上海市交通大学附属中学嘉定分校2017届高三11月周测英语试题
- 资源简介:
此资源为用户分享,在本站免费下载,只限于您用于个人教学研究。
约4040字。
交大附中(嘉定)周测卷
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)
Section A (10%)
Directions: After reading the passage 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 words; for the other blanse one word that best fits each blank.
He Zhigang’s eyes pleaded with the elevator dial as he stood waiting on the ground floor.
The red numbers wouldn’t budge. He glanced at his phone. The elevator. The phone. He pushed back his helmet, lifted the delivery bag of steamed buns and prepared to run up 20 flights of stairs. The elevator doors opened. He exhaled. The hungry office worker probably won’t remember who brought him lunch on a Friday afternoon, or (21)________ it was 11 minutes and 20 seconds before the allotted time. Maybe he’ll notice the colorful uniforms that flood Beijing streets and think of the beef noodle soup that came still too hot to eat, or the deliveryman who screeched past on an electric scooter and nearly toot his driver's side mirror.
These wai mai, or tat, drivers symbolize China’s transformation from a poor society (22)_______(dedicate) to manufacturing to a more affluent(23)________ driven by consumption.
Delivery drivers are “high risse they run red lights and drive(24)________ traffic. They meld (融入)into the chaos of the street ,where cars ma-turns in the middle of the road, bicycles ride on sidewalks and motorcycles play chicken with oncoming traffic. Eye contact acknowledge defeat. Electric scooters like He’s (25)_________(add) to the scramble(争抢)only.
The dinner crush(26)_________(start)by 6 p.m. when He walked into a west Beijing mall. He’d just passed a bag of noodles to the hand that(27)_________(emerge) from an apartment door. Now he needed to pick up a plate of sashimi, which he’d never eaten. Lines of Japanese, Korean and Yunnan restaurants occupied the mall’s top floor, (28)_________(beg) for customers who weren’t there. Instead, red-shirted wai mai drivers poured out of the elevator. Blue shirts came from the right. Yellow took the escalators. These drivers may not benefit from China’s economic rise as much as their customers, but they’ve secured a spot in a country (29)________ opportunity comes and goes quickly.
There was pride in He’s voice when he told the waiters: “I’m(30)_______deliveryman.” He picp the sushi, nodded at the other drivers, and got back on his bingry people were waiting.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. gain B. investing C. starve D. decreasing
E. concern F. survive G. senior H. lives
I. foreseeable J. edge nities
When it comes to cuteness, few animals can compete with the giant panda, a national treasure. And there is good news for the lovable creature: it has just been brought back from the ___31___ of extinction.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded the species forth “endangered” to “vulnerable” as the union published its new Red List on Sept 4. The downgrade came after IUCN data suggested that there were 1864 giant pandas in the wild in China in 2014.
Chinese conservation efforts are considered to have a played a big part in the animal’s comeback.
“The Chinese have done a great job in ___32___ in panda habitats, expanding and setting up new reserves,” Ginette Hemley, ___33___ vice-president for wildlife conservation at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), told the BBC.
The number of panda shows that when science, politics and local ___34___come together, we can save wildlife, “WWF Director General Marco Lambertini told CNN.
The giant panda, however, is not completely safe yet. Climate change and ___35___ amounts of bamboo could mean the ___36___ that have been made in the past few decades don’t last. The BBC said that fast climate change might destroy a third-of the giant pandas bamboo-filled homes in the next 80 years. Due to the warmer weather, bamboo might not even ___37___. Panda must eat 12kg to 38kg worth of bamboo each day to maintain their energy needs it map some 99 percent of their diet, without which they are likely to ___38___.
“it is a real ___39___, and this is the main problem that species are facing all over the world with regard to climate change,” Joe Walston, vice president of Conversation Field Programs for the Wildlife Conversation Society, told the Live Science website. “The most important thing we can do at the moment is to be able to grow that habitat and allow pandas to move across land.”
Therefore, conservation efforts will continue and the giant panda will still be “a conservation dependent species for the ___40___ future,” the IUCN’s report concluded.
Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension
Section A
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.
People volunteer for a wide variety of reasons, especially wanting to help others. But it's also OK to want some _41_ for yourself from volunteering.
Some people are _42_ with the notion that a
资源评论
共有 0位用户发表了评论 查看完整内容我要评价此资源