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潮南区2017年高考考前英语科冲刺题 第I卷 第一部分 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A John Adams (1735-1826) The Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated Adams began his career as a lawyer. Then he became a critic of Great Britain’s authority in America and was a leader of the American Revolution later. From 1789 to 1797, Adams was America’s first vice president. He was elected in the Presidential election of 1796 and served a single four-year term as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain. His leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero, and he would become America’s most influential political figure during the 1820s and 1830s. Andrew Jackson became the nation’s seventh president (1829-1837). John Quincy Adams (1767—1848) John Quincy Adams began his career as the U.S. minister to the Netherlands in 1794. After that, the younger Adams rejoined diplomatic service under President James Madison. As secretary of state under James Monroe, Adams played a key role in determining the president’s foreign policy. He went on to win the presidency in an election in 1824, and served only one term. Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his shocking death in 1865. He was born in a cottage and grew up on the American frontier, educated himself by reading borrowed books, and worked splitting fence rails and clerking in a general store, and then as a country lawyer, long before he became president. 21. Where did John Adams finish his university education? A. Harvard. B. Oxford. C. Cambridge University. D. University of St Andrews. 22. What made Andrew Jackson a military hero? A. His leadership in the war. B. His wealth f