上海市青浦高级中学高三英语上学期期中试题(无答案)牛津上海版

上海市青浦高级中学高三英语上学期期中试题（无答案）牛津上

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I.Grammar amid Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: Read the following passage. For some blanks there is a word given in the brackets. Fill in each of these blanks with the proper form of the given word Fill in the other blanks with words that are correct in structure and proper in meaning

(A)

Mr. Jackson lived in the center of London but he had a hotel near the airport. There a lot of foreigners stayed for night. He didn’t know any ____25__ language but English and he found it difficult for him to understand the foreign visitors. Sometimes he had to use the gesture to talk with them, and tried his best to make himself ___26___(understand). But he was often misunderstood (误解) and it brought him a lot of trouble. A friend of his___27___ taught a few foreign languages in a university would teach him. He was happy and studied hard. At first he learned some, but soon he found it wasn’t very easy to remember the words and expressions. His friend advised him to write down the useful expressions in his notebook so that he ___28___ use them when necessary. He did as he was told. He found it helpful for him to do so.

One evening there were plenty of people in the dining-room. They were all busy eating something ____29__ a Japanese. He was wandering (徘徊) there,__30___ (wait) for his wife who was dressing herself up upstairs. Mr. Jackson thought to himself, “ The man wants to eat something but he doesn’t know any English. Let me help him.”

___31___ he knew only a little Japanese, he had to bring out his notebook and showed it to the man, pointing to the sentence “I’m hungry.” The Japanese had a look at it,____32___ him two pounds and left

(B)

What does the term phubbing mean?

The word was coined by Alex Haigh，a 23-year-old Melbourne resident. 'Phubbing' stands for 'phone snubbing, and describes "the act of ignoring someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of _33（pay）attention to them".

Now 'Stop Phubbing' 34 (become) the online home of a campaign against digitally derived rudeness recently.

The motive behind the effort is quite straightforward: to highlight the embarrassment of 35__ (ignore) in public places, text-tapping fingers during personal dinners and coffee dates that 36 as well have been taken online. Among all, the 37 innovative bit of the campaign are the wedding place cards that you can download to place on tables during your big day. It asks guests to pay attention to the wedding and not play with their phones! According to statistics,