for me. My room had
14、been given to somebody else and they had no room for me. Harkin had known my travel plans and had arranged everything; how could he have booked the room only for three days? There was nothing to be done but to find another hotel. The waiters were happy to find me a new hotel, and when I said that I
15、was happy to stay at the Airport, thinking it might be cheaper than staying in the city, they suggested the Holiday Inn at the airport. There was one small matter: the room rate was $300 per night. The best hotel in Katoomba had wanted only$145. I asked if there were anything cheaper they might sugg
16、est but they warned that most hotels would already be full by this time. The hotel was far from the train station, so Id best take a taxi, at $25. On the way to the Holiday Inn, we passed a hotel just two blocks from the Holiday Inn that advertised a room rate of $104. At the desk I asked if their room rate could g
