2016高考英语二轮（阅读理解）金品训练（12）及答案_高考复习指南

2016高考英语二轮（阅读理解）金品训练（12）及答案

　　C．The author’s actual action won support from his mother.

　　D．The author was unable to tear himself away from his girl friend

　　44．By writing the passage, the author tries to show

　　A．we can do nothing without money

　　B．fathers are strict while mothers are kind

　　C．it’s hard for parents to bring up their children

　　D．we should try to rely on ourselves for everything

　　Pisco is a city on the Peruvian coast, the home of Peruvian grape liquor(酒) Pisco has not only given its name to Peru’s national drink, but it is also the centre of its production.

　　Pisco has its origins in the 16th-century Spanish conquests（征服） of Latin America and particularly Peru and Chile. There the settlers found fertile land suitable for growing grapes. These vineyards（葡萄园） were so successful that soon the settlers were exporting crops back to Europe.

　　At first, grapes not suitable for making wines were distilled（蒸馏，提取） into a drink, and it soon became popular with sailors who began taking bottles with them back to Europe. They named it after the town where it was bought, Pisco, which in turn had been used to name the round pot that was used to store the liquor.

　　In the 19th century Pisco became a popular drink with the miners who flooded to San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and in the 1940s it again became a fashionable drink in New York and Hollywood. Production gradually spread from Peru to Chile.