崇明县2016高三英语二模试卷及答案

崇明县2015届第二次高考模拟考试试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions:After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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)

Happiness Is an Attitude

The 92-year-old confident and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by e ight o’clock, with her hair fashionably combed and makeup perfectly applied, (25)_____ _____ she’s legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.

Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, (26)_____ (make) the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she (27)_____ (smile) sweetly when told her room was ready. As she got into the elevator (28)_____ her wheelchair, I provided a description of her tiny room.

“I love it,” she started with the enthusiasm of (29)_____ eight-year-old child having just been presented with a new dog.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room…just wait.”

“That ha s(30)_____ to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. (31)_____ I like my room or not d oesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged…it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body (32)_____ no longer work or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones working. Each day is a gift, and (33)_____ _____ _____ my eyes open, I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away…just for this time in my life.”

(B)

A sculptor has scaled new heights by building the world’s tallest toothpick (牙签) model.

Stanley Hayes Munro, 45, from Syracuse, New York, is a toothpick engineer, who(34)_____ (hook) by toothpick modelssince he built his first sculpture in school when creating a structure that (35)_____ support the weight of an egg.

Now, he has won the world record for the tallest toothpick structure with a sculpture of the BurjKahlifa, Dubai. For Stanley though, he has always been more concerned with the integrity(完整性) of his work. Stanley said: “I’ve never cared for counting toothpicks, wasting toothpicks, or the number of toothpicks (36)_____ (use) in any construction. But an engineering problem you’ve got to create a strong structure is a problem worth (37)_____(solve).” “I made my first toothpick structure in an art class when I was in Grade 5,” he continued. “The assignment was to build something 25 centimeters tall and to have it (38)_____ (hold) the weight of an egg. Mine held my desk and from that point I became interested in it.”

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