卷10 阅读理解+读后续写3-【小题素养卷】冲刺2023年高考英语小题限时集训

小题素养卷——培素养，稳实力 【小题素养卷】冲刺2023年江苏高考英语小题限时集训 卷10阅读理解+读后续写3（10） 难度：★★★★☆ 建议用时： 35分钟 正确率 ： /9 得分 ： 错题分析： I. 阅读理解（每小题2.5分，共20分） A 【江苏省决胜新高考2022-2023学年高三上学期12月大联考】 At Christmas last year, Cathy Wood’s family home in Manchester was disturbingly quiet. Her daughters, 19 and 21, were revising for exams. She says she and her husband “hardly saw anything of them…I was a bit fed up.” Bored and frustrated, she bought a 45kg bunch of secondhand clothes, without knowing what she was going to do with it. Wood, a former teacher of English, has always loved clothes. At university, Wood hung out with the fashion students and sewed her own new romantic outfits. Wood, now 62, enjoyed shopping for vintage (老款) clothing and had even discussed getting a shop with a friend, but the rents put them off. A week or so after the bunch arrived, she booked a stall (货摊) at West Didsbury Makers Market. Standing at her first market stall was a wholly new experience though. “It was very different from teaching. You need just the right amount of contact with people.” Wood sold four pieces at her first market, which paid for the stall and left a small surplus (盈余). Now, she sometimes returns home with 30 empty coat hangers. But it was the contact with customers and fellow traders that she found most rewarding. “It’s a lovely environment. You chat and get to know each other. I really enjoyed it.” she says. Sometimes, in quiet moments on the stall, she takes out her mending and thinks of her mother and grandmother. “My grandmother taught art and crafts, and both she and my mother spent a lot of time with the sewing machine, teaching me to sew,” “What these clothes do is transport me back to different times when things were easier for me. They give me a pleasurable feeling. Nostalgia (怀旧) can be a good thing in that way.” After she stopped teaching, she “started to feel like a non person”, she says. The market stall “has given me status in my own mind to be