上海市交通大学附属中学2021届高三9月开学考试
英语试题
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage 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.
This is not the end of meat
It is true that some Americans have had to adapt to some changes during the pandemic. Some slaughter-hous shut down as the virus ran rampant through the workforce. One Tyson Foods pork-processing plant clod after more than 20% of (21) ________ employe
es tested positive. Hundreds of Wendy's locations can out of burgers. Grocery stores put limits on how much meat customers (22) ________ buy. But while Eating Animals author Jonathan Sarfran Fore took to the New York Times to declare, " The end of meat is here," and others have noted the incread sales of plant-bad meat products like Beyond Burgers, there is little evidence that any change in our eating habits will stick.
(23) ________ history tells us is that Americans become upt about meat only when production is shown to be unsanitary〔不卫生的〕, or when supply reduces and prices go up. In fact, meat is so central to the American diet that President Trump has sought to keep supermarket butcher cas full with far more urgency than he has approached other aspects of the pandemic. Not only did he issue an Executive Order (24) ________ (consider) processors of beef, pork and poultry critical infrastructure, 昨天用英语怎么说
he also announced billions of dollars in relief for food producers, much of (25) ________ will benefit industrial-meat companies. The actions are not surprising: if tho cas were empty on his watch, it would mean he (26) ________ (fail) to defend a fundamental, part of the country's cultural structure.
Of cour, it's no关于羊的成语
t as if we didn't already have initiative (27) ________ (reduce) our meat consumption. It's well documented that animals (28) ________ (rai) for meat, dairy and eggs increa greenhou-gas emissions that cau climate change. And for years we were told to eat less red meat (29) ________ ________ links to heart dia, cancer and other health conditions. That produced a certain amount of change in the American diet, toward move chicken. But (30) ________ 1999 Gallup poll found that 6% of Americans identified as vegetarians. In 2021古代妃子等级
, that number was 5%.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chon from the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
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A. sympathy B. heartfelt C. valued D. terms E. rve F. compliment G. distraction H. thirsted I. obligation J. devoted K. affection |
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I'm a 50-something male, the father of two mostly grown girls. I'm happy to say that both my parents are still kicking. I'm on good __31__ with my brothers and sisters most of the time. I am
III. Reading Comprehensions blesd with good friends and other relations, and tend to get on well with my co-workers. I am fortunate in so many ways, but feel like I consistently disappoint everyone I know.
I cannot, for the life of me, give a genuine __32__. It simply doesn't come naturally. When I try, and I do, in order to maintain all the relationships, it feels forced, more a matter of __33__ than a gift that might put wind in the sails of someone I truly care for. I feel strongly that giving should spring from joy, or at least from a __34__ desire to e the recipient enlivened by it. When I have nothing to offer in respon to a job well done, everyone los. I feel like I've twisted the emotional and social development of my children, alienated〔疏远〕any number of 怀念故人的诗句
perfectly wonderful lovers, and generally kept the world at arm's length.
After years of psychotherapy and the obssive lf-examination common to my generation, I believe I kn关于信任的作文
ow where this meanness of spirit comes from. Six kids in total, at a very tender age, there were five younger, cuter kids standing between me and object of our __35__. Mama was driven to __36__, to put it mildly, by the demands placed on her, but it was the 1950s and she t a lfless and hardy example. I had complete __37__ for her difficult situation, even at the time. The fact remains, however, that, as a young child. I needed more than I got. I __38__ for my mother's attention. I needed to know that she __39__ me as more than her helper, her strong little man. I clearly recall, at the ripe old age of 7, coming to the conclusion that I would never get it. "That's OK," I reckoned, " I can get by without it". "it" being her love.
