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　　上海市延安中学2015学年第一学期期末考试
　　高三年级英语试卷
　　（考试时间：120分钟：  满分：l50分）
　　第I卷
　　II. Grammar &vocabulary
　　Section A (16)
　　Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, each blank with the proper form of the given word For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word Mare that your answers are grammatically    correct.
　　(A)
　　The courses of the Essex English Language Program valuable though they were, did not pose a challenge to me. However, during the two weeks there, I still failed on one simple but subtle question, “What else?’’
　　This question was raised by Alex, a teacher from the University of Essex. And I was the      ignorant student who blankly stared at the textboo.st like my Japanese classmate. In front of me was a picture of the first Ford Model T assembly line. You must have seen similar old pictures, ___25___workers are proudly fixing the bolts and checking car lever.
　　A minute before, Alex asked, "According to the picture, what are the differences between the     factories today and back then?"
　　"The assembly line was less mechanized then, I promptly answered.
　　Dead silence. I pretended to ponder over the question, but actually I got _26_ in my head.  How __27____there be anything else different? Isn't the assembly line an idea so brilliant that it has been passed down without any major changes? It was the Japanese student next to me__28____ broke the silence:"There were no protective devices ___29____ the workers." "Rig ht. There were no protections. What else?" Alex kept digging.
　　Of course! There were no protective devices. How could I have overlooked that? I, for the first time, started to doubt my intellect while___30___ (struggle)with the second "What else?"
　　Shiho, who sat on my left, already had an idea: "There were child laborers." Obviously, there was a kid standing right in front of the camera. What else? Tom found out that there were no women. What else? Now it was Tomomi's turn to point out that the workers seemed to live a___31___ (good) life than now, judging from their clothes. I sat there totally___32____ (beat). There answers were right under my eyes, but I could even spend another day staring at the picture without noticing them.
　　The “What else?”question was never about importance. It was about the souls alive behind the cold facts
　　Keys: in which, nothing, could, that, for, struggling, better, beaten
　　(B)
　　A huge fire has engulfed a 63-storey hotel in central Dubai ahead of a New Year’s Eve firework display. ___33_____ the blaze at the Address hotel, the display at the nearby Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, started as planned at midnight.
　　Officials say the fire ___34_____ largely under control and 16 people suffered mostly minor injures. It is unclear ___35_____ caused the blaze, which brot as large crowds had gathered to ring in the New Year. People were asked to leave the area around the Address Downtown Hotel, which was evacuated.
　　As I watched the flames engulf the massive building, I knew right away it was the Address Hotel in Dubai’s downtown district that overloorj Khalifa. I also knew that it was fully booked five years in advance. There were also thousands of people in the streets below and in the adjacent buildings, all waiting to view the highly anticipated New Year’s Eve fireworks display, ___36_____ them my youngest sister. After checking on my sister, I hastily decided to head out to downtown Dubai in the hope of seeing the scene on the ground for myself.
　　As I approached downtown, I realized that the normally brightly illuminated Burj Khalifa was only half-lit and I could barely see the imposing structure amid the black smoke from the Address Hotel. I did not expect to spend the next four hours right outside the downtown area, in one of the worst traffic jams I have ever encountered. ___37_____ the clocck midnight, I resigned myself to ringing in the New Year among thousands of strangers, all gazing out of our cars towards Burj Khalifa’s spectacular fireworks display, alongside a burning hotel.
　　It started on the 20th floor, officials said, and had not spre