复旦附中2017-2018学年高三英语开学考
I. Listening Comprehension（听力部分略）
II. Grammar and V ocabulary
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.
The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator(发电机). The idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity-roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will ______21_____（give）meat tickets worth $ 36 _____22_____they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones ____23______ (attach) to the handlebars measuring how much power _____24_____ (generate) for the hotel.
The plan, a world-first, _____25______ (start) on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Fredericka Tomemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There ____26______be people who will cycle just _____27_____(get) a free meal, but generally I don’t think people will take advantage of our programme.”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each day, one of _____28______(high) percentages in the world , according to the websites visitcopenhagen.dk. US environmental website recently voted Copenhagen the world’s best city for cyclists. “____29___Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicycle would work well _______30___a symbol of the hotel’s green profile(形象).”
If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. sound
B. patching
C. series
D.career
E.list
F. inevitably
G. tormented H. seeping I. perishable J.settled K.sizable
An old friendship had grown cold. Where once there had been closeness, there was only strain. Now pride kept me from picking up the phone.
Then one day I dropped in another old friend, who’s had a long _____31_____as a prime minister and counselor. We were seated in his study------surrounded by maybe a thousand books and fell in deep conversation about everything from small computers to the ____32_____life of Beethoven.
The subject finally turned to friendship and how______33_____it seems to be these days. I mentioned my own experience as an example. ‘’Relationship are mysteries,” my friend said, “Some endure. Others fall apart.”
Gazing out his window to the wooded Vermont hills, he pointed toward a neighboring farm,” Used to be a la rge barn over there. ‘Next to a red-frame house were the footings of what had been a _____44____structure.
“It was solidly built, probably in the 1870s. But like so many of the places around here, it went down because people left for richer lands in the Midwest. No one took any of the barn. Its roof needed _____55____; rainwater got under the caves and dripped down the posts and beams.”
One day a high wind came along, and the whole barn began to tremble. “You could hear this cracking,first, like old sailing –ship timbers, and then a sharp ____36______of cracks and a tremendous roaring sound. Suddenly it was a heap of scrap lumber.”
“After the storm blew over, I went down and saw these beautiful, old oak timbers, solid as could be. I asked the fellow who owns the places what had happened. He said he figured the rainwater had _____37____in the pinholes, where wooden dowels held the joints together. Once those pins were rotted, there was nothing to link the giant beams together.”
We both gazed down the hill. Now all that was left of the barn was its cellar and its border of lilac shrubs.
My friend said that he had turned the incident over and over in his mind, and finally came to recognize some parallels between building a friendship: no matter how strong you are, how notable your attainments, you have enduring significance only in your relationship to others.
