2017-2018年上海市格致中学高三第一学期期中考试英语试题（解析版）.docxVIP

格致中学二〇一七学年度第一学期期中考试 高三年级 II. Grammar and Vocabulary (共20分 每题1分) 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 form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. How should a Nobel laureate dress? asked Kazuo Ishiguro, who, 40 minutes earlier, had found out he ____21____(award) the Nobel Prize for Literature. To say the news was unexpected is an understatement. He literally couldnt believe it. ____22____, that was, his phone began to ring constantly, an orderly queue of TV crews started to form outside his front door (how do they all know where I live?), and his publishers dispatched a top team to his house as back-up. This was not fake news. This was delightful, surprising news. Maybe there were others who should ____23____(win) instead, he wondered. But that is the nature of prizes. They are a lottery. ____24____ chaos reigned around him, he was calm, assured and thoughtful, ____25____(talk) (after nipping upstairs to fetch a smart jacket for our interview) about his belief in the power of stories and ____26____ those that he wrote would often explore wasted lives and opportunities. Ive always had ____27____ faith that it should be possible, if you tell stories in a certain way, to transcend barriers of race, class and ethnicity. For me, he is one of the great living writers working in any language. All writers can tell stories. Ishiguro tells stories on ____28____ level. He places the reader in some sort of alternative reality --- which might be the future, it might be the present, it might be the past. They feel like places that are whole and real, ____29____ you dont know them. Theyre weird and not necessarily happy places. But theyre places that you can inhabit and relate to, and you become deeply involved with the characters. Thats the writers job --- he just?does it