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高二英语第一学期期末试卷 第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A Phyllis Pearsall was born in Britain in 1907. She stayed there until she left school. Then, she travelled around France. She earned money by painting peoples pictures and writing for a newspaper in Paris. She married an artist and went with him to paint in Spain. In the 1930s, she left Spain and returned to London. She worked for her fathers company and made maps of the world. She thought there was a need for new street maps of London and started working on a book of maps. She collected a lot of inf