2019年4月辽宁省辽河油田第二高级中学2019届高三月考英语试题及答案

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辽宁省辽河油田第二高级中学2019届高三4月月考
英语试题
2019年4月第二部分阅读理解(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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
Pizza is a pretty common treat, but where did it start? Here are three things you probably don’t know abou t pizza.
1: Pizza’s Origins Are Half-Baked.
The Neapolitans in Italy are proud of saying they invented pizza, but it’s probably more accurate to say they perfected it. The idea of putting toppings on a flatbread and baking it started in the 6th century B. C. But the people of Naples were the first to put the tomato on a flatbread in the 16th century. From its start, pizza was the food for the poor, as it was cheap, filling and easy to eat on the run. In Italian, the word “pizza” refers to anything that i s made and then pressed flat.
2: Pizza Margherita Is Not Exactly a Symbol of Italy.
It is said that one day in 1889, a local baker named Raffaele Esposito created three pizzas for Queen Margherita when she was on a tour of Italy. The queen loved the version that had the tomato, basil and mozzarella cheese, and it just happened to match the colors of the Italian flag. So Esposito named the pizza after her.
But Scott Wiener points out that Italy was unified in name only in 1889 so it was unlikely any Neapo litan baker would want to celebrate the “Northern conqueror”. Further, the letter of gratitude for the pizza from the royal household that Pizzeria Brandi displays appears to be a fake and may just have been a marketing strategy.
3: Hawaiian Pizza Invented by a Canadian.
Sam Panopoulos, from Greece, originally moved to Canada at the age of 20. In 1962,
he decided to put some ham and pineapple on a pizza at one of his restaurants in Ontario.
“We just did it for fun to see how it was going to taste,” he to ld the BBC in 2017. Panopoulos named it the Hawaiian pizza after the brand of the canned pineapple he used. The mixture of sweet and savory toppings became popular with a certain part of the pizza-loving public. The inventor died in 2017.
21. Who was pizza first made for?
A. People who were very busy.
B. People who were running away.
C. The poor people who could afford it.
D. Soldiers.
22. What is Pizzeria Brandi’s purpose of displaying the letter?
A. To show honor for Queen Margherita.
B. To hatch a marketing plot.
C. To prove the pizza’s relation with the royal family.
D. To tell the world Pizza Margherita is exactly a symbol of Italy.
23. The name of the Hawaiian pizza came from .
A. another brand of food
B. a Canadian restaurant
C. the founders own interest
D. its unique Hawaiian flavor
B
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