2023届上海市高考英语模拟试卷5.pdf

上海英语模拟试卷5 II. 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. Cats are actually surprisingly bad at catching rats If you are annoyed by rats, think twice about getting a cat. A cat might lead to the appearance of a rat-free home, but it turns out that the rats are still there. They are just keeping a low profile. are not the natural enemy ofof says Michael Parsons of FordhamFordham His team (21)_______ (study) a rat colony at a recycling plant in New York in the past few years. When cats moved into the plant last year, the researchers were disappointed, but decided to set up cameras (22) _______(monitor) the area. Over five months, they saw just three attempts by cats to catch rats, only two of (23) _______succeeded. Cats have good reasons to be cautious. The common rat has large teeth that can give a painful bite and carry lots of diseases. They also (24) _______(weigh) 340 grams on average 一compared with 25 grams for a mouse. Parsons thinks that only starving cats will attempt to catch rats, (25) _______ the rats are sick or injured. The two rats (26) _______(kill) during the teams study may have been weakened by eating poisoned food, he says. risk caused by cats,” says Parsons. His team found that when cats are in the area, rats spend much more time in (27) _______(hide) and move around cautiously. That means they are much less likely to be seen by people, which could explain (28)_______ most people wrongly think cats are good at killing rats. Some cat owners may (29)_______(conv