试卷编号：23009
2022-2023学年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试
上海英语模拟试卷
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.
Discovering a Brother
Kieron Graham always knew he had an older brother. His adoption papers, signed and aled when he was three months old, listed a brother named Vincent but no last name. Though Kieron spent years (21) _______ (think) about Vincent, he could never track him do
wn.
That changed in December 2017, (22) _______ Kieron's adoptive parents gave their four adopted children AncestryDNA tests as Christmas gifts. Kieron, now 21, nt his saliva (唾液) sample in for analysis. When his results came back, he was surprid to find he had some DNA matches for relatives who (23) _______ (take) the test, too. Most were distant connections, but one match was so strong that it (24)_______ (label) "clo family59. His name was Vincent Ghant. Kieron looked for him online and soon made a possible connection. "This is going to sound so wild .......but you em (25) _______ (be) my brother,” Kieron wrote on the instant messaging app.
“I was given up (26) _______ adoption in 1997 and it says on my paperwork that my mother has a son with your name and your birth date. Her name is Shawn.”
“OMG do you know your real name?" wrote Vincent, now 30.
"I think it was Tyler."
“OMG YES!!! You are my brother.”
“Wow,” wrote Kieron.
“This is crazy." said Vincent.津门十景
The craziness was just beginning. As they talked, the brothers realized they lived about 20 minutes from each other, outside of Atlanta. More mind-blowing, they attended the same university and majored and minored in the same subjects: political science and legal studies.圭尔夫大学
“What are the odds we're parated our entire lives and then end up at the same school with the same interests?" says Kieron.
Now the brothers had the chance to make up for the (27)_______ (lo) time. They decided to meet at a local tea shop that week. "I was really nervous ," says Kieron.
西米露的做法 "I was wondering (28)_______ I should say.”As he waited outside the shop, he heard s
omeone call his name, and he suddenly found (29) ________in a hug with the brother he'd thought about his entire life.
The men went inside and talked. "We connected," says Vincent, "(30) _______ _______ we already knew each other."一个人的电影
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. affected B. community C. condition D. contact E. decread F. delivered G. fearful H. intensity I. meaningful J. rious K. unrealistic |
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Loneliness
实质重于形式原则 University found one in four Australians feel lonely with many reporting anxiety about s
ocialising and 30 per cent saying they didn't feel part of a group of friends. Both young and old people are_____31_____, though people over 65 are the least lonely "People tell me their friends don't ring them anymore/5 says William Yeates, who now runs webinars to bring people together others. “One lady told me she doesn't get any visitors; the only time she has any human _____32_____ is in the weekly webinar. I invited her out for lunch but she couldn't do it. She was too_____33 _____.”
Worryingly, one in eight young people aged 18-25 report a very high_____34_____ of loneliness, and are more likely than older people to feel greater levels of social anxiety. Even school-aged children report feeling lonely and isolated and say they don't have_____35_____ connections with people around them.
乌沙镇 While people have always felt lonely—it's part of the human_____36 _____—there's no doubt that the modem world, with longer commuting times and greater numbers of people living alone, has worned the trend. Irene Verins, a manager at Mental Wellbeing, VicHealth, says loneliness in
民国女子服饰younger people aged 18 to 25 is often driven by _____37_____
So _____38_____ is loneliness internationally that the UK government appointed a Minister for Loneliness and in 2011 launched a Campaign to End Loneliness. It's estimated that every £1 spent on relieving loneliness in Britain has _____39_____ a £2-£3 saving in costs for the economy. That's becau the loneliness of individual people impacts the social togetherness of the whole _____40 _____. The fewer lonely people, the lower the healthcare costs and the greater the wellbeing of everyone. "This is national issue," says Verins.斗马节
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A, B5 C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.
How did Cape Town, South Africa, get into a Day Zero situation—when the city's taps would go dry becau its rervoirs （水库）would become dangerously low on water? The city gets its water from six rervoirs in Western Cape province, which usually _____41_____ during the rainy ason, from May through August. But since 2015 the region has been suffering from the worst drought （干 旱）in a century, and the water in tho rervoirs_____ 42_____ tremendously. Compounding the problem, Cape Town's population has grown substantially, increasing _____43_____ . The city actually did a pretty good job by reducing leaks in the system, a major cau of water waste, and has even won awards for its _____44_____ policies. But the government of South Africa was slow to declare a national disaster in the areas hit hardest by the drought, paving the way for the recent _____45 _____.
