2014年黄浦区高三英语二模试卷-学生版.docx

2013学年第二学期黄浦区高三英语质量调研试卷2014.4.9II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: 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 form of the given word; for the other blanks,?use one word that best fits each blank.( A )Since my retirement from teaching music in 2001, I have spent a good deal of time 25.______ (paint) as an artist. I actually began drawing in the summer of 1995 when my father died, so perhaps I was trying to recover 26.______ the loss of my father, or maybe it was just paintings 27.______ brought back memories of him. In any case, I drew pen and ink animals and landscape much influenced by Krenkel and St. John for five years.For some strange reason, I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors again, but 28.______ ______ ______ I walked out of the school door for the last time I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth, who quickly became my favorite artist. I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be 29._____ (close) to how I thought good watercolors should look. So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting. However, watercolors remained my first choice, and I think I did my best work there, 30.______ (display) my paintings at a number of art shows.IT is wonderful to have some time doing 31.______ I want to do. As Confucious once said, “At seventy I can follow my heart’s desire.”( B )In the last decade, research 32.______ (show) that resistance exercise can help numerous disease states, including depression. You can improve your overall health just by watching your weight and taking walks in the neighborhood. But 33.______ you want to improve your fitness — look better, maximize health, have more energy, prevent injuries — you need to do more.In recent years, emphasis has shifted to a type of