2014中职英语复习模拟题库阅读理解集中练习（二）.docVIP

中职英语复习模拟题库：阅读理解 阅读理解(共25小题；每小题2分，满分50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 Unlike the majority of my friends，wasn’t introducedto the cheerful guy until my second grade．My family emigrated from Taiwan to a small town in central Georgia．I had jst learned English，and from what I could gather fr，om my classmates，there was this guy who would come down one’s chimney and put toys in one’s stocking on Christmas Eve! What great country，I thought．After looking up stocking in my Chinese—English dictionaryI knew what I had to do．On that night，after everyone went to bed，I took my longest，cleanest knee sock and attached it ta nail already over the fireplace．Obviouslythe previous owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa character．Unfortunately，my parents were． woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireptace．But was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told．I burst into tears，quickly took down the sock and pushed it in the back of a drawer．Santa was dead． How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years a，on Christmas Eve，an older man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front door．He handed me a fat red stocking and left．On top of the stocking was a card，readin：“For Becky-I may have missed you in the second grade，but you’ve always lived in my heart．Santa．” Tears rolled in my eyes as I recognized the graceful handwriting of Jill，a friend I had met just two months before．The der man was her father．Jill had seen the hurt little girl underneath the tired thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it． So now I believe that Santa is real．I don’t mean the creation of American holiday marketers．Those Santas annoy and sadden me．I believe in the Santa Claus that lives inside good and thoughtful people．This Santa des not return to the North Pole after a 24-hour delivery but lives each day，really listens to friends，and then plans acts of kindness． 31．When the author