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可学科网 组卷网 喀什二中2023-2024学年第一学期高二年级开学考试 英语试卷 第二部分阅读（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Going on a road trip?The Statue of Liberty.Golden Gate Bridge and the Hearst Castle are common great tourist sites.But if you prefer offbeat places.check out the following roadside attractions. World's Largest Ball of Paint Alexandria,Ind In 1977,Michael Carmichael set out to create the biggest ball of paint anywhere.Starting with a baseball as the centre,he painted coat after coat of paint day after day,year after year.The ball weighs more than 1,300 pounds,with more than 20.000 coats of paint,which is recognised by Guinness World Records.Visitors can paint the ball themselves and become part of history. The Museum of Dirt Boston.Mass. The museum is the idea of Glenn Johnson.In the glass bottles are such treasures as dirt from the Great Wall of China.as well as sand from a desert in Saudi Arabia and Omaha Beach in France.Best of all,the cost of seeing this museum is dirt cheap:It's free. Mount Horeb Mustard Museum Mount Horeb,Wis It's heaven for hot dog lovers!This museum says that it has to have the world's largest collection of prepared mustard ()It's more than 4.100 bottles of spices (come from 60 nations,including Turkey and China.Visitors learn the history of mustard,from how it's made to how it's advertised and sold.The museum's creator,Barry Levenson,loves mustard so much that he even puts it on ice cream! Paper House Rock port,Mass, Elis Stenman was much ahead of his time in 1922,when he started to build a two-room house almost completely out of newspaper.At the time,people didn't give much-if any-thought to recycling paper.In fact,“recycling”wasn't even a word then.The house is framed(以.做框架)with wood,but the walls 第1页/共8页 可学科网 6组卷网 are made of newspaper only.In all,he used about 100.000 newspapers. 1.What can the underlined word"offbeat"in the first paragraph best be replaced by? A perfect. B.quiet. C.public D.unusual. 2.Which of the follo