上海市进才中学2020-2021学年高三上英语10月阶段测试英语试题

2020-2021学年进才中学高三上英语10月月考 Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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. A few months ago as I wandered through my parents’ house, the same house I grew up in, I had a sudden, scary realization. When my parents bought the house, in 1982, they were only two years older than I am now. I tried to imagine ____1____ in two years, ready to settle down and buy the house I’d still be living in almost 30 years later. It seemed ridiculous. On a practical level there’s no way I could afford to buy a house anytime soon. More importantly, I wouldn’t want to. I’m not sure ____2____ I’ll be living in two years, or what kind of job I’ll have. And I don’t think I’ll be ready to settle down and stay in one place. So this is probably the generation gap ____3____ (divide) friends and me from our parents. When our parents were our age, they ____4____ (get) their education, chosen a career and were starting to settle into responsible adult lives. My friends and I--“Generation Y”--still aren’t sure what we want to do with our lives. ____5____ we end up doing, we want to make sure we’re happy doing it. We’d rather take risks first, try out different jobs, and move from one city to another ____6____ we find our favorite place. We’d rather spend our money on travel than put it in a savings account. This casual attitude toward responsibility has caused some critics to call my generation “arrogant”, “impatient”, and “overprotected”. Some of these complaints have a point. As children, we ____7____ (encourage) to succeed in school, but also to have fun. We grew up in a world full of technological innovation: cell phones, the Internet, instant messaging, and video games. Our parents looked to rise vertically--starting at the bottom