嘉定区2018届高三二模英语卷(原卷)

嘉定区2018届高考英语二模

II.Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Stephen Hawking:Science’s Brightest Star

His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his death at his home in Cambridge.

Hawking’s children,Lucy,Robert and Tim,said in a statement:“We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today.He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man(21)______work and legacy will live on for many years.”

For fellow scientists and loved ones,it was Hawking’s intuition and wicked sense of humor(22)______marked him out as much as the fierce intellect that,coupled with his illness,came to symbolize(23)______unbounded possibilities of the human mind.

Hawking was driven to Wagner,but not the bottle,when he(24)______(diagnose)with motor neurone disease in1963 at the age of21.Doctors expected him(25)______(live)for only two more years.But Hawking had a form of the disease that progressed more slowly than usual.He survived for more than half a century.

Hawking once estimated he worked only1,000hours during his three undergraduate years at Oxford.In his finals,he came close(26)______a first-and second-class degree.(27)______(convince)that he was seen as a difficult student,he told his examiners that if they gave him a first he would move to Cambridge to pursue his phD.Award a second and he threatened to stay.They opted for a first.

Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most.For Hawking,the early diagnosis of his terminal disease,and(28)______(witness)the death from leukemia of a boy he knew in hospital,aroused a fresh sense of purpose.“(29)______there was a cloud hanging over my future,I found,to my surprise,that I was enjoying life in the present more than before.I began to make progress with my research,”he once said.Taking up his career in earnest,he declared:“My goal is simple.It is a complete understanding of the universe,why it is(30)______it is and why it exists at all.”

Section B

A.analysis

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C.assures

D.pours

E.development

F.necessary

G.cloudy H.absent I.cultivate J.allow K.extremely

He is kindly

The other evening at a dancing club a young man introduced me to Mr.and Mrs.F.Scott Fitzgerald,and Scott seemed to have changed a lot from the first time I met him at Princeton,when he was an eager undergraduate trying his best to __31__himself into a great author.He is still trying hard to be a great author.He is at work now on a novel which his wife __32__me is far better than This Side of Paradise,but like most of our younger novelists he finds it__33__to produce a certain number of short stories to make the wheels go around.That The Vegetable,his play,did not receive a Manhattan presentation seems to have disappointed rather than discouraged him.He is still__34__light-hearted.

I have always considered him the most brilliant of our younger novelists.Not one of them can tough his style,nor the superb quality of his satire(讽刺).He has yet to put them in a novel with carefulness of conception and__35__of character. He can become almost any kind of writer that his peculiarly restless character will__36__.

Born in St.Paul,he attended Princeton,served in the Army,wrote his first novel in a training camp,achieved fame and fortune,married a Southern girl,has a child and lives in New York.At heart,he is one of the kindliest of the younger writers. Artistry means a great deal to F.Scott Fizgerald,and into his own best work he__37__great efforts.He demands this in the work of others,and when he does not find it he criticizes with passionate earnestness.I have known him,after reading a young fellow-novelist’s book,to take what must have been hours of time to write him a lengthy,careful__38__.

Just what he will write in the future remains__39__.With a firmer reputation than that of the other young people,he yet seems to me to have achieved rather less than Robert Nathan and rather more than Stephen Vincent Benet,Cyril Hume. His coming novel should mean a definite prediction for future work.It is to be hoped that from it will be__40__the seemingly unavoidable modern girls.

III.Reading Comprehension

Section A

Standards for Schools:Developing Organizational Accountability(绩效) Quality teaching depends on not just teacher’s knowledge and skills but on the environment in which they work. Schools need to offer a coherent curriculum focused on higher-order thinking and performance across subject areas and grades,time for teachers to work__41__with students to accomplish challenging goals,opportunities for teachers to plan with and learn from one another,and regular occasions to evaluate the outcomes of their__42__.

If schools are to become more responsible,they must,like other professional organizations,make evaluation and assessment part of their everyday lives.Just as hospitals have standing committees of staff that meet regularly to look at evaluation data and discuss the__43__of each aspect of their work–a practice reinforced by their accreditation(评定) requirements,-schools must have regular occasions to examine their practice and effectiveness.

As Richard Rothstein and colleagues describe in Grading Education:Getting Accountability Right,school-level accountability can be supported by school__44__,like those common in many other nations,in which trained experts evaluate schools by spending several days visiting classrooms,__45__samples of student work,and interviewing students about their understanding and their experiences,__46__looking at objective data such as test scores,graduation rates,and so on.In some cases,principals accompany the inspectors into classrooms and are asked for their own evaluations of the lessons.In this way,the inspectors are able to make__47__about the instructional and supervisory competence(能力)for principals. …… 此处隐藏：20387字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……