2016虹口区高考英语二模试题

2016虹口区高考英语二模试题

2016虹口区高考英语二模试题

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

“Time,” says the proverb, “is money”. This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets.

If our time 25 ________(employ), it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. Let those,

26________ think nothing of wasting time, remember this.

Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked 27_________ we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life.

But we often care nothing about the loss of an hour or of a day,

28_______(forget) that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. Our life is a brief period measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. So a day or an hour 29______(waste)is therefore so much life lost. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be

spent over our meals;some in watching sick-beds of our 30_______(near) relatives; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea.

Now if all these years were to be decreased from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal(处置 ) for active work. 31______remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.

The precious hour of childhood and youth, if properly32________(supply)us incalculable advantages.If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recover the loss.

B

People need homes: children assume their parents' place as home; broaders call school “home” on weekda ys; married couples work together 33_________(build)new homes; and travelers…have no place to call

So how 34__________people who have to travel for long periods of time? Don't they have the right to have a home? Of course they do.

Some regular travelers take their own belongings like bed sheets, toothbrushes and family photos to make them feel like home 35______

_______ _______ they are; some stay for long periods in the same hotel and as a result become very familiar with service and attendants; others 36

________simply put some flowers by the hotel window to make things more homely. Furthermore, driving a camping car during one's travels and sleeping in the vchicle at night is just like 37_________ is generally thought of as “home” -only mobile.

And how about maintaining relationships while in transit?Some keep contact with their friends via internet; some send letters and postcards, or even photos; 38__________may just call