上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2022-2023学年高二下学期5月月考英语试卷.pdfVIP

上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2022-2023学年高二

下学期5月月考英语试卷

一、用单词的适当形式完成短文

1.Directions:Afterreadingthepassagebelow,fillintheblankstomakethepassage

coherentandgrammaticallycorrect.Fortheblankswithagivenword,fillineachblank

withtheproperformofthegivenword;fortheotherblanks,useonewordthatbestfits

eachblank.

Englishspellingisridiculous.Sewandnewdon’trhyme.Kernelandcolonel1.

TheEnglishspellingsystem,ifyoucanevencallitasystem,isfullofthiskindofthing.

Mostpeople2(raise)withwhateverlanguagelearntoreadandwriteittoaveryhigh

levelofaccuracy.

Admittedly,foranon-nativespeaker,precisemasteryusuallyinvolvesagreatdealof

confusionandfrustration.PartoftheproblemisthatEnglishspellinglooksdeceptively

similartootherlanguagesthatusethesamealphabetbutinamuch3(consistent)

way.

Englishbeganitsreturnasawrittenlanguageinthe14thcentury.Overgenerations,

ithadcreptbackinamongthenobility,aswellastheclergy,4FrenchandLatin

werestillthelanguagesofeducatedandofficialpursuits.

Somespellingsgotentrenchedthisway,by5(print)overandoveragainin

widelydistributedtexts,veryearlyon.Thewordghost,whichhadbeenspelledand

pronouncedinOldEnglish,tookonthe‘gh’spelling6theinfluenceofFlemish-

trainedcompositors.ItwassuchacommonlyencounteredwordinEnglishtext,

particularlyinthephraseholyghostandothertranslationsofLatin,7itjustbeganto

lookmorecommon.

Otherspellings8(arise),andwerethencementedthroughthepowerexertedby

thevisualshapeofsimilarwords.Theexistenceof‘would’and‘should’,forexample,

broughtaboutthespellingof‘could’.Therewasnoexplicitintention9(make)them

lookthesame,butthefrequencyoftheirappearancenudged(推动)t