山西省大同市浑源县第七中学2022-2023学年高二下学期第三次月考英语试题

本卷由系统自动生成，请仔细校对后使用，答案仅供参考 2022-2023学年第二学期高二年级第三次月考 英语试题 试题满分：150分　　考试时间：120分钟 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分45分） 一、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Life on the street is a constant struggle for homeless people.In times of extreme weather conditions，that struggle becomes even more difficult.Recently，homeless people across Chicago faced freezing to death if they couldn’t find shelter for the night. Thankfully，one local woman refused to let that happen.On January 30,2018,34-year-old Candice Payne，a local managing broker，was lucky enough to have shelter from the dangerous conditions. “It was -20℃，and I knew they were going to be sleeping on ice and I had to do something，” said Payne.Payne started brainstorming different ways she could possibly help.Finally, she decided to see if there were any rooms available at local inns and hotels that she could get to help those stuck on the street. For Payne，her mission was personal.According to Payne，her husband，Carlos Callahan, had lived on the streets at one point in his life.Based on his experiences，Payne knew that the homeless people still out on the street desperately needed help and that if she didn’t step up to help，no one likely would. However，when Payne explained what she was trying to do，many of the local hotels refused to allow her to pay for the rooms as they didn’t want homeless people to stay in their rooms.“No one wanted them，but one hotel，the Amber Inn，was nice enough to allow me to buy the rooms，” said Payne. Payne’s selfless act made news across the country.However，she insisted she had never done it for attention.“I am a regular person，” said Payne，who spent thousands of dollars of her own money to help complete strangers.“It all sounded like a rich person did this，but I’m just a little black girl from the South Side.” 1. What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. Locals living on the street. B. The homeless freezing to death. C. The extreme weather. 　　D. The shelter for the