广东省中山市第一中学2017-2018学年高二下学期第一次统测（4月段考）英语试题

中山市第一中学2017~2018学年第二学期高二年级第一次统测 英语 满分150分，时间120分钟 命题人: 审题人： 一、阅读理解-阅读选择（ 共40分）【题号1-20】 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 My dad loved pennies, especially those with the elegant stalk of wheat curving around each side of the ONE CENT on the back. Those were the pennies he grew up with during the Depression (大萧条). As a kid, I would go for walks with Dad, spying coins along the way—a penny here, a dime (一角硬币) there. Whenever I picked up a penny, he'd ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one of those special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth. One gray Sunday morning in winter, not long after my father's death in 2002, I was walking down Fifth Avenue, feeling bereft. I found myself in front of the church where Dad once worked. I was warmly shown in and led to a se