2019-2020学年七宝中学高三上英语期中考试试卷

七宝中学高三上英语期中考试

Ⅱ. Grammar

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in he blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blanks with the proper form of the given word; for the blanks,use one word that best fits each blank.

When I worked part-time in a local bookstore at my early age -- so easily - pictured, if you do not work in one, as a kind of paradise where not only [21] ________ one read his own favorite books but also encounter charming young ladies (one of my personal fantasies) who browse eternally among Toni Morrison or Ernest Hemingwast thing that chiefly struck me was that really bookish people are a rarity, [22] ________ there are vast numbers of those who consider themselves to be such. Often they will introduce themselves when they enter the bookshop [23] ________ ‘book people’ and insist on telling you that ‘we love books’. They will wear T-shirts or carry bags with slogans explaining exactly how much they think they adore books. It is clear that the was they dress themselves is quite similar to that of us bookish people, but that is [24] ________ the similarities between them and us begin and end. And [25] ________ (sure) means of identifying them is that they never, ever buy books.

These days it is so rare that I find time to read that, when I do, it feels like indulgence, more so than any, other sensory experience. When an important relationship in my twenties [26] ________ (break) up the only thing I could do was to read, and I amassed a pile of books [27] ________ ________ I sank and escaped from the world around me and inside me. The landscapes of Y u Hua, Wang Shou, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harper Lee and others protected me from my own thoughts, which were pushed into the background, where

[28]________ could silently process without bothering me. I created a physical wall on my desk,

[29] ________ (make) from the books, and as I read them the wall slowly came down until it was gone.

In a more real sense, books are the best way in which one enriches his own life and the enormous numbers of them out there in the world excite me, especially when I visit second-hand bookstores with no intention [30] ________ (search) for a certain book. It is like casting a net and never knowing what you will find when you gather it in. As Goglo put in it in Dead Souls: “Once,

long ago, in the years of my youth, in the years of my childhood, which have flashed irretrievably （不能挽回地）by, it was a joy for me to drive for the very first time to a place unknown.”

Ⅱ. V ocabulary

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only by used once. Do note that there is one word more than you need.

attention to themselves and I am one of them. All my life, I have been trying very hard to avoid developing any permanent [31] ________ with anyone. I manage it by intentionally minimizing my interaction with people around me to the lowest possible extent. I have been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave [32] ________ houses. Some people might call it social phobia（社交恐惧症）and consider it a huge problem that needs to be resolved. But truth he told, I kind of enjoy this sense of rootlessness, knowing there will be less [33] ________ on me.

It seems I am always attached to the good [34] ________ of life but detached from life itself. It’s just like reading one of those well-received travel books. One only gets the chance to read all the fascinating stories accompanied with [35] ________ beautiful sights. Therefore, one’s ideas and expectations of travel have been built up unrealistically. But when one gets his own chance to go travelling, he suddenly finds out it is not like that because travelling can be, and most of the time, will be filled with all those meaningless and disappointing trivia（琐事）. And that’s how after a few [36] ________ attempts one starts to prefer reading travel books to travelling.

It also began to [37] ________ on me that real life is a woman too good-looking for me. It’s a voyage too long, book too lavishly-illustrated, so I don’t have the courage to step into it. But when entering a book of stories, I know I can emerge from it feeling I have been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that [38] ________ in their own unique ways, my body full of sentences and

[39] ________ as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

I don’t think I can or need to find a panacea（灵丹妙药）for my “problem” and of course, I don’t expect others to offer help. In most cases, when one takes in another man’s poison, [40] ________ imagining he can cure him by sharing it, one will instead end up storing it within. So as long as I can live in peace and harmony with my weirdness, this very weirdness is something I would like to cherish rather than get rid of

Ⅱ. Cloze /The May Fourth Movement 1919 - 2019

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

At the end of the First World War, in 1918. China was convinced it would be able to