[]辽宁省辽阳县集美学校2018-2019学年高二第一次月考（假期验收）英语试题

高二上第一次月考英语试题 第I卷 第一部分 听力（略）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 It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house.Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my fathermoving around mysteriously on the front lawn. “What are you doing out there？”I called to him. He looked up, smiling, “I'm making you a surprise.” I thought it could be just about anything. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us. Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught up in the business of our new life, I eventually forgot about his surprise. Until one gloomy day the next March when I glanced out of the window, I saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番红花) throughout the front lawn—blue, yellow and my favorite pink, with little faces moving up and down in the cold wind. I remembered the things Dad secretly planted las