辽宁省六校协作体2019-2020学年高一上学期入学考试英语试题

2019----2020学年度上学期高一期初考试 英语试题 时间100分钟 满分120分 命题人：李琨 校对人：吴吉国 第二部分　阅读理解(共两节, 满分40分) 第一节(共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分) A[来源:学科网] I remember the first time I got on a horse. When I was a little boy aged two, my mom agreed to let me take a short ride and that was it! From then on, I drove my parents crazy begging for a horse. When I was four, I had mutism, in which children stop speaking in certain social situations. I went days, weeks, months without a sound at school. At most, I might quietly whisper to a friend. I suffered silently through school until I was ten when a psychologist (心理学家) had an idea. He asked me what I wanted more than anything else in the world. He explained I was going to be given a chance to work for that. And I was permitted to whisper the answer in my mother’s ear, “A horse.” I was to get a pony, but I had to live up to my end of the bargain (讲价). I had a list of weekly tasks I had to finish. I had to answer the phone five times per week, something I ha