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2025~2026学年上海市控江中学高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

一、语法填空

Directions:Afterreadingthepassagebelow,fillintheblankstomakethepassagescoherentandgrammaticallycorrect.Fortheblankswithagivenword,fillineachblankwiththeproperformofthegivenword;fortheotherblanks,useonewordthatbestfitseachblank.

AreSummeringandMedalingAnnoying?

Whilemanyofusinthenorthernhemispheremayhavebeenawaysomewherenicerecently,notmanyofuswouldsaythatwe’ve‘summered’.“Summer”isclearlyanoun,or1(precisely),a“verbified”noun.

Waybackinourchildhood,wealllearnedthedifferencesbetweenanoun(person,placeorthing)andaverb(actionword).2suchatidydefinition,itwaseasytospotthedifference.Notsoinadulthood,whereweareexpectedto“foot”bills,“chair”committees,and“dialogue”withpoliticalopponents.Chancesareyoudon’tfeeluncomfortableatthesightofthose3(verb)nouns.

“TheverbingofnounsisasoldtheEnglishlanguage,”saysPatriciaO’Conner,aformereditorattheTheNewYorkTimesBookReview.Expertsestimatethat20percentofallEnglishverbswereoriginallynouns.Andthephenomenonseems4(snowball).Since1900,about40percentofallnewverbshavecomefromnouns.

5conversion(转化)isquiteuniversal,plentyofgrammariansobjecttothepractice,WilliamStrunkJr.andE.B.White,inTheElementsofStyle—theBiblefortheuseofAmericanEnglish—havethistosay:“Manynounslately6(press)intoserviceasverbs.Notallarebad,butallaresuspect.”TheChicagoManualofStyletakesasimilarstandpoint,7(advise)writerstouseverbsinthiswaycautiously,ifatall.

Soarethereanyrulesfroverbing?BenjaminDreyer,copychiefatRandomHouse,doesn’tofferarule,butsuggeststhatpeoplethintwiceabout“verbifying”anounifit’seasilyreplaceableby