专题06 阅读理解之记叙文10篇（名校最新期末真题）-2022-2023学年高二英语下学期期末复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津译林版2020）

译林版（2020）高二英语下学期期末复习 查缺补漏冲刺满分 (名校最新期末真题) 专题06 阅读理解之记叙文10篇 （2022春·江苏徐州·高二统考期末）Yvonne and I had a consulting business. Yvonne used to be CEO of a London insurance company and I was on the board of a branding agency, so we had decided to join forces and build something together. The company, Dutch Engels, did very well quickly and we were running around like headless chickens. There was lots of travel — Singapore, the EU, and we’d won a project where the client wanted us to spend six months in the US. We’d be standing on the platform getting a tube at seven in the morning, thinking, “Why are we juggling all this? There must be a better way to live.” In April 2018, we were in Edinburgh for work, rushing off our feet, when someone at the meeting said that we looked like we needed a break. She suggested we go to one of the islands for a couple of days. It wasn’t a bad idea. Yvonne looked on Google Earth and spotted this tiny island, less than eight miles long and two miles wide. It looked like it was in the tropics — turquoise blue water and golden sand beaches. We headed there. The ferry journey from Oban was splendid — you’ve got the mountains, the ocean, the yachts. It was a world we didn’t even know existed. Everything conspired (共同促成) to make us fall in love with the place. Both of us were feeling this gut instinct (直觉) which said, “This feels like home. Make this our home.” The great thing about having your own business is that you can make those decisions. That same day, instead of looking for a place to spend a holiday, we started looking for a place to live. The back windows looked on to the sea and the hills with nothing blocking the view. We went back to London and sold our apartment. By October, we’d moved here permanently. We ended up raising sheep there and they’re not cheap. We went ahead and launched a woolly hat business — WELAN. We sell online and in the shop on Tiree harbour. Yvonne does the spinning and the knitting. I wash the wool, separate the fi