2017-2018上海复旦附中高一上期中考试

2017-2018 上海市复旦附中高一上学期期中考试

Grammar and Vocabulary: (18%)

Section A (8%)

Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.

21. The discovery of gold in Australia led thousands to believe that a fortune_________.

A, had been making B. was making C. was to be made D. would make 22. The president hopes that people will be better off when he quits than when he _________.

A. has started

B. starts

C. will start

D. started

23. Travellers to that area can carry disease to their own countries that have never experienced _________.

A. them

B. it

C. themselves

D. itself

24. No one can tell the exact number of U.S. pilots and fighter planes ________were lost in the Pearl Harbor air attack.

A. who

B. which

C. that

D. what

25. ____________, the climbers, who had already conquered many high mountains before, determined to reach the top of the mountain.

A. However it was high

B. How high it was

C. However high it was

D. However high was it

26. They will not allow others to decide the future of their country, _________.

A. which is to be known

B. as is to be known

C. as is known to all

D. as what is known to all

27. We have come to realize that the brain must “forget”some pieces of information ________it can remember others.

A. when

B. since

C. so that

D. if

28. They are our school’s volunteers _______to help elderly people cross the streets every day.

A. whose task it is

B. it is whose task

C. to whom is the task

D. whose task was

Section B (10%)

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

Sept 27 is World Tourism Day. Of course, travel isn’t a new discovery. Imagine how Italian traveler Marco Polo must have felt when he found himself on Chinese ____29_____, seeing a way of life quite different from anything he’d seen before.

And how ___30______ must it have been to listen to Zhang Qian when he returned to China from his journey through Central Asia and West Asia? His brain

must have been packed with everything he’d seen and heard, leading to the ____31_____ of the Silk Road.

Travel is one of the most exciting experiences a human being can have. Nowadays, more people are traveling than ever before. By train, plane and car, people all around the globe are ____32_____ to places that people didn’t even know ____33_____ a few centuries ago, or only knew from books.

Some people have traveled all over the world, and travel is a way of life to them. They perhaps know what to expect before they travel. That’s why the best travel is when it’s for the first time. Imagine a person who has always wanted to travel to the United States. Of course, they’ve probably seen the Statue of Liberty a thousand times on the TV, and the White House, and all the other famous _______34__. But none of that would compare to the ___35______ of looking out of the cabin window as the plane lands, watching the cities and streets of the real America come into_____36____.

Although travel is often just for fun, it’s also ____37_____. We may not know that we are getting an education, but we still are.

We’re learning every day: new words in a new language, new people, and new ways of life. But this learning takes place in the school of the world, not the classroom. One of the lessons we learn is ____38_____ a moral one. As we get to know foreign places, we come to understand that there are many different ways to live, and that the way we live isn’t necessarily the best way. The British politician Benjamin Disraeli summed this up well when he said, “Travel teaches toleration.”