辽宁省大连渤海高级中学2018届高三1月高考模拟英语试题2

2018英语高考模拟题 考试时间100分钟，满分120分。 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第1节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） A The first newspapers were written by hand and put up on walls in public places. The earliest daily newspaper was started in Rome in 59 B.C. In the 700’s the world’s first printed newspaper was published. Europe did not have regularly published newspaper until 1690, when one was started in Germany. The first regularly published newspaper in English language was printed in London and was published once a week. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant. It came out in March 1702. In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper. In 1704, John Campell started the Boston Newsletter, the first newspaper published daily in the British colonies. By 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1800 daily papers in the Un