虹口区2016-2017学年度第一学期期终教学质量监控测试
高三英语 试卷 2016.12
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.
Wedding in the United States
Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do. There are church weddings with a great deal of fanfare; there are weddings on mountain tops with guests (21) _____ (at) on the rocks and even barefooted; and there have been weddings on the ocean floor
with oxygen tanks for the guests. But many weddings, (22) _____ _____ _____ or how they are performed，include certain traditional customs.
Before a couple is married, they become engaged. And then invitations are nt to tho who live nearby, their clo friends and their relatives who live far away. When everything is ready, then comes (23) _____ (exciting) moment of all.
The wedding itlf usually lasts between 20 and 40 minutes. The wedding party is walking through the aisle of the church as the Wedding March (24) _____ (play). The bride carrying a bouquet (花束) enters last with her father who will “give her away”. The groom enters the church from a side door. When the wedding party is gathered by the altar (圣坛), the bride and groom exchange vows. (25) _____ is traditional to u the words “To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for wor, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part”. (26) _____ (follow) the vows, the couple exchange rings. Wearing the wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand is an old custom.
(27) _____ the ceremony there is often a party called a “reception”, which gives the wedding guests an opportunity to congratulate the newlywed.马拉松是多少公里
The car in (28) _____ the couple leaves the church is decorated with balloons, streamer and shaving cream. The words “Just Married” are painted on the trunk or back window to tell people (29) _____ they are married. Now comes the last step of the wedding ceremony. As a tradition, the bride and the groom (30) _____ run to the car under a shower of rice thrown by the wedding guests. When the couple drives away from the church, friends often cha them in cars, honking (鸣喇叭) and drawing attention to them. And then the couple go on their honeymoon.
Section B
Directions:赤勺 Fill in each blank with a proper word chon from the box. Each word can be ud only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. public B. inadequate C. lowered D. relead E. disappointment F. casting G. possibility H. objective 杨方成 I. desperately J. balance K. compared |
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Why Aren’t Women Happier?
Why aren’t women happier the days?
That’s the question raid by a thought-provoking study, The Paradox 页面设置of Declining Female Happiness, __31__ last month. The rearch showed that over the past 35 years women’s happiness has declined, both __32__ to the past and relative to men even though the lives of women in the US have improved in recent decades by most __33__ measures.
The rearch, by University of Pennsylvania economists Stevenson and Wolfers, and made __34__ by the National Bureau of Economic Rearch, found the decline in happiness to be widespread among women across a variety of demographic (人口统计的) groups. The rearchers, for instance, measured similar declines in happiness among women who were single parents and married parents, “__35__ doubt on the hypothesis 舌绽莲花(假设) that trends in marriage and divorce, single parenthood or work/family __36__ are at the root of the happiness declines among women,” they wrote.
One theory for the decline in happiness is that expectations for workplace and general advancement were raid too high by the women’s movement and women might feel __37__ for not “having it all,” as a Los Angeles Times columnist recently put it.
The rearchers acknowledge that’s a __38__:
“If the women’s movement raid women’s expectations faster than society was able to meet them,” the paper says, “they would be more likely to experience __39__ in their lives.” But they add things could change for the better: “As women’s expectations move into adjustment with their experiences, this decline in happiness may rever.”
Readers, why do you think women are unhappier than in the past? Do you think that if expectations for “having it all” were __40__ to “move into adjustment微小金 with experiences,” women might be happier?
