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　　2016年11月10日八校联考试卷
　　II. Grammar and Vocabulary
　　Section A
　　Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with one proper word or the proper form of the given word to make the passage coherent. Mare that your answers are grammatically correct.
　　Have you ever seen an old movie called Three Coins in the Fountain? It is about three young American women (21)             (search) for permanent romance in Rome and they all find it. Far-fetched Hollywood? Well, from the world history point of view, romance did, in fact, set down its roots in Rome.
　　The word romance evolved in Latin from Roma to Romanicus of the Roman language, to the Old French romanz escrive, (22)          means “to write in a Romance language,” and on to the English romance.
　　The Romance languages (23)         (compose) of seven groups of languages that all have Latin (24)          their basis. These languages include French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The common people in ancient Rome spoke (25)        is referred to as Vulgar Latin, an informal speech, as opposed to the classical Latin of the more educated. Most language experts agree that Vulgar Latin is the chief source of the Romance languages.
　　Medieval Romances were tales (26)          (write) primary in French verse about brave heroes. The notion of having a romance with another person is thought (27)        (develop) sometime during the Middle Ages. In the late 8th century and on through the 19th, a romance was not a love story (28)          a work of prose fiction that contained far-fetched, mysterious events. Romances of this period (29)         (include) English Gothic novels like The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
　　What exactly is a twentieth-century romance? Does it have any relationship with the lively, popular novels written today, with their fantastic plots of love affairs? Or did the playwright Oscar Wilde have it right in The Picture of Dorian Gray:”When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving (30)           and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
　　Section B
　　Directions: complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can nly be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
　　A. astonishingly     B. surrounding     C. collapse    D. unnoticed    E. interrupted  
　　F. previously      G. congratulate    H. predictions    I. potential    J. producing  
　　K. properties
　　In the wake of the historic announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves on February 11, 2016 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), British physicist and black hole theorist Stephen Hawking was quick to   31     the US-led collaboration, sharing his excitement for the historic news.
　　According to Hawking, these results confirm several very important    32    of Einstein’s theory of general relativity and it also confirms the existence of gravitational waves directly.
　　As is becoming clear, the direct detection of these ripples in space time not only confirms Einstein’s famous theory of general theory but it also opens our eyes to a(n)   33   “darniverse. Astronomers employ the electromagnetic spectrum (电磁光谱) to study the universe, but objects that do not radiate in the electromagnetic spectrum will go    34    . But now we know how to detect gravitational waves, which can help us detect and study some of the most energetic cosmic phenomena.
　　“Gravitational waves provide a completely new way of looking at the universe and the ability to detect them has the    35     to revolutionize astronomy” said Hawking. “The discovery is the first observation of black holes merging. The observed    36     of this system are consistent with predictions about black holes that I made in 1970 in Cambridge.”
　　However, this discovery also presents a puzzle for astrophysicists. The mass of each of the black holes are larger than expected for those formed by the gravitational    37     of a star---so how did both of these black holes become so massive?
　　This question touches on one of the biggest mysterious    38     black hole evolution. Currently, astronomers are having a hard time understanding how black holes grow to be so massive. On the one end of the scale, there are “stellar mass(恒星质量)” black holes that form immediately after a massive star explodes,     39     an extremely bright light. And we also have an abundance of evidence for the existence of the super-massive that live in the centers of most galaxies. There should be evidence of black holes of all sizes, but “intermediate mass” black holes and black holes of a few dozen solar masses are    40    rare, throwing some black holes evolution theories into doubt.
　　One thing is clear, however. This is the first time that we’ve acquired direct evidence of a black hole merger. So it’s good to know we’re on the right track.
　　III. Reading Comprehension
　　Section A (15*1=15分)
　　Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
　　Cowboy or spaceman? A dilemma for a