上海市长宁区2018届高三英语二模

2018届长宁区第二学期教学质量检测（二模）

高三英语试题

A Great Friendship

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked

together and started to further American Revolution and later to shape the official new plan of government,

____21____ (develop) a close friendship, which lasted for 50 years. There were ____22_____(share)

purposes and a common end on both sides. Four and a half months ____23___ he died, when he was ill and

worried about his family, Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison’s reply remind us

that friends are friends till death.

“The friendship which _____24_____ ( exist) between us for half a century, the harmony of our

political principles and pursuits have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period. It's

also been a great comfort to me ____25____ (believe) that you are engaged in vindicating(证实) to the

younger generation the course that we’ve pursued for preserving to them. If ever the earth has noticed a

system of administration conducted with ____26____single and keen eye to the general interest and

happiness of those committed to, it must be the system protected by truth, to ___27____ our lives have

been devoted. To myself, you have been a great supporter throughout life. Take care of me when dead and

be assured that I should leave with you my last

Affections.”

A week later, Madison replied.

“You cannot look back ____28____ the long period of our private friendship and political harmony

with more affecting recollections than I do. ____29____ they are a source of pleasure to you, it is the same

to me. We cannot be deprived(失去) of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good

and I have confidence ____30____ sufficient evidence will find its way to another generation to ensure,

after we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld while we are here.”

Section B.

A. analysis B. usually C. assures D. pours E. development F. necessary

G. cloudy H. absent I. cultivate J. allow K. extremely

He is kindly

The other evening at a dancing club a young man introduced me to Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald,

and Scott seemed to have changed a lot from the first time I met him at Princeton, when he was an eager

undergraduate trying his best to __31__ himself into a great author. He is still trying hard to be a great

author. He is at work now on a novel which his wife __32__ me is far better than This Side of Paradise, but

like most of our younger novelists he finds it __33__ to produce a certain number of short stories to make

the wheels go around. That The Vegetable, his play, did not receive a Manhattan presentation seems to have

disappointed rather than discouraged him. He is still __34__ light-hearted.

I have always considered him the most brilliant of our younger novelists. Not one of them can tough

his style, nor the superb quality of his satire(讽刺). He has yet to put them in a novel with carefulness of

conception and __35__ of character. He can become almost any kind of writer that his peculiarly restless

character will __36__.

Born in St. Paul, he attended Princeton, served in the Army, wrote his first novel in a training camp,

achieved fame and fortune, married a Southern girl, has a child and lives in New York. At heart, he is one of the kindliest of the younger writers. Artistry means a great deal to F. Scott Fizgerald, and into his own

best work he __37__ great efforts. He demands this in the work of others, and when he does not find it he

criticizes with passionate earnestness. I have known him, after reading a young fellow-novelist’s book, to

take what must have been hours of time to write him a lengthy, careful __38__.

Just what he will write in the future remains __39__. With a firmer reputation than that of the other

young people, he yet seems to me to have achieved rather less than Robert Nathan and rather more than

Stephen Vincent Benet, Cyril Hume. His coming novel should mean a definite prediction for future work. It

is to be hoped that from it will be __40__ the seemingly unavoidable modern girls.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Standards for Schools: Developing Organizational Accountability(绩效)

Quality teaching depends on not just teacher’s knowledge and skills but on the environment in which

they work. Schools need to offer a coherent curriculum focused on higher-order thinking and performance

across subject areas and grades, time for teachers to work __41__ with students to accomplish challenging

goals, opportunities for teachers to plan with and learn from one another, and regular occasions to evaluate

the outcomes of their __42__.

If schools are to become more responsible, they must, like other professional organizations, make

evaluation and assessment part of their everyday lives. Just as hospitals have standing committees of staff

that meet regularly to look at evaluation data and discuss the __43__ of each aspect of their work – a

practice reinforced by their accreditation(评定) requirements, - schools must have regular occasions to

examine their practice and effectiveness.

As Richard Rothstein and colleagues describe in Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right,

school-level accountability can be supported by school __44__, like those common in many other nations,

in which trained experts evaluate schools by spending several days visiting classrooms, __45__ samples of

student work, and interviewing students about their understanding and their experiences, __46__ looking at

objective data such as test scores, graduation rates, and so on. In some cases, principals accompany the

inspectors into classrooms and are asked for their own evaluations of the lessons. In this way, the inspectors

are able to make __47__ about the instructional and supervisory competence(能力) for principals. As

described earlier, inspectors may also play a role in ensuring the __48__ and comparability of school-based

assessments (as in England and Australia), as well as school’s internal assessment and evaluation process

(as in Hong Kong).

In most countries’ inspection systems, schools are rated on the quality of instruction and other services

and supports, as well as students’ __49__ and progress on a wide range of aspects, including and going

beyond academic subject areas, such as extra-curricular, personal and social __50__, the acquisition of

workplace skills and the __51__ to which students are encouraged to adopt safe practices and a __52__

lifestyle. Schools are rated as to whether they pass inspection, need modest improvements, or require

serious intervention(介入), and they receive extensive feedback on what the inspectors both saw and

__53__. Reports are publicly posted. Schools requiring intervention are then given more expert __54__ and

support, and are placed on a more frequent schedule of visits. Those that persistently fail to pass may be

placed under local government control and could be __55__ if they are not improved.

41. A. occasionally B. closely C. strictly D. peacefully