2018届上海市各大名校高三英语试题汇编：语法填空
successful companies have a defining moment (27)________ profits are skyrocketing, and business (28)________not be better. That is precisely the time to look closely at your customer service. That you are earning more money than ever before (29)________ (indicate) your product is terrific, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the same about your customer service. It is the ideal time to examine your reputation and expand the success you earning from your product to include customer service.
Every business wants to be known for its customer service. Although even a slow but steady giant such as Radio Shack Corporation will often come up with a hot product, it is its customer service (30)_________ keeps it in business year after year.
Keys: 21. how 22.both 23.desired 24.even when 25. performing
26. without 27. when 28.could 29.indicates 30.that
2018届上海市交大附中高三下学期开学考试题 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.
Talking with-Not Just to-Kids Powers How They Learn Language
Children from the poorer begin life not only with material disadvantages but cognitive ones. Decades of research (21)_______ (confirm) this, including a famous 1995 finding by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley: By age four children raised in poverty have heard 30 million fewer words, on average, than their peers from wealthier families. That gap has been linked to shakier language skills at the start of school, (22)________, in turn, predicts weaker academic performance.
But the sheer quantity of words a toddler hears is not the most significant influence on language acquisition. Growing evidence has led researchers to conclude quality matters more than quantity, and (23)_________(valuable) quality seems to be back-and-forth communication—what researchers call conversational turns.
A paper (24)________ last week in Psychological Science brings a new kind of support to
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2018届上海市各大名校高三英语试题汇编：语法填空
this idea, offering the first evidence that these exchanges play a vital role in the development of Broca’s area, the brain region most closely associated with producing speech. Further, the amount of conversational turns a child experiences daily outweighs socioeconomic status in predicting (25)__________ activity in Broca’s area and the child’s language skills.
The researchers confirmed the classic 1995 finding that, overall, kids from wealthier families hear more words. And small (26)_______ their sample was, they even confirmed the 30-million-word gap between the poorest and richest children. But they found that “by far the biggest driver for brain development was not the number of words spoken (27)_______ the conversations,” Gabrieli says.
The researchers calculated that a child’s verbal ability score increased (28)______ one point for every additional 11 conversational exchanges per hour.
The study is a “very, very important” addition (29)_________ a growing body of work, says developmental psychologist Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, director of the Infant Language Laboratory at Temple University. “We have known for quite a while that conversational turns—or (30)________in my work we call conversational duets—are very important for building a foundation for language and maybe for learning generally. What hadn’t been done is to link it where we knew it had to be linked—to changes in the brain.”
Keys: 21. have confirmed 22. which 23. the most valuable 24. published 25. both 26. as/though 27. but 28. by 29. to 30. what
2018届上海市上外附中高三上学期期中试题 II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A
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 with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
American Indians
When you think of a typical American, whom do you picture? A pretty blond white American like Taylor Swift? Or a handsome black American like President Barack Obama or basketball star Kobe Bryant? In fact, there was a time when the average American looked like (21)_______ of
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2018届上海市各大名校高三英语试题汇编：语法填空
these people.
Back in the year 1500, the average American was a brown-skinned hunter-gatherer who probably rode a horse and wore clothing (22)________ (make) from animal skins. Today, these people－who tend (23)________ (identify) themselves based on their individual tribes such as Iriquos, Apache and Navajo－are broadly referred to as “Native Americans”, “American Indians” or simply ” Indians”.
You (24)________say you’ve never even heard of American Indians. That’s (25)______ there aren’t very many left. When the European settlement of North America began, there were fierce conflicts (26)_________ the settlers from overseas and these native peoples. After the Revolutionary War, conflicts with natives continued as the states were created (27)_______ would later make up the US. American Indians (28)________ (treat) were treated as a military “enemy” until 1924, when the few Indians still alive at that point were granted US citizenship.
(29)________ the story of the American Indians has been a sad one, these peoples’ legacies (遗产) are still felt every day in the US. There are many US geographical names (30)_______ (come) from Indian languages, such as Ohio, Topeka, Kansas, and the Potomac River. At the same time, there are numerous successful academics and other important US leaders who are descended from Indians.
Keys: 21. none 22. made 23. to identify 24. may 25. because
26. between 27. that 28. were treated 29. While 30. coming
2018届上海市复旦附中高三英语教学质量调研试题 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.
Remember that doll you had as a kid—the one (21)_______ eyes open when it is upright and close when it’s laid down? Or maybe you were the kid that went around popping limbs off Barbies and teddy bears.
Either way, it turns out that these broken toys need not worry, because Sydney’s Original
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