上海市复兴高级中学2016学年第一学期10月月考
高三英语 试卷
2016.10
II. Grammar and Vocabulary 20%
Section A 10%
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, u one word that best fits each blank.
It’s estimated that 300 million people in China are studying, or have studied English. That’s
an impressive number and I can’t think of any other country in the world (1) one quarter of the population is so dedicated to (2) (learn) a cond language. But some people are questioning whether this “craze” for studying English is worthwhile.
Professor Zhang Shuhua of the Chine Academy of Social Sciences says that too much emphasis is placed on learning English and (3) it is a waste of education resources as well as a threat to the study of Chine. He says that having English as a compulsory cour in university “has distracted much of students’ attention (4) specialized subjects,” and that some students have been denied access to postgraduate education becau they failed English. Others have admitted that studying so much English has made them (5) (poor) Chine speakers.
Both of the criticisms are legitimate, but they beg the question of why so many Chine still want to learn English. English, they recognize, (6) (be) the lingua franca of the modern world. It is the language of business and has become the language of international relations and culture. When people from different countries get together, the
y frequently speak in English (7) try to translate their native languages. It ems that everyone everywhere can speak at least some English.
For China to be part of that international conversation, it is necessary that some level of English proficiency (8) be achieved. But what, you may ask, about (9) who will never speak a word of English once they leave school? Well, for good or ill, they will still be surrounded by English. It is there in signs, in music, in movies and in the casual conversations they overhear of the increasing number of foreigners on the city streets. To know English is (10) (include) in the rest of the world, even if your world is limited to China.
1.where 2.learning 3 .that 4 .from 5.poorer
6 .is 7. rather than 8.should 9.tho 0.to be included
解析
1.考察定语从句，先行词是the world
2.考察搭配，be dedicated to doing致力于做某事
3.考察宾语从句，此处that不可省略
4.考察介词， 分散....的注意力
5.考察形容词比较级，poorer
6.考察谓语动词，主语是English，因此填is。
7.考察连词，rather than表转折。
8.考察情态动词，此处填should最合适。
9.考查定语从句，tho做先行词译为那些人。
10.考察文章理解，要了解英语就是要去融入世界的其他地方，填to be included表目的
Section B 10%
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once.
A. adapted B. average C. brief D. celebrated E. practicing F. convinced G. disorders H. editing I. erad J. extraordinary K. fair |
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Ruthie Weiss’s basketball team emed to be minutes away from its fourth straight loss. But even as she stood on the sidelines for a(n) (1) rest, the nine-year-old had not given up. She (2) the coach to put her back in the game. Swish! Ruthie scored a quick two points, putting her team in the lead. The team had earned its first win of the ason, and (3) as if it had just taken the national championship.
What makes Ruthie’s performance even more (4) is her DNA. Becau of a misspelling in one of her genes, she has albinism: her body produces very little of the pigment melanin, which means that her skin and hair are (5) , and that she is legally blind. Her visual acuity is ten times wor than (6) . She is still learning to read and will
probably never be able to drive a car, but she can make out the basket and her teammates well enough to shoot, pass and play.
In January, Ruthie’s dad Ethan asked her whether she wished that her parents had corrected the gene responsible for her blindness before she was born. Ruthie didn’t hesitate before answering — no. Would she ever consider (7) the genes of her own future children to help them to e? Again, Ruthie didn’t blink — no.
The answer made Ethan Weiss, a physician–scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, think. Weiss is well aware of the rapid developments in gene-editing technologies — techniques that could, theoretically, prevent children from being born with deadly (8) or with disabilities such as Ruthie’s. And he believes that if he had had the option to edit blindness out of Ruthie’s genes before she was born, he and his wife would have jumped at the chance. But now he thinks that would have been a mistake: doing so might have (9) some of the things that make Ruthie special — her determination, for instance. Last ason, when Ruthie had been the worst player on her basketball team, sh
e had decided on her own to improve, and had been (10) at every opportunity. Changing her disability, he suspects, “would have made us and her different in a way that we would have regretted”, he says. “That’s scary.”
