04.阅读理解记叙文及新闻报道-【期末备考】上海名校2023年高一下英语试卷精选汇编

【期末备考】上海名校2023年高一下英语试卷精选汇编 - 04.阅读理解记叙文及新闻报道（解析版） 编者按：遴选上海名校期末试题，精心编辑，排版整齐。 （2022秋·上海·高一华师大二附中校考期末） （2022秋·上海·高一上海市南洋模范中学校考期末） （2022秋·上海·高一上海市进才中学校考期末） （2022秋·上海·高一曹杨二中校考期末） （2022·上海奉贤·高一校考期末） （2022·上海嘉定·高一上海市嘉定区第一中学校考期末） （2022·上海静安·高一上海市市西中学统考期末） （2022秋·上海·高一复旦附中校考期末） （2022·上海·高一延安中学校考期末） （2022秋·上海·高一上海市七宝中学校考期末） （2022·上海静安·高一上海市控江中学期末） （2022秋·上海·高一上海中学校考期末） （2022秋·上海·高一华师大二附中校考期末） An excerpt from Shoes Were for Sunday by Molly Weir One of the phrases which greatly puzzled me was “entertaining angels unaware”. How could anybody be unaware of entertaining an angel, I thought? It never occurred to me that angelic qualities could hide under very ordinary voices and in everyday bodies. My angel, as it turned out, hid inside the little figure of my school-teacher, Miss McKenzie. To me she was always a little old lady, with her grey hair framing a round rosy face and caught up in an old-fashioned bun (发髻) on top of her head. Although I enjoyed Miss McKenzie’s approval, I never really felt very close to her. It never dawned on me to ask her advice as to what I should do when I left school. Surely there was only one thing to do:get a job and earn money as quickly as possible. But Miss McKenzie had other ideas. We in our house knew nothing of scholarships for fatherless children. The idea of a child from a working-class household going to college was the very stuff of story-books. Unknown to us, she forced the headmaster to put my name forward for a special scholarship open to children who showed some promise, and who would benefit from further education. He agreed, although he was a bit worried about the expense of keeping me at college for a whole year. No earnings from me, and fares and clothes to be covered, for, of course, only the fees would be paid if I won. Miss McKenzie brushed all argument aside. To this day I can remember my complete astonishment when, on being asked if she felt I had any particular qualities, this elderly teacher banged the desk with her fist,