福建省2019-2020学年高一上学期期末英语试卷精选汇编：阅读理解专题（答案不全)

阅读理解专题 福建省福州市2019-2020学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题 第一节 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的4个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A The Origins of Famous Brands Our lives are full of brand names and trademarked products that we use every day. Although many brand names are simple acronyms(首字母缩略词) or versions of their founders' names, some of the companies we trust every day actually have fascinating and surprising back stories. Starbucks It seems fitting that the most famous coffee brand in the world would take its name from one of the world's greatest works of literature. The inspiration for the name of the coffeehouse came from Herman Melville's Moby Dick. The founders' original idea was to name the company after the Captain Ahab's ship--Pequot, but they eventually decided that Pequot wasn't a great name for coffee, so they chose Ahab's first mate, Starbucks, as the name instead. Nike Originally founded as a distributor for Japanese running shoes, the company was originally named BRS, or Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1