专题07 阅读理解（记叙文）-备战2024年高考英语近两年名校联考模拟试题精选（江苏专用）

专题07 阅读理解（记叙文） （原卷版） 目录 1. 江苏省徐州市第七中学2023年高三期中试题 2. 2023届江苏省南京市2地一模试题 3. 江苏省灌南高级中学2023-2024学年高三试卷 4. 江苏省东台中学2023-2024学年高三试题 5. 江苏省常州市八校2023年高三联合调研 6. 江苏省镇江市丹阳市2023-2024学年高三试题 7. 江苏省南通市2023-2024学年高三统考试题 8. 江苏省南通市崇川区2023年高三期中试题 9. 江苏省无锡市2023-2024学年高三期中质量调研测试 10. 江苏省苏州中学校2023-2024学年高三试题 1. 【江苏省徐州市第七中学2023年高三期中试题】 One day, Hilary Krieger was sitting in her parents’ home when her friend accidentally squirted (喷射) himself with an orange slice. “Oh, the orange just orbisculated,” she said. “It did what?” asked her friend, “I’ve never heard such a word.” The two made a five-dollar bet, and Hilary gleefully grabbed the family dictionary. She quickly turned to the “O” section and didn’t find it. Then she burst into her dad’s study and told him the shocking news: “Orbisculate” was not in the dictionary! Looking embarrassed, her father confessed that he had made up the word when in college. He defined “orbisculate” as the action that happens “when you dig your spoon into a grapefruit and it squirts juice directly into your eye,” though the family also applied it to other fruits and vegetables that unexpectedly sprayed. “We had been using it our whole lives, as if it were a real word,” Hilary says. Out five dollars and wondering what other fake words might exist in her vocabulary. Hilary was mad. But she quickly came to see her dad’s made-up word as a gift, one that, revealed his naughty and inventive spirit. “It speaks to his creativity and the idea that, even when something’s painful and annoying, like getting grape fruit juice in your eye, you can laugh and have fun with it, ” she says. Two decades later, Hilary told that funny story again and again, in sad circumstances. Her father, Neil Krieger, died at age 78. “‘Orbisculate’ is such a great word that I dream it should be in the dictionary!” says Hilary. To get the word officially recognized, Hilary set up a website, orbisculate.com, encouraging people to use “orbisculate” in a wide variety of contexts. Ge