上海师范大学外国语中学2021届高三上学期期中英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛.docVIP

第 PAGE 10 页 共 NUMPAGES 11 页 上海师范大学外国语中学2021届高三上学期期中英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛 姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________ 题型 选择题 填空题 简答题 xx题 xx题 xx题 总分 得分 评卷人 得分 第 1 题：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 proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Kazuo Ishiguro has a number of strings to his bow, or rather bis guitar ___1___62-year-old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great singer and songwriter. His friend and former publisher Robert McCrum recalls him ___2___(turn)up at the publishing house Faber and Faber with a bunch of his stories in one hand and e guitar over his shoulder. It was his stories ___3___earned him the great honor. As his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a Britain citizen who writes in English. He ___4___(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 express themselves, except in a kind of code. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to whom he is often compared. The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day, ___5___(adapt) later into a successful film with the same name. 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 ___6___some might call repressed(压抑的). He is not willing to confess his feelings to anyone ___7___he misses out on(错失) affection and love. The story is told by Stevens and his style is as polite and unrevealing as his behavior. Of course we ___8___read between the lines to uncover the “real” story, which isn’t quite the on