静安区高三英语质量检测卷

静安区2014年高三英语质量检测卷 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 of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. A Mother Teresa was bom in Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often 25write to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day. When she left school, she first went to Britain. Then a year later she went to India, where she began26trainto be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta, 27she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress. However, 28she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta. Later she was trained to become a nurse in Patna, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, 29came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of India. Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. Many photos 30 take of her, 31 she travels around the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979, she was given the Nobel Prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor. B On any collecting trip, obtaining the animals is, as a rule, the simplest part of the job. As soon as the local people discover that you are willing to buy live wild creatures, the stuff comes 32 pour in; ninety percent is, of course, the more common types, but they do bring 33 occasional rarity. If you want the really rare stuff, you generally have to go out and find it yourself. The chief difficulty you have when you have got a newly 34catch animal is not so much the shock it might be suffering, but the fact 35being caught forces it to exist close to a creature it regards as an enemy of the 36bad possible sort yourself. On many occasions an animal may take beautifully to being in a cage but 37get used to the idea of living with people is another matter. This is the difficulty you 38only deal with by patience and kindness. For month after month an animal may try to bite you every time you approach its cage, 39you despair of ever making a favorable impression on it. Then, one day, sometimes without any preliminary warning, it will trot forward and take food from your hand, or allow you to tickle it behind the ears. 40such moments you feel that all the waiting in the world was worthwhile. 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. A. changeB. repeatedlyC. dependentD. limitedE. flexibleF. proper G. respectH. conceptsI.