上海市同济大学第一附属中学2021-2022学年高二下学期线上期中测试英语Word版含解析.docxVIP

同济大学第一附属中学 2021-2022 学年第二学期期中考试 英语试题 I. Grammar and Vocabulary (45 分) Section A (15 分) Directions: After reading the passage 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. Have you ever seen an old movie called Three Coins in the Fountain? It is about three young American women ____1____ (search) for permanent romance in Rome and they all find it. Far-fetched Hollywood? Well, from the world history point of view, romance did, in fact, set down its roots in Rome. The word romance evolved in Latin from Roma to Romanicus of the Roman language, to the Old French romanz escrive, ____2____ means “to write in a Romance language,” and on to the English romance. The Romance languages ____3____ (compose) of seven groups of languages that all have Latin ____4____ their basis. These languages include French. Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The common people in ancient Rome spoke ____5____ is referred to as Vulgar Latin, an informal speech, as opposed to the classical Latin of the more educated. Most language experts agree that Vulgar Latin is the chief source of the Romance languages. Medieval Romances were tales ____6____ (write) primary in French verse about brave heroes. The notion of having a romance with another person is thought ____7____ (develop) sometime during the Middle Ages. In the late 18th century and on through the 19th, a romance was not a love story ____8____ a work of prose fiction that contained far-fetched, mysterious events. Romances of this period ____9____ (include) English Gothic novels like The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. What exactly is a twentieth-century romance? Does it have any relationship with the lively, popular novels written today, with their fantastic plots of love affairs? Or did the playwright Oscar Wilde have it right in The Picture of Doria