2019-2020年高三上英语期中试卷（含答案）.docxVIP

高三英语第一学期期中试卷 英语试卷 （考试时间120 分钟；满分 140 分） Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blacks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct .For the blanks with a given word ,fill in each black with the paper form of the given word: for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. In 1915,Maurice E. McLoughlin, a well-known tennis player, published an instructional autobiography ____21____ (call) Tennis as I Played It. Two years earlier, McLoughlin had become the first American finalist at the Wimbledon tournament in England and tennis fans were excited to uncover the secrets of his success. Anticipation for McLoughlin’s story grew even more in 1914.Winning a number of major tournaments that year, he ____22____ (declare) the Number 1 tennis player in the world. When Tennis as I Play It ____23____ come out in 1915,no one had any reason to suspect that it might have been written by ____24____ else. However, the author of Tennis as I Play was not McLoughlin at all, but the as-yet unknown novelist Sinclair, his ghostwriter. Why, then, is Tennis as I Play It considered the tennis player’s book? A ghostwriter is an author who writes a text that is officially credited to another author, and the history of such practices is ____25____ (long) than we might expect. In other words, Tennis as I Play It was not the first famous ghostwritten book, and it won’t be the last. Ghostwriter can happen for a number of reasons, and ____26____ its merits are debatable, it remains an acceptable practice in the publishing world. Some in the industry suggest that as many as half of non-fiction books are written with help form ghostwriter. Today, ghostwriting ____27____ take a number of different forms. It is perhaps most prominent in the autobiographies and memories of celebrities. Is the practice restricted ____28____ celebrity autobiographies and memories? No, ghostwriting is equally prominent in lesser-known spheres as well. Politica