上海市六校届高三月联考英语试题

2017届高三第二次六校联考 调研试卷 英语

Ⅱ.Grammar and Vocabulary (第二大题每小题1分， 共20分)

Section A

Direction: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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 blanks , use one word that best fits each blank.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, computer sales manager Michael Hingson , who is

blind , went early to his office on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center to

prepare for a meeting . As Michael worked , his guide dog , a Labrador retriever _______(name)

Roselle, dozed by his feet.

At 8:46 a.m, a tremendous boom rocked the building , eliciting screams throughout the

floor . Michael grabbed Roselle , trusting that the dog _______(lead) out of the danger, and they

navigated their way to a stairwell.

“Forward,” Machael instructed , and they descended the first of 1,463 steps to the

lobby._______ about ten floors , the stairwell grew crowded and hot ,and the fumes from jet fuel

had made it hard to breathe. When a woman became crazy , yelling that they wouldn’t make it.

Roselle accompanied the woman ________she finally petted the dog , calmed herself , and kept

walking down the stairs.

Around the 30th floor, firefighters started passing Michael on their way up . Each one stopped

to offer him assistance. He declined but let Roselle be petted, _____ (provide) many of the

firefighters with _______ would be their last experience of unconditional love.

After about 45 minutes ,Michael and Roselle reached _____ booby ,and 15 minutes

later ,they emerged outside to a scene of chaos . Suddenly the police yelled for everyone to run as

the South Tower began to collapse.

Michael kept a tight grip on Roselle’s harness , using voice and hand commands, as they ran to a

street opposite the crumbling tower . The street bounced like a trampoline , and “a deafening roar”

like a hellish freight train filled the air. Hours later , Michael andRoselle made it home safely .

At that moment , they thought they were _______(lucky ) in the world.

In 2004, Roselle developed a blood disorder , ______ prevented her from guiding and

touring . She died in 2011.

“ I ‘ve had many other dogs ,” Mechael wrote , “but there is only one Roselle.”

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used

only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. catalog B. barely C. free D. self-consciousness E. prospects

F. compulsory G. dropped H. assigned I. certified J. totally K. transfer

For thousands of commuting students, Chabot was our Columbia, Annapolis, even our

Sorbonne, offering courses in physics, stenography, auto mechanics, ___31___ public accounting,

foreign languages, journalism—name the art or science, the subject or trade, and it was probably

in the ___32___. The college had a nursing program that churned out graduates, sports teams that funneled athletes to big-time programs, and parking for a few thousand cars—all ___33___, but

for the effort and the cost of used textbooks.

“By some fluke of the punch-card computer era, I made Chabot’s dean’s list taking classes I

loved (oral interpretation), classes I hesitated (health, a requirement), classes I aced, and classes I

___37___ after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math). I nearly failed zoology, killing

my fruit flies by neglect, but got lucky in an English course, “The College Reading Experience.”

The books of Carlos Castaneda were incomprehensible to me (and still are), but my___38___

presentation on the analytic process called structural dynamics was hailed as clear and concise,

though I did nothing more than embellish the definition I had looked up in the dictionary.

A public-speaking class was unforgettable for a couple of reasons. First, the assignments

forced us to get over our ___39___. Second, another student was a stewardess, as flight attendants

called themselves in the 70’s. She was studying communications and was gorgeous. She lived not

far from me, and when my VW threw a rod and was in the shop for a week, she offered me a lift

to class. I rode shotgun that Monday-Wednesday-Friday, ___40___ tongue-tied. Communicating

with her one-on-one was the antithesis of public speaking.

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.

When buying a smart phone, I keep my criteria simple. If the device can handle WeChat,