静安区学年高二英语教学质量检测

静安区2016-2017学年高二英语教学质量检测

考生注意：

1．考试时间105分钟，试卷满分100分。

2．本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第I卷(第1-11页)和第II卷(第12页)，

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第I卷(共75分)

I. Listening Comprehension(略)

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, use one word that best fits each blank.

The days of elderly women cooking huge meals on holidays and knitting themselves slowly into senior life are gone.

Enter the Red Hat Society -- a group dedicated to the new concept (17)________old ladies

should have fun.

“My grandmothers did (18)_____ but keep house and serve everybody. They were

programmed to do that,”said Emily Cornette, founder of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat

Society. The group has chapters in all 50 . states and 25 countries.

While men have long spent their retirement fishing, women always seem to become

invisible as they (19)______(age). But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers, and

the same people who rejected their parents’ way of being young are now making a new way of

growing old.

With a bit of disposable income and (20)______(good) health compared with the past

generation for most elderly into the mix, the Red Hat Society starts to look almost inevitable.

“This is something just for me,” Cornette said. She kept an eagle eye out for guests with

empty cups or plates that needed (21)______(refill). "There aren’t any rules, really. We are doing (22)_____can’t be imagined by old-time women. We are just looking for fun.”

According to its founder Cooper, she (23)______(inspire) when she saw a poem by Jenny

Joseph that begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn’t go.”

Cooper gave her friend a copy of the poem, along with a red hat, (24) _____ served as the

symbol of the organization. Soon other women wanted red hats, and they (25)_____(attract)

thousands of participants since then.

“The point of this is that we women could have fun for ourselves instead of doing things

just for others,”Cooper said in a telephone interview. “We are forming a little society (26)_____

we can feel relaxed and delighted along with our peers.”

Section B

Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only

be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

July 18, 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, one

of the

best-known writers in English literature. Her legacy of social acclaim and impressive wit have

ensured her place in literary history, and even today, modem readers are still 27 by the

huge information and concepts her novels have delivered.

But do you know that Jane’s work was sort of drawn from her own life? Many

of the places and people in Jane’s work are 28 to those in her real life. Jane moved as part of society, and her writing 29 some impressive wit, cleverly teasing the upper class by which Jane was surrounded. Following her father’s death, Jane and her mother faced a financial difficulty much like that of the Dashwood women

in Sense and Sensibility who have to live a 30 life. Jane spent a good deal

of time in the town of Bath, which is the 31 of

both Northanger Abbey and Persuasion ---although Persuasion portrays the town in

a more

negative light.