5 2015年1月上海市静安区高三英语一模试卷及参考答案

静安区2014学年第一学期高三年级教学质量检测

英语试卷2014. 12

（120分钟完成; 总分：150分）

第I卷（共103 分）

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions:After reading the passages 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, use one word that best fits each blank.

(A)

There are 101 excuses for not writing or calling the media when you see unfair, biased or inaccurate news coverage: “I don’t know enough”; “I’m too busy”; “My computer crashed.”

（25）_______(communicate) with journalists makes a difference. It does not have to be perfect; not all letters to journalists need to be for publication. Even（26）_______ one-sentence, handwritten note to a reporter（27）_______ be helpful. If you take the time to type a substantive letter, send copies of it to two or three places within the media outlet —perhaps to the reporter, his or her editor, as well as to the letters-to-the-editor department.

If media outlets get letters from a dozen people（28）_______ (raise) the same issue, they will most likely publish one or two of them. So even if your letter（29）_______ ( not get) into print, it may help another one with a similar point of view get published. Surveys of newspaper readers show that the letters page i s among the most closely read parts of the paper. It’s also the page policy-makers look to as a barometer of public opinion.

（30）_______ you write to journalists, be factual, not rhetorical (带修辞色彩的). Do not personally

attack them; that’s more likely to co nvince them that they’re in the right. Address them in the language that most journalists（31）_______ (train) to understand. Call on them to be responsible, professional, balanced and inclusive of diverse sources and viewpoints.

Letters（32）_______ are intended for publication should usually be drafted more carefully.

(B)

Westminster Abbey, the gothic church, stands in the heart of modern London overlooking the River

Thames and Houses of Parliament. It started as a small monastery(修道院), （33）_______ (found) in the

year 960 by King Edgar, but soon became one of the most important churches in the kingdom.

King Edgar was the first monarch（34）_______ (bury) there in 1065. In the mid 13th Century, King

Henry III decided to rebuild it as a great gothic cathedral to rival（与. . . . . .相匹敌）（35）_______ in

France.

All monarchs have been crowned there（36）_______ William the Conqueror in 1066, and many