学易金卷：2019-2020学年高二英语下学期期末测试卷01（人教版）

2019-2020学年高二英语下学期期末测试卷01 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节（共15个小题；每小题2分，满分30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。 A What separates me from everyone else?The difference is not what clothes I wear or the music I listen to, but what I feel inside. Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling. I woke up every Saturday to watch my favorite Superstars. As I grew older, I got a lot of flak for watching this“fake”sport. My peers would laugh at me for following what was called a“man’s soap opera”. So, I put my love for wrestling on the shelf. Like everyone else, I wanted to be associated with the cool clique. I yearned to be invited to the parties of the in-crowd and hang out with the popular kids. I became pretty successful. Although my Friday evenings were busy with parties, I would still wake up early on Saturdays to watch wrestling. It wasn’t until freshman year that I realized I wasn’t being myself. That year, I tried many new things and activities and made new friends. In my town, football was the sport, so I decided to play football, thinking it might give me a head start in popularity. The team started with 48 athletes. At the end, there were 14 of us left. I stuck it out not because I liked it, but because I was not a quitter. That long season taught me a lesson: I wasn’t a football player. More importantly, it taught me to be myself. After that season, I went back to being a wrestling fan. I watched it religiously, no matter what insults were thrown my way. I came across a quote: “Don’t Dream It, Be It. ”When I read this, my friend Dan had the same idea I had. “What if we build a wrestling ring?”we asked. We acquired the necessary wood and equipment for its construction. The following weekend, we met at his house. We saw our dream in a pile in his backyard. We worked from dawn to dusk to build our great establishment. By Sunday night, our mission was complete. Our hard work(combined with a little creativity)had paid off. We had a real