上海市2016届高考压轴考试英语试卷(解析版)

2016上海市高考压轴卷

英语

（考试时间120分钟试卷满分150分）

第I卷（共103分）

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)

This report is about how to be polite. It (25) ( examine ) how we can make our language more polite and how we can make sure we do not upset someone from another culture. The information can be accessed on the Internet.

It has been found that words such as ―would‖ and ―could‖ can be used to help us to be polite. For example, it is much (26) (good) to say ―Would you do this?‖ rather than ―Do this!‖. It is also suggested (27) it is useful to say ―Please‖ and ―Thank you‖. People from the West like to use these words in cases where some people in Asia may not think it necessary. (28) ( Say ) ―sorry‖ if we interrupt or disa gree (29) someone also helps us to be polite. For example, when we disagree, we should say ―I‘m sorry, but I think you are(30)_ (mistake)‖ rather than ―You‘re wrong!‖

In conclusion, we need to know the custom of a country so that we do not make others embarrassed. It seems that if people learn something about other (31)_ (culture) before they visit new countries, they (32) ( be) less likely to upset others.

(B)

An old friendship had grown cold. Where once there had been closeness, there was only strain. Now pride kept me from picking up the phone.

Then one day I dropped in on another old friend, who‘s had a long career as a minister and counselor. We were seated in his study----surrounded by maybe a thousand books and fell into deep conversation about everything from small computers to the tormented life of Beethoven.

The subject finally turned to friendship and(33)______ perishable it seems to be these days. I mentioned my own experience as an example. ―Relationships are mysteries,‖ my friend said. ―Some endure. (34)______ fall apart.‖

Gazing out his window to the wooded V ermont hills, he pointed toward a neighboring farm, ―Used to be a large barn over there.‖ Next to a red-frame house were the footings of (35)_______ had been a sizable structure.

“It was solidly built, probably in the 1870s. But like so many of the places around here, it went down because people left for richer lands in the Midwest. No one took care of the barn. Its roof needed (36) _______(patch); rainwater got under the eaves and dripped down inside the posts and beams.‖

One day a high wind came along, and the whole barn began to tremble. ―You could hear this creaking, first, like old sailing-ship timbers, and then a sharp series of cracks and a tremendous roaring sound. Suddenly it was a heap of scrap lumber.‖

“After the storm blew over, I went down and saw these beautiful, old oak timbers, solid as could be. I asked the fellow who owns the place what had happened. He said he figured the rainwater(37)_______(settle) in the pinholes, where wooden dowels held the joints together. Once those pins were rotted, there was nothing to link the giant beams together.‖We both gazed down the hill. Now all that was left of the barn was its cellar and its border of lilac shrubs.

My friend said he had turned the incident over and over in his mind, and finally came to recognize some parallels between building a friendship:(38)________ _____ _______ strong you are, how notable your attainments, you have enduring significance only in your relationship to others.

“To make your life a sound structure that will serve others and fulfill your own potential,‖ he said, ―you have to remember that strength, however massive, can‘t endure (39)______ it has the interlocking support of others. G o it alone and you‘ll inevitably tumble.‖