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金山中学高二年级英语学科学习水平检查
(考试时间:120分钟 满分:150分)
2018年3月
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with one proper word or the proper form of the given word to make the passage coherent. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
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 anci