2019年高考全国卷英语模拟试题 (2).doc

2019年高考全国卷英语模拟试题 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） A Seattle’s Pike Place Market stretches for four city blocks. It includes a collection of old buildings, bunches of stalls and street musicians and afters that draw both locals and visitors. The themed market wakes up each day at 5:00 a.m. Among the first to arrive are flower?vendors?and fish mongers (小贩) like Jason Scott. My stand is known for its tradition of throwing fish before wrapping it up for a customer. I came back out of high school and I’ve been here ever since. I’m 46 now. Many Pike Place Market stores are family-run and have been around for generations. Russian-speaking immigrants opened Piroshky bakery 25 years ago. Not a lot of people understand what Piroshky is. People think sometimes it’s a last name, so we do have to educate people a lot. If you go to Russia and you go to a market like this, you could hear the latest scream out - Piroshky, Piroshky and that’s why we call it Piroshky. Next to Piroshky is a Chinese bakery called Mee Sum?pastry. It’s owned by the third generation of the Fong family. They call their signature pastry, the best and biggest combos (套餐) in towns. Like Chinese hamburger, you can put chicken or puppy kibble or crispy even vegetable in it. But in this?sprawling (无序扩展的) market, one of the most unusual places isn’t a food or craft stall. It’s the gum wall where people can stick their tiny chewed up?clump?on a roll. Apparently, they don’t give it much thought, trying to be original. This gum wall started about 20 years ago when the theater asked people not to bring gum inside because they didn’t want it under the seats, so people would put gum up on the outside. Market officials?initially tried to clear the sticky stuff off the wall, but new gum always reappeared so they finally gave up. The gum wall quickly became a tourist attraction. And just like that, the gum wall turned into an attraction, highlighting a more unusual side of Seattle that locals and visitors