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浙江省杭州市2019年高考押题预测卷(五)
英语试题
注:本卷无考核听力。
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A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
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William Pretzer was 5 years old when Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested. It was December 1, 1955. The 42-year-old needlewoman was on a city bus on the way home after a day’s work, and she refused to give her seat to a white passenger.
The full significance of the event did not register with Pretzer, so young and living more than 2,000 miles away in Sacramento, California. To be honest, it would take time for most people to gain enough views to see the protest (抗议)for what it was, the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States, and Parks as the movement’s so-called “mother.”
Even now, as he looks over Parks’ police report and fingerprints, Pretzer, who worked for Detroit’s Henry Ford Museum for more than 20 years, and acquire the retired GM bus in which the incident occurred, is struck by the documents. “There is nothing t