辽宁省部分市2024届高三上学期期末英语试题汇编：阅读理解

辽宁省部分市2024届高三上学期期末英语试题分类汇编 阅读理解 辽宁省丹东市2023-2024学年高三上学期期末英语试题 第一节（共15小题: 每小题2.5分, 满分37.5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 Maybe you only think about bread in terms of what holds your sandwich together. But bread has played such an important role in our lives for thousands of years that words and phrases relating to it have crept into our everyday vocabularies. Breadwinner Have you ever heard your mom or dad referred to as the breadwinner of the household? No, they aren't running a race to win a loaf of bread for dinner or entering some weird lottery at the bakery. Since "bread" is a term for the basic food and drink that everyone needs, "breadwinner" refers to the person who is the main provider for a family, the one who earns the money to bring home the "bread" that their family needs. Today, usually both mom and dad are breadwinners. Breadbasket It may sound like something they bring the breadsticks in at a restaurant, but a breadbasket actually has other meanings besides bread holder. A region of a country that grows a lot of grain, like the Midwest region of the United States, is often called that country's breadbasket, since it provides the raw materials for much of its bread. Oddly enough, breadbasket is also a slang term for a person's stomach—where they "keep" their bread after eating it! Best thing since sliced bread This probably sounds weird, since most of us buy our bread at the grocery store, perfectly pre-sliced. But once people could only buy unsliced bread, they had to carefully cut each piece with a knife. In 1928, Otto Rohwedder invented a bread-slicing machine. Today the term is usually used in referring to a brilliant idea or the perfect device like those mysterious kitchen wares. Bread and Butter When the man at the auto repair shop says that flat tires are his "bread and butter", he's not on some strange new diet. This phrase refers to a task or job that's a basic means of making a living—in this case, fixing flat tires—which provides