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2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试(一模)英语试题分类汇编
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2024届上海市虹口区高三上学期一模英语试卷
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
I was always a reader
As a kid, I walked to the library several times a week and checked out so many books and returned them so quickly that the librarian once snapped, "Don' t take home so many books if you' re not going to read them all!”
“But I did read them all, ”I said.
But I had stopped reading gradually. I joined book clubs that I never attended. I requested a library book. Everyone was reading, only to return it a week late, unread, with fines.
Then I met David. When I asked him about his last book, his face lit up and his fingers danced.
David read much more than I did, about a book or two a week. He preferred history and nonfiction, while I loved fiction writers.
On our seventh date, David and I visited the library.
"I have a game, "he said, pulling two pens and Post-its out of his bag. "Let' s find books we've read and leave reviews in them for the next person. "
"We wandered in the library for an hour. In the end, we sat on the floor among the poetry, and I
read him some. He listened, then asked, “What is it you like about that one?”
That summer, as we picnicked outside, I said, "If I tell you something, will you not judge me?"David paused and raised his eyebrows.
"I've only read one book this year, ”I said.
“But it's June, ”he said.
“I know. "
“Well, read a book!”
The next time I visited a bookstore, his charge to "read a book” echoed in my head. I picked up a book solely for its poetic title.
Thad a hard time getting into it. The narrator was an old man. Whenever I was tempted to give up on it, I thought of David. I pushed through the first two chapters and discovered a new narra