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2018年上海中学高三英语模拟练习（一）

Grammarand Vocabulary

Section A

Directions:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passagecoherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill ineach blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, useone word that best fits each blank.来源学#科#网Z#X#X#K

Today theStatue of Liberty is a beloved landmark. It 21.______(tower) above of theharbor of New York and is lovingly cared for by the National Park Service. Manythousands of visitors who visit Liberty Island each year might never suspectthat getting the statue 22._____(build) was a long slow struggle. More than acentury ago, it 23._____(be) the celebration of freedom and the commemorationof the friendship between America and France that inspired sculptor AugusteBartholdi and finally he went forward with designing the potential statue andpromoting the idea of building it. However, money was so big a problem 24._____was haunting the two governments from the beginning to the end.

Donations forthe building of the statue first began coming in throughout Fr ance in 1875.Numerous people gave donations. A copper company donated the copper sheets thatwould be used to fashion the skin of the statue. Various donations werehelpful, 25._____ the cost of the statue kept riding. 26.______(face) with ashortfall of money, the French-American Union held a lottery. Merchants inParis donated prizes, and tickets were sold. The lottery was a success, butmore money was still needed. The sculptor Bartholdi eventually sold miniatureversions of the statue, 27._____ the name of the buyer engraved on them.Finally, in July

1880 the French-American Union announced that enough money hadbeen raised to complete the building of the statue.

While theFrench had announced that the funds for the statues were in place in 1880, bylate 1882 the American donations, which would be needed to build the pedestal,were sadly lagging. The sculptor Bartholdi had travelled to America in 1871 topromote the idea of the statue. Despite Bartholdi’s efforts, the idea of thestatue was difficult 28._____(sell). some newspapers, most notably the New YorkTimes, often criticized the statue as folly, and vehementlyopposed 29.______(spend) any money on it. The newspaper publisher JosephPulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early1880s, took us the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic f unddrive, promising to print the name of each donor, 30.______ small the donation,Pulitzer’s audacious p lan worked, and millions of people around the countrybegan donating whatever they could.

In August1885, that final $100,000 for the statue;s pedestal had been raised.Construction work on the stone structure continued, and the next year theStatue of Liberty, which had arrived from France packed in crated, was erectedon top.

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Section B

Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can beused only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. alert

B.classify

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D. delicately

E. gentle

F. impose

B. labels H.moderation I.relieve J.signals K.simply来源学科网Z|X X K

Let's sayyou've decided you want to eat more healthfully. However, you don't have timeto carefully plan menus for meals or read food __31__ at the supermarket. Sinceyou really__32__ yourself to a healthier lifestyle, a little help would come inhandy, wouldn't it? This is where a "choice architect" canhelp__33__some of the burden of doing it all yourself. Choice architects arepeople who organize the contexts in which customers make decisions. Forexample, the person who decides the layout of your local supermarket——including which shelf the peanut buttergoes on, and how the oranges are piled up——is a choice architect. Governmentsdon't have to__34__healthier lifestyles through laws for example, smoking bans.Rather, if given an environment created by a choice architect——one that encourages us to choose what isbest——we will do the right things. In otherwords, there will be designs that gently push customers toward making healthierchoices, without removing freedom of choice. This idea combines freedom tochoose with__35__hints from choice architects, who aim to help people livelonger, healthier, and happier lives.

The Britishand Swedish governments have introduced a so-called "traffic lightsystem" to __36__foods as healthy or unhealthy. This means that customerscan see at a glance how much fat, sugar, and salt each product contains__37__bylooking at the lights on the package. A green light __38__that the amounts ofthe three nutrients are healthy; yellow indicates that the customer shouldbe__39__; and red means that the food is high in at least one of the threenutrients and should be eaten in __40__. The customer is given important healthinformation, but is still free to decide what to choose.

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