江苏省扬州市2022-2023学年第一学期期中考试高二英语模拟试题(Word版含精品.pdfVIP

江苏省扬州市2022-2023 学年高二第一学期期中考试 英语试题 （满分120） 一. 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40 分） 第一节（本题共15 小题; 每小题2 分, 满分30 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A. B. C. D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 (A) During this past year, I’ve had three instances of car trouble. Each time these things happened, I was disgusted with the way most people hadn’t bothered to help. One of those times, I was on the side of the road for close to three hours with my friend’s big Jeep. I put signs in the windows, which said NEED A JACK ( 千斤顶), and offered money. Nothing. Right as I was about to give up and start asking for a free ride from passing cars, a Mexican family in a van pulled over, and the father jumped out. He sized up the situation and called for his daughter, who spoke English. He conveyed through her that he had a jack but that it was too small for the Jeep, so we would need to support it. Then he got a saw from the van and cut a section out of a big log( 圆木)on the side of the road. We rolled it over and put his jack on top, and we were in business. I started taking the wheel off, and then, if you can believe it, I broke his tire iron. No worries. He handed it to his wife, and she was gone in a flash down the road to buy a new tire iron. She was back in 15 minutes. We finished the job, and I was a very happy man. The two of us were dirty and sweaty. His wife produced a large water jug for us to wash our hands with. I tried to put a $20 bill in the mans hand, but he shook his head no. With what looked like great concentration, he said in English, “Today you tomorrow me.” This family, working on a seasonal basis where time is money, took a couple of hours to help a stranger while others passed by quietly. Since then Ive helped many peop