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2017七宝高三3月测试试卷 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. In the countries of south and Southeast Asia the elephant has been an intimate part of the culture, economy and religion, and nowhere more so than in Thailand. Unlike its African cousin, the Asian elephant is easily domesticated (驯化). The rare so-called white elephants have actually lent the authority of kingship to its rulers and 21_______ the 1920s the national flag was a white elephant on a red background.To the early Western visitors the country's romantic name was ―Land of the White Elephant‖. Today, however, the story is very different. Out of work and out of land, the Thai elephant struggles 22______ survival in a nation that no longer needs it. The elephant has found itself more or less abandoned by previous owners who have moved on to a different economic world and a westernized society. And 23________ the elephant's problems began many years ago, now it rates a very low national priority. How24________ this reversal from national icon (圣像) to neglected animal came about is a tale of worsening environmental and the changing lives of the Thais 25_______. According to Richard Lair, Thailand’s experts on the Asian elephant and author of the report Gone Astray, at the turn of the century there 26________ well have beenas many as 100,000 domestic elephants in the country. In the north of Thailand alone it was estimated that more than 20,000 elephants were employed in transport, 1,000 of them alone on the road between the cities of Chiang Mai and Chiang Saen. This was at a time when 90 per cent of Thailand was still forest—a habitat (栖息地) 27________ not only supported the animals but also made them necessary to carry goods and people. Nothing ploughs through dense forest 28______(well) than a massive but sure-footed elephant. By 1950 the elephant population 29________(drop) to a still substantial 13,397, but today there are probably nomore than 3,800, with another 1,350 30________(wander) free in the national parks. But now, Thailand’s forest coversonly 20 per cent of the land. This deforestation (采伐森林) is the central point of the elephant's difficult situation, for it has effectively put the animals out of work. This century, as the road network grew, so the elephant's role as a beast of burden declined.

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.

Do you take part in office gossip? I don't like to think of myself as a gossip, but I have to admit I often do it. In my turbulent industry, I 31________________ my behavior--perhaps wrongly--by reasoning that gossip helps me get information and figure out what is going on. Amid a rise in office gossip, researchers are disagreeing over whether it is 32_____________ good or bad. Some defend it as a way of building 33_________ among people and sharing essential information. But others hold that office gossip can be savage and 34_____________, as the New York Times reports. At one company, PrintingForLess.com, which has a strict no-gossip policy, gossiping about colleagues can become a 35___________offense. In one case analyzed in a ___36_______ journal, middle school teachers' gossip about their principal became so poisonous that the principal retaliated, many teachers fled the school and students' test scores declined. In this case, gossip ___________ to "a form of warfare that brought everyone down." On the other hand, less malignant gossip that stops short of repeating lies or breaching confidences can serve as a source of understanding. Gossip helps us 38_____________ the motivations of other people, and enables those low on the food chain, in particular, to understand how power is used in their organizations, says this New York Times article. It is relaxing, it brings people together, and as a 39_______________ it beats gambling, drinking or doing drugs, this reasoning holds.

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