2015届甘肃省天水市秦安县第二中学高三下学期第二次模拟考试试题 英语.doc

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分10分，考试时间为10分钟。第部分 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分所给的四个选项(A、B、CD)中,选出最佳选项。Next year marks the 150th anniversary of when large numbers of Chinese started working on a huge project in the United States. They help to build America’s first transcontinental railroad between 1863 and 1869, connecting the East Coast with the West. People know little about the Chinese railroad workers and what happened to them after the project was finished. Stanford University in California wants to learn more about the lives of these men by reaching out to their families. Bill Yee’s ancestors came from southern China. He said, “My great-great-grandfather came to America during the慻old rush抎ays and he returned to China as a wealthy man. niAnd then my great-grandfather came to work on the railroad and died there.” But that did not stop his grandfather from coming to the US on false papers. He operated a laundry. Bill Yee’s father continued to run the business and has never returned to China. “Things were pretty bad in some parts of China in the 1860’s. They came to America at all costs in order that they no longer had to bear hunger,” Bill Yee said. Shelley Fisher Fishkin is helping to direct the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University. She said, “Many of the Chinese workers who came to work on the transcontinental and other railroads returned to China after their work was done and created families there. Some of them settled in America and created new families, but they had families who they left when they came here and they may have descendants in China.” There is a need to create a record of the object and spoken history from the families of the railroad workers. “The US could not have become the modern industrial nation without the railroads. And the railroads would not have come together without the work of these Chinese workers,” said Shelley Fisher Fishkin. 1. What do you know about Bill Yee? A. His family was rich in