2017届上海市高考压轴卷：英语试卷(含答案)

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2017上海高考压轴卷

英语

I. Listening Comprehension

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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.

(A)

Most children love being told about Nursery Rhymes. The most

(25)________(popularity) rhymes are listed here. Even elders love to hear these rhymes that are sweet to our ears forever. These rhymes speak volumes about the interest (26)_______(show) by the education department (27) _________(ensure) the children to speak out.

The list is clearly not exhaustive but it (28)_______(believe) that a good cross section of famous poems for children have been included. We have selected the most famous Nursery Rhymes for children. We have done (29)_______best to collect all the Nursery Rhymes from all sources and add them here for your reference.The (30)_____(add) of more and more rhymes is going on every day.

These Nursery Rhymes for children have been passed down over the years and due to the short nature of the verse can easily be remembered by most children from a very age. Analysis of these Nursery Rhymes will reflect the

(31)_____(history) background (32)________these Nursery Rhymes were written.

(B)

A Minnesota police force has threatened to punish drink drivers with Justin

Bieber’s dance moves if they get behind the wheel while intoxicated. Police in Wyoming tweeted that drink drivers would be forced (33)___________(watch) Bieber’s Super Bowl advert “the entire way to jail”. The pop star (34)________(see) performing celebratory end zone dances.(35)_________(fortunate), no drink driving arrests were made. Bieber’s advert aired during the Super

Bowl,(36)________he is heard saying:”This guy’s got the shimmedy sham-sham shimmedy shake right there”. Twitter users praised the police (37)_______the tongue-in-cheek tweet,which was retweeted nearly 10,000 times.Wyoming Police Chief Paul told the Pioneer Press that (38)___________tweet helped push the public service announcement about (39)________(irresponsible) drinking during the Super Bowl”. It gets people to actually stop and read the message”. Paul said. After the New England Patriot (40)________(win) the game in a 34-28 comeback,the Wyoming police changed their message. They made fun at the way many Americans love to hate the Patriots.

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Recently, as I was passing a park, I heard a male voice. A man was 41 his young dog. With a clear, strong, yet tender 42 , he was teaching his dog to sit and the dog did 43 he was commanded. Then after they walked a few steps, they 44 the process. He praised his dog and the dog was very 45 .

Actually the man was teaching the dog 46 than that. He taught the dog focus and discipline. What really struck me was that he took the 47 and got the most from that dog.