高二下学期期中考试英语
试题
答题时间：100分钟 满分：120分 命题人：高二英语组 校对人：高二英语组
第i卷
第一部分 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）
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i grew up in a small town. my father raised chickens and ran a construction company. i was barely 10 years old when my dad gave me the responsibility (责任) of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the stable. he believed it was important for me to have those jobs to learn responsibility. then, when i was 22, i found a job in natchbill at a country music club called the natchbill palace, i washed dishes and cooked from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm and then went on stage and sang until 2:00 in the morning. it wasn’t long before i became known as a singing cook. i had been rejected so many times by record companies that it was hard not to be discouraged. one night, a woman executive (董事) from a company named warner brothers records came to hear me sing. when the show was over, we sat down and talked and after she left, i said to myself it was one more rejection. a few weeks later, my manager received a phone call—warne
