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PAGE PAGE 12辽宁省庄河市2018届高三英语上学期开学考试试题第Ⅰ卷第一部分 听力部分（略）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。AJOHANNESBURG—They say cats have nine lives.Now a Chinese toad（蟾蜍）has joined that club of clever survivors.South Africans are shocked at the endurance of a toad that got trapped in a cargo shipment from China to Cape. Town,after jumping into a porcelain（瓷器）candlestick（烛台）that was made there.South African officials reportedly planned to put down the creature,fearing it would cause harm as an invasive species if it were let go in the wild.But the toad got a last-minut