2017年“上外杯”上海市高中英语竞赛
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蜥蜴英语怎么读初赛试题考生注意：
一、本卷共11页、75小题，满分100分。答卷时间90分钟。
二、本卷所有题目均为选择题，请将所选答案用2B铅笔点涂在答题卡上。
I. Vocabulary（12分）
A. need explanation B. abandoned C. managed to make D.pilot airplanes
AB. without chewing AC. instead AD.experiment on BC.as a matter of fact
BD. digesting an elephant CD. exhausting for children
ABC.put mylf on his level ABD. in the cour of my life
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Directions:好厨师Complete the following passage by using the words or phras in the box. Each word or phra can only be ud once. Note that there is one word or phra more than you need.
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book about a jungle, called True Stories. It showed a boa constrictor swallowing a wild beast.
In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole,____1____. Afterward they are no longer able to move, and they sleep during the six months of their digestion."
In tho days I thought a lot about jungle adventure, and eventually ____2____my first drawing, using a colored pencil. My Drawing Number One.
I showed the grown-ups my masterpiece, and I asked them if the drawing scared them.
They answered: " Why be scared by a hat?"
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor ____3____. T
hen I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could understand. They always ____4____.
The grown-ups advid me to put away my drawings of boa constrictors, the inside or the outside, and apply mylf ____5____ to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, I ____6____, at the age of six, a magnificent career as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themlves, and it is ____7____ to provide explanation over and over again.
春节回家So then I had to choo another career, and learned to ____8____. I have flown almost everywhere in the world. And 金灿灿造句____9____, geography has been a big help to me. I can tell China from Arizona at first glance, which is very uful if you get lost during the night.
So I have had, ____10____, lots of encounters with lots of rious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have en them at clo range… which hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
Whenever I encountered a grown-up who emed to me at all enlightened, I would ____11____ him with my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I wanted to e if he really understood anything. But he would always answer, "That is a hat." Then I wouldn’t talk about boa constrictors or jungles or stars. I would ____12____. I would talk about bridge and golf and politics and neckties. And the grown-up was glad to know such a reasonable person.
II. Grammar （8分）
Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once.
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转音A. then B. while C. as D. down AB. that AC.but
AD. away BC. within
The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, ____13____ lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul ____14_
___ a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard clo to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and ____15____ swearing savagely to himlf; and looking, beheld nothing. Yet the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety ____16____ distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. It grew to a climax, diminished again, and died 处暑诗句____17____in the distance, going ____18____ it emed to him in the direction of Adderdean. It lifted to a spasmodic sneeze and ended. Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning's occurrences, ____19____the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished; he got up hastily, and hurried ____20____ the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.
III. Cloze （30分）
Directions:For each blank in the following passages 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.
(A)
Everybody has heard of Jimmy Carter. As president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, he oversaw a particularly ____21____ time in American history. Americans taken hostage in the Middle East, major gasoline shortages around the ____22____, and a poor relationship with a potential enemy – the Soviet Union – are hardly the stuff of pleasant memories.
Yet even though Carter held America’s most powerful office, he will probably be ___23____ more for the work he has done since he left the White Hou. His ____24____ on humanitarian issues around the world ts him apart as a caring, dedicated person who wants to e tho of low economic or social status ____25____ from the great wealth, power, and generosity of this country.
