上海市长宁区届高三下学期教学质量检测二模英语试题.docx

1、上海市长宁区届高三下学期教学质量检测二模英语试题2018届长宁区第二学期教学质量检测（二模）高三英语试题A Great FriendshipThomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked together and started to further American Revolution and later to shape the official new plan of government, _21_ (develop) a close frie

2、ndship, which lasted for 50 years. There were _22_(share) purposes and a common end on both sides. Four and a half months _23_ he died, when he was ill and worried about his family, Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madisons reply remind us that friends are friends till death.“Th

3、e friendship which _24_ ( exist) between us for half a century, the harmony of our political principles and pursuits have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period. Its also been a great comfort to me _25_ (believe) that you are engaged in vindicating(证实) to the younger gener

4、ation the course that weve pursued for preserving to them. If ever the earth has noticed a system of administration conducted with _26_single and keen eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to, it must be the system protected by truth, to _27_ our lives have been devoted. To my

5、self, you have been a great supporter throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be assured that I should leave with you my lastAffections.”A week later, Madison replied.“You cannot look back _28_ the long period of our private friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections t

6、han I do. _29_ they are a source of pleasure to you, it is the same to me. We cannot be deprived(失去) of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good and I have confidence _30_ sufficient evidence will find its way to another generation to ensure, after we are gone, whatever of jus

7、tice may be withheld while we are here.” Section B.A. analysis B. usually C. assures D. pours E. development F. necessaryG. cloudy H. absent I. cultivate J. allow K. extremelyHe is kindly The other evening at a dancing club a young man introduced me to Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Scott see

8、med to have changed a lot from the first time I met him at Princeton, when he was an eager undergraduate trying his best to _31_ himself into a great author. He is still trying hard to be a great author. He is at work now on a novel which his wife _32_ me is far better than This Side of Paradise, bu

9、t like most of our younger novelists he finds it _33_ to produce a certain number of short stories to make the wheels go around. That The Vegetable, his play, did not receive a Manhattan presentation seems to have disappointed rather than discouraged him. He is still _34_ light-hearted. I have alway

10、s considered him the most brilliant of our younger novelists. Not one of them can tough his style, nor the superb quality of his satire(讽刺). He has yet to put them in a novel with carefulness of conception and _35_ of character. He can become almost any kind of writer that his peculiarly restless ch

11、aracter will _36_. Born in St. Paul, he attended Princeton, served in the Army, wrote his first novel in a training camp, achieved fame and fortune, married a Southern girl, has a child and lives in New York. At heart, he is one of the kindliest of the younger writers. Artistry means a great deal to

12、 F. Scott Fizgerald, and into his own best work he _37_ great efforts. He demands this in the work of others, and when he does not find it he criticizes with passionate earnestness. I have known him, after reading a young fellow-novelists book, to take what must have been hours of time to write him

13、a lengthy, careful _38_. Just what he will write in the future remains _39_. With a firmer reputation than that of the other young people, he yet seems to me to have achieved rather less than Robert Nathan and rather more than Stephen Vincent Benet, Cyril Hume. His coming novel should mean a definit

14、e prediction for future work. It is to be hoped that from it will be _40_ the seemingly unavoidable modern girls.III. Reading ComprehensionSection AStandards for Schools: Developing Organizational Accountability(绩效) Quality teaching depends on not just teachers knowledge and skills but on the enviro

15、nment in which they work. Schools need to offer a coherent curriculum focused on higher-order thinking and performance across subject areas and grades, time for teachers to work _41_ with students to accomplish challenging goals, opportunities for teachers to plan with and learn from one another, an

16、d regular occasions to evaluate the outcomes of their _42_. If schools are to become more responsible, they must, like other professional organizations, make evaluation and assessment part of their everyday lives. Just as hospitals have standing committees of staff that meet regularly to look at evaluation data and discuss the _43_ of each aspect of their work