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上海市 2019-2020 年上海中学高三英语十月周练七（含答案） 2019-2020 学年上海中学高三英语十月周练 .Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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. The cancer ward at my local hospital has become an adopted home. I can maneuver the hallways to radiotherapy with my eyes __21__ ( glue) to a phone; I know which seat to occupy in the specialist waiting area to catch the oncologist ’ s eye as they emerge from their dens; and I remember that only the ground-floor cafeteria stocks the fruit –flavored water that quells the numbness in my mother ’ s mouth after a chemotherapy session. __22__ this tenuous （缥缈的， 脆弱的） acceptance of the new normal that sickness brings, what rarely feels familiar are the relationships with the people entrusted to alleviate your suffering -- __23__in charge of delivering the worst news of your life: the doctors. Which begs the question, how would you want the news of your mortality __24__ (deliver)? My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer twice in the span of three years. Like most women, she ’ s no stranger to pain: and growing up in the throes of political upheaval and later __25__(immigrate) to a 1/19 上海市 2019-2020 年上海中学高三英语十月周练七（含答案） foreign country with no language or cultural knowledge, she is powered by struggle and wears trauma like a second skin. But cancer was a new beast. So when the oncologist called us in and proceeded to dispassionately plow through the treatment plan -- surgery, debilitating side effects and odds of recurrence, my mother ’s fear was palpable. I tried my best to voice concerns: what will the drugs do to her body? Why was all this happening? Our question were met with defensive words __26__ __26__ to say, it ’ s cancer, haven ’ t you heard? He seemed to view her questions as direct challenges t