内蒙古北方重工业集团有限公司第三中学2014-2015学年高二上学期期末考试 英语试卷
第一部分：阅读理解
第一节：
Towards the end of the eleventh grade, I was asked to write a restaurant review. When I went to a restaurant, I saw the waiter talking to the chefs (厨师) and thought they were judging me. I felt nervous but I couldn't leave because I had to write the review. Minutes later, the waiter stopped talking and took my order. He was happy to serve me. I started asking him questions about his restaurant and I guessed that he liked that because he gave me a free dish. After I left the restaurant, I thought, "That's wasn't bad at all." Not all people think of me as a failure.
Now, I am running for the school president in my senior year. I am not sure if I can win, but I tell myself that if I want to be successful, I have to stop despising (鄙视) myself. I want to prove that Latinos can be successful. I do belong to the United States. An American is a person who overcomes struggles to become successful and that is what I'm doing.
1. In Paragraph 2, what the kid said to the author made him doubt whether ______.
A. he should laugh at the kid
B. the kid was a real Mexican
C. he should sell food in the street
D. the color of one's skin really mattered
2. The author's experience of finishing his restaurant review helped him realize that
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A. he could succeed easily if he tried his best
B. the waiters in America were all very friendly
C. not everyone in American looked down on Mexicans
D. he was actually popular with people around him
3. What is the main idea of the text?
A. Where one was born matters a lot.
B. Being a Mexican is hard in America.
C. Other people's opinions are very important.
D. It is what he does that makes him an American.
