一、语法：01. 2018-2019 学年洋泾中学高二下英语 3 月月考
One of the most ___17___（fascinate）things about television is the size of 阿涅斯瓦尔达the audience. A novel can be on the
“bestller” lists with a sale of fewer than 100,000 copies, but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV
can make 庐山的云雾anything or ___18___ well-known overnight. This is the principle behind “quiz” or “game” shows, ___19___
put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can 鸡蛋怎么孵出小鸡give
away thousands of dollars. Charles Van Doran, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on
veral shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the lors proved that Charles Van Doran was
cheating. 域名信息It turned out that the show’s producers who were pulling the strings, gave七夕节是什么意思 the answers to the most popular
contestants beforehand. Why? Becau ___20___ the audience didn’t like the person who won the game, they turned the
TV off. The result of this cheating was a huge scandal. ___21___（ba）on his story, a movie under the title “Quiz Show”
is on 40 years later. Charles Van Doran is no longer involved with T V. But game shows are still here, though they
___22___（not, take）as riously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that nd
strangers on vacation trips together, or that try to cau newly-married couples to fight on T V, or that qq炫舞怎么玩punish lors by
humiliating them. The entertainment now is to e ___23___ people will do just to be on T V. People still win money, but
the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.
答案：17. fascinating 18. anyone 19. which 20. if 21. Bad 22. aren’t taken 23. what
二、语法：02. 2018-2019 学年洋泾中学高二下英语 3 月月考
Conflicts and disappointments are natural side effects of the human experience, but for a certain personality type
known as a“drama queen”，life’s little tbacks can trigger explosive emotional 西教台outbursts and other irrational behaviors.
The team“drama queen”or ___24___（frequently），“drama king”—is usually applied to someone with a demanding or
overbearing（蛮横的）personality who ___25___（tend）to overreact to emingly mino
r incidents. A drama queen often
views the world in absolutes, and only has two ttings on her emotional control button: zero and ten.
In literature, the character Scarlett O’Hara from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind would be considered a
drama queen by today’s standards. This type of person is lf=centered and lf-absorbed, often viewing friends and
relatives as lesr beings ___26___（assign）to take care of her personal needs. Her worst enemy is solitude（独处），
so she tends to be very outgoing and sociable, ___27___ many of her friendships tend to remain at surface level. Others
who have experienced the drama queen’s sudden outbursts in the past may have a feeling of walking on egg shells
around her, ___28___（not want）to be the person who delivers uptting news or offends her in any way.
In adult life, ___29___（consider）a drama queen or a drama king is generally not a good thing. Co-workers or
superiors may fear confronting such a person at the workplace, since she usually does not take personal criticism very
well. She may find ___30___ out of the social or political loop（圈）at work, since her tendency to overreact or lash out at
others irrationally makes it difficult for others to trust her with nsitive information.
玉文化答案：24. less frequently 25. tends 26. assigned 27. although 28. not wants 29. being considered 30. herlf
