【2017.12.06】2017-2018上海建平中学高三英语周考(11.21).docxVIP

建平中学高三英语周二练习（11.21）Grammar and Vocabulary（20%） Section A（10%）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 form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Kazuo Ishiguro, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has a number of strings to his bow, or rather his guitar.u The 62-year-old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great singer and songwriter, like last year’s winner, Bob Dylan.His friend and former publisher Robert McCrum recalls the young Ishiguro 21) (turn) up at the publishing house Faber and Faber with a bunch of his stories in one hand and a guitar over his shoulder. It was his stories22) earned him the great honor he received two weeks ago23) his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a British citizen who writes in English. He24) (educate) at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers.Ishiguro’s writing is highly restrained. His characters are often reluctant to express25) , except in a kind of code. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to 26) he is often compared. The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day, which later became a successful film.The central character of the book is a butler called Stevens. He is an extremely loyal servant to an English lord, and is a character who some might call repressed. He misses out on affection and love 27)he will not confess his feelings to anyone.The story is told by Stevens, and his style is as polite and unrevealing as his behavior. Ofcourse, we 28 read between the lines to uncover the “real” story, which isn’t quitethe one the butler is telling. Steve