上海市奉贤区2017-2018学年下学期期末调研测试

高二英语试卷

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.

Bill Gates doesn't pretend he lives in an egalitarian（平等主义的） household. When it comes to 1 （raise）his three children, the billionaire readily admits his wife Melinda 2 (do)more than her share of the work raising the kids.\students last Thursday.

Gates said he and his wife have been quite careful about the model they've used to bring up their three children, 3 are now 15, 18, and 22 years old.

He says the couple followed a 1970s \model. The core idea of their philosophy is centered on the idea that exerting emotional control, essentially minimizing emotional reactions 4 shouting or scolding kids.

In addition to controlling hot-blooded parent tempers, the love and logic model also stresses the importance of not depending on rewards for kids, but instead demonstrating unconditional love and admiring kids for who they are, not 5 they do (or don't) achieve, like a poor test score or a bad grade.

The model is a bit like the Socratic method, 6 it pushes parents to focus on asking questions of their kids and getting

them 7 (think)about how to solve their own problems, instead of feeding them answers.

Gates says the \8 (turn) out to be quite different from the way he grew up, but he knew he wanted to do things differently with his own kids.

It wasn't the only way he set boundaries for his children while they were growing up. None of his kids owned a cell phone 9 they were 14 years old.

\anything, but not a lot of money 10 (shower)on them so they could go out and do nothing,\ Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. bursts B. appropriate C. beneficial D. necessarily E. apply F. densely

G. initial H. publicly references K. require

Reading as part of writing

One of the techniques of writing successfully in an academic environment is to be able to combine the important points of what you have read with your writing. To do this, you must have a clear picture of what you have read, and this in itself will___1__active and focused reading.With academic reading, it is necessary to focus constantly on what the author is saying. Yet many academic

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texts are ___2___written in unfamiliar ways,which make them much more difficult to manage than, for example, a novel or a magazine article.

Although sometimes there may be reasons why you need to skim-read an article or book, this is likely to be only to get the general idea of what is being said, as a way of deciding whether it is___3___reading material or not. In general, skim reading is not a particular useful strategy for a student, but you may 4 it in other contexts, for example, skimming through a newspaper article or surfing the web. Instead of skim-reading, you will be developing ways of concentrating on quite dense texts and making sense of them.

Even though you may only be reading for short 5 of time, it is likely that you will have to concentrate for more intensely on academic reading material than, for example, when reading for pleasure. You don’t 6 have to work in the library, but you will need to decide what type of location and atmosphere suits you best, and establish conditions that are 7 to effective study. The 8 difficulty that most students face is choosing their reading. The first thing to do is to consult the reading list you have been given for books and articles that seem relevant to your particular assignment. Doing a library search, by key words or subject, is also useful if the 9 on your reading list are already on loan from the library. Your tutor should also be able to advise you as to which are the most relevant 10 or websites.

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.

Different people may find that different learning methods work best for them. While some would 1 tutoring in order to get better grades, others