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　　上海市七宝中学2016年高三英语模拟考试(二)
　　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 blanse one word that best fits each blank.
　　(A)
　　Should we allow modern buildings to be built next to older buildings in a historic area of a city? In order to answer this question, we must first examine (25) __________ people really want to preserve the historic feel of an area. Not all historical buildings are attractive. However, there may be other reasons--- for example, economic reasons - (26) __________ they should be preserved. So, let us assume that historical buildings are both attractive and important to the majority of people. What should we do then if a new building (27) __________ (need)?
　　In my view, new architectural styles can exist perfectly well alongside an older style. Indeed, there are many examples in my own home town of Tours (28) __________ modern designs have been placed very successfully next to old buildings. (29) __________ __________ __________ the building in question is pleasing and does not dominate (影响) its surroundings too much, it often improves the attractiveness of the area.
　　It is true that there are examples of new buildings which (30) __________ (spoil) the area they are in, but the same can be said of some old buildings too. Yet people still speak against new buildings in historic areas. I think this is simply because people are naturally conservative(保守的) and do not like change.
　　Although we have to respect people's feelings as fellow users of the buildings, I believe that it is the duty of the architect and planner (31) __________ (move) things forward. If we always reproduced what was there before, we would all still be living in caves. Thus, I would argue (32) __________ copying previous architectural styles and choose something fresh and different, even though that might be the more risky choice.
　　(B)
　　Working with a group of baboons (狒狒)in the Namibian desert, Dr. Alecia Carter of the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University set baboons learning tasks (33) __________ (involve) a novel food and a familiar food hidden in a box. Some baboons were given the chance to watch another baboon who already knew how to solve the task, (34) __________ others had to learn for themselves. To wort how brave or anxious the baboons were, Dr. Carter presented them either with a novel food or a threat in the form of a model of a poisonous snake.
　　She found that personality had a major impact on learning. The (35) __________ (brave) baboons learnt, but the shy ones did not learn the tasgh they watched the baboon perform the task of finding the novel food just as long as the brave ones did. In effect, (36) __________ being made aware of what to do, they were still too shy to do what the experienced baboon did.
　　The same held true for anxious baboons (37) __________ (compare) with calm ones. The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing others while those who were relaxed did not, even though they spent more time watching.
　　This mismatch between collecting social information and using it (38) __________ (show) that personality plays a key role in social learning in animals, something (39) __________ has previously been ignored in studies on how animals learn to do things. The findings are significant because they suggest that animals may perform poorly in cognitive (认知的) tasks not because they aren't clever enough to solve them,but because they are too shy or nervous to use the social information.
　　The findings may impact how we understand the formation of culture in societies through social learning. If some individuals are unable to get information from others because they don't associate with the knowledgeable individuals,or they are too shy to use the information once they have it,information may not travel between all group members, (40) __________ (prevent) the formation of a culture based on social learning.
　　Section B
　　Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.                                
　　A.arrivals B.dramatically C.absent D.astonishing AB.embarrassing AC.remained
　　AD.mixed  BC.devotion   BD.granted CD.abandoned ABC.oppression
　　The decade of the 1920s was like no other period that Americans of the time could imagine. World War I--the”war to end all wars”--had just concluded, and the world seemed suddenly a much smaller place. The stock market grew at a(n) _____41_____ rate. Everyone seemed to have plenty of money to spend and plenty of leisure time in which to en