2017届上海高考英语模拟试卷

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2017届上海高三英语模拟试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: 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.

A friendly dog （21）（name）Bonnie, who also happens to be deaf, is being praised by her owner for helping

him catch a (22)(suspect) intruder in their home.

Dan Strasser said he heard Bonnie (23)(run) around the living room at about 6 a.m. Saturday, so he got out of bed

to see why she was so excited. He said Bonnie didn‘t bark or bite like a guard dog, but (24) _____ she behaved was

enough to alert him.

When Strasser walked into the living room, he caught the intruder trying to steal his computer. The man took off,

but (25)running out of the back door where he came in, he accidentally ran into the garage and was seized there.

Strasser grabbed his gun and held the intruder in the garage while his girlfriend called 911. Police showed up and

arrested the intruder,(26)they later identified as Thomas Lowell, who

(27)(accuse) in court Monday of burglary (入室行窃) and possession of drug. He is due back in court on Oct. 2nd.

Strasser said Lowell got in (28) the P.F. Productions back door, which he kept open at night (29) Bonnie could get

into the backyard. He plans to keep it (30) _____(lock) from now on.

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. unmanned B. escape C. usually D. strike E. dropping

F. blowing G. observed H. common I. specifically J. aimed K. involves

A tornado is a violently turning tube of air suspended from a thick cloud. Tornadoes form when winds (31)in

different directions meet in the cloud and begin to turn in circles.

Tornadoes have been (32)on every continent except Antarctica. Weather experts say they are most (33)in the

United States. Each year，the United States has more than one thousand tornadoes.

These storms can happen at any time of the year. But most happen from late winter to the middle of summer. There is a

second high season in November.

Tornadoes can (34)with little or no warning. Weather experts operate warning systems to tell people about possible

tornadoes. But the storms often move too fast for people to (35). Last year，tornadoes killed more than one hundred

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people in the United States.

Last month，American scientists began work on a project (36)at improving the ability to predict tornadoes. The project

is said to be the largest tornado study in history.It is called VORTEX2.

The project covers an area of nearly 1,500 kilometers in the central United States. This area from west Texas to

southwest Minnesota, is where the most violent tornadoes (37) happen.

VORTEX2 (38)a team of nearly one hundred people，many of them are scientists. They are using radars and other

equipment to learn more about how，why and where tornadoes form. The team is using forty cars and trucks to chase

tornadoes，(39)measuring instruments in their paths. In addition, (40)aircraft are collecting information from inside

storms.

The project costs more than eleven million dollars. Most of the money is coming from America‘s National Science

Foundation.

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.

We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream, that‘s life. It‘s a journey. Please follow these rules

to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!

41 positive through the cold season could be your best 42 against getting ill, new study findings suggest.

In an experiment that 43 healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a 44

sunny characteristic were less likely to 45 ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build

on evidence that a ―positive emotional style‖ can help 46 the common cold and other illnesses.

Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness increasing immune(免疫的) function and

subjective as in happy people being less 47 by a scratchy throat or runny nose.‖People with a positive emotional

style may have different immune 48 to the virus,‖ explained the lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie

Mellon University in Pittsburgh. ―And when they do get a cold, they may 49 their illness as being less severe.‖

Cohen and his colleagues had found in a 50 study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, but some

questions remained as to whether the emotional tendency itself had the effect.

For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality tendency,

health-consciousness and emotional ―style‖. Those who 51 be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as

having a positive emotional style, 52 those who were often unhappy, tense and unfriendly had a negative style. The

researchers gave them drops through their noses 53 either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six

days, the 54 reported on any aches, pains, sneezing they had, while the researchers collected 55 data, like daily

mucus(黏液) production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes(鼻部的不适),

happy people were less likely to develop a cold.

41. A．Living B．Staying C．Pulling D．Surviving