英语
满分150分，时间120分钟
一、阅读理解-阅读选择（ 共40分）【题号1-20】
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 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
My dad loved pennies, especially those with the elegant stalk of wheat curving around each side of the ONE CENT on the back. Those were the pennies he grew up with during the Depression (大萧条).
As a kid, I would go for walks with Dad, spying coins along the way—a penny here, a dime (一角硬币) there. Whenever I picked up a penny, he'd ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one of those special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth.
