2018届上海市建平中学高三上学期开学考试英语试题

2017-2018学年建平中学高三开学考

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.

Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression ___21___ nurses are there to wait on the position.

As nurses, we ____22_____ (license) to provide nursing care only. We provide health teaching, and physical as well as emotional problems, coordinate patient- related services and make all our nursing decisions based upon what is ___23___(good) or suitable for the patient. If, in any circumstance, we feel that a physician’s order is inappropriate or unsafe, we have a legal responsibility ____24____(question) that order, or refuse to carry it out.

Nursing is not a nine-to-five job __25__ every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that ___26___ they enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress, however, __27__ occurs due to hard working hours is a prime reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month. That disturbs our personal lives and disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, isolating us from everything __28__ job-related friends and activities.

The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates because experienced nurses finally give up __29___(try) to change the system. If trends continue as ___30__(predict), they will find that most critical hospital care will be provided by new inexperienced and sometimes inadequately-trained nurses.

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.

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” But parents can’t handle it

new field for the age-old battle between adults and their freedom-craving kids.

Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with their friends,

friends. What they do online often mirrors what they might otherwise do if their

media and smart phones apps have become so popular in recent years. Teens want the

Internet, imagining all the potential dangers that youth might face---from violent strangers to cruel peers.

Rather than helping teens develop strategies for discussing public life and the potential risks of interacting with others, fearful parents have focused on tracking,

complex socia l situations, assess risks and get help when they’re in trouble. It gradually weakens the learning that teens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soaked world.

—plus communication. Famed urban theorist Jane Jacobs used to argue that the

paid attention to what happened on the streets. Safety didn’t come from keeping