上海英语模拟试卷6
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.
Cats are actually surprisingly bad at catching rats
If you are annoyed by rats, think twice about getting a cat. A cat might lead to the appearance of a rat-free home, but it turns out that the rats are still there. They are just keeping a low profile.
"Cats are not the natural enemy of rats," says Michael Parsons of Fordham University, New York. "They prefer smaller prey.”
His team (21)_______ (study) a rat colony at a recycling plant in New York in the past few years. When cats moved into the plant last year, the rearchers were disappointed, but decided to t up cameras (22) _______(monitor) the area.
或应 Over five months, they saw just three attempts by cats to catch rats, only two of (23) _______succeeded.
Cats have good reasons to be cautious. The common rat has large teeth that can give a painful bite and carry lots of dias. They also (24) _______(weigh) 340 grams on average一compared with 25 grams for a mou.
Parsons thinks that only starving cats will attempt to catch rats, (25) _______ the rats are sick or injured. The two rats (26) _______(kill) during the team's study may have been weakened by eating poisoned food, he says.
However, cats do have a big influence on rat behaviour. "Rats overestimate the risk caud by cats,” says Parsons. His team found that when cats are in the area, rats spend
中国篮协much more time in (27) _______(hide) and move around cautiously. That means they are much less likely to be en by people, which could explain (28)_______ most people wrongly think cats are good at killing rats.
Some cat owners may (29)_______(convince) their pets are excellent ratters. But Parsons has found that many people mistake mice (30)_______rats. That said, it is possible there are a few exceptional cats that do take on healthy, adult rats, he says.
炮制是什么意思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.
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A. contributors B. describing C. distinct D. favorites E. invitations F. limits G. name H. pleasurable L recall J. unexplored K. uful |
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The unique joy of learning new words
With all that's happening in the news, life can feel like an exerci in determining the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depresd? Lonely or stresd?
Tim Lomas, a nior lecturer in positive psychology at the University of East London, is engaged in the opposite effort: analyzing all the types of well-being that he can find. Specifically, Lomas is eking to uncover psychological insights by collecting untranslatable words that describe_____31____ feelings we don't have terms for in English. "It's almost like each one is a window onto a new landscape," Lomas says. So far, with the help of many _____32_____ he has collected nearly 1,000 in what he calls a “positive lexicography （词 典学）". 对自己说的话
多喝茶有什么好处 People are fascinated with untranslatable words in part becau they are _____33_____: How el could we talk to each other about the guilty pleasure of schadenfreude? But Lomas also es them as a means of showing us "new possibilities fbr ways of living,” describing them as _____34_____ for people to experience happy phe
nomena that may previously have been "hidden from them" or to take delight in feelings they couldn't previously _____35_____ . Consider the Japane ohanami, a word for gathering with others to appreciate lowers.健康管理中心
Linguists （语言学家）have long argued about how much the language we speak---partly determined by factors like geography and climate—_____36_____ the thoughts we are capable of having or the actions we can take. "The worlds in which different societies live are _____37_____worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached," wrote the theorist Edward Sapir.
Studying the words in Lomas' collection, at the least, is a means of reflecting on ways that we can feel good. When asked for one of his _____38_____ . the psychologist lists the German Femweh, which describes a longing to travel to distant lands, a kind of homesickness for the _____39_____ . Also delightful is the Danish morgenfrisk, _____40_____ the satisfaction one gets from a good night's sleep, and the Latin otium, highlighting the joy of being in control of one's own time.
III. Reading Comprehension
旅行线路Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.
Many people I know（including members of my family） feel exerci is a time-consuming9 unpleasant activity. The need to change into other clothes, to frequently take a block of time out of busy lives, and to get dirty and exhausted: they find it all _____41_____ . But I've always_____ 42_____the hard work and even the satisfaction of earning the next day's sore muscles. And I had a slight n of pride in knowing not only that I was helping the biological machinery that promotes health but also that I got a nice side_____ 43_____of being able to eat cookies becau I'd burned extra calories.
