1、2018 届上海市松江二中高三英语期中考试卷（word 版）（考试时间 120 分钟 满分 150 分）I. Listening Comprehension 略II. Grammar and Vocabulary (30%)Section A (15%)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
2、 with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Two strong earthquakes, 12 days apart, 1 (shake) Mexico this month. They caused widespread damage in the developing country, sending frightened people into the streets and killing hundreds of peopl
3、e who were unable to escape the destruction. Just before midnight on September 7. a magnitude-8.1 earthquake 2 (powerful) to hit Mexico in a century rocked the southern part of the country. Then, last Tuesday, a magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck about 160 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, the capit
4、al. Its not common to hear of such strong earthquakes 3 (happen) so close to one another. “Usually, you don t have large ones in the same general region right away,” says John Bellini, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. “However in highly seismically （跟地震有关地）active regions of the world, it
5、 can happen.” Mexico qualifies as highly active. The country sits at the boundary three pieces of Earths crust（地壳）that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle（拼版玩具） 4 (call) tectonic plates.（板块）As one plate slides slowly 5 another, stress builds up over time. At some point, the stress becomes so great tha
6、t all the energy released in the form of an earthquake. Mexico City is especially likely 6 (suffer) severe damage. Thats because it sits on _7_ ancient lakebed. When earthquake shockwaves pass through it, it shakes up and down, from side to side, just like jello（果冻）. Some 8 wonder whether it was the
7、 September 7 quake that caused the one that happened last week. But the epicenters（集中）of the-two quakes are about 645 kilometers apart, _9_ its unusual for a strong aftershock to occur this long after a major quake. Therefore, Bellini thinks its unlikely the two are released.Theres another coinciden
8、ce. Last weeks earthquake 10 (fall) on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico quake that left roughly 10,000 people dead. But Bellini suggests people not read into the timing too much. Theres no such thing as an earthquake season. Earthquakes can happen at any time.【答案】have shaken； the most powerfu
9、l；happening；called；under ；to suffer；an；may；and；fell.【分析】1. 考查谓语。根据文章时态判断此处为现在完成时，且主语是复数，所以填 have shaken2. 考查形容词的比较级,两次地震之间进行比较。3. 考查非谓语之现在分词做定语的情况，4. 考查非谓语之过去分词做定语的情况，被动，故填 called5. 考查介词。再根据句意，填 under6. 考查非谓语,be likely to do7. 考查冠词。泛指，表一类事物,故填 an8. 考查情态动词，此空位于主语和谓语间，再根据句意，填情态动词 may9. 考查连词。本句是对上句进行解释
10、，并不是第一次地震导致了第二次地震，空格前后两句都是其原因，为并列关系，因此填并列连词 and10. 考查谓语。根据 Last week 断此处为一般过去时，故填 fellSection B (15%)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. well-received B. interact C. stage D. pers
11、onally E. closeF. main G. closely H. historical I. indicates J. debuted K. historyWorld-famous Peking opera Farewell My Concubine （霸王别姬 ） 1 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the worlds largest and finest art museums, on September 15. Performers took to the 2 in the first of their ten perform
12、ances over a two-week period in New York.“this is a very moving 3 story. It is not only a piece of war history but also a love story about the farewell between a hero and his concubine. In China, everybody likes this drama,” said Shang Changrong (尚长荣) ，who plays the role of Xiang Yu, the 4 male char
13、acter.The opera was staged in what the Met says is the first classical Chinese garden built outside of China for an audience of 60 people. The audience could feel 5 in the scene. They could even 6 with the performers. Opera star Shi Yihong (史依弘), who plays the female lead Concubine Yu, said it was t
14、he first time they had performed so 7 to an audience.The performance was 8 by the audience. “I had seen Chen Kaiges film Farewell My Concubine, so I always wanted to see this performance,” said Stephen Harvey, a 9 scholar, after the performance. “I love it. Its fantastic, and the music is beautiful.
15、”The Met chose the opera as a companion piece to its exhibition “Age of Empires,” which is about the Qin Dynasty. Mike Hearn, the Chairman of Asian Art at the Met, said that more than 350,000 people had visited it. It 10 that there is a strong appetite for Asian culture in New York.【答案】JCHFD BEAKI【词
16、义辨析】单词 词性 getting a loan meant winning the good graces of the neighborhood banker. Even big corporations depended on a few big banks or investment houses.John Reed or Hugh McColl - the heads of Citicorp and Nations Bank - are not household names. In 1990, J. P. Morgan was. As head of J. P. Morgan &
17、Co., he controlled through stock and positions on corporate boards - a third of U.S. railroads and 70 percent or the steel industry. A railroad executive once cheerfully confessed his dependence on Morgans capital: “If Mr. Morgan were to order me tomorrow to China or Siberia. . . I would go.“No bankers today inspire such awe or fear. Time, technology and government restrictions
