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2021届静安区高考英语二模Ⅱ.Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper from of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Scientists confirmed Monday that a skeleton（骷髅）found under a car-park in the English city of Leicester was that of King Richard III, in a weird end to a 500-year-old mystery. DNA from the bones (21) (match) that of existing generation of the king’s sister and the skeleton had the battle injuries consistent (22) contemporary accounts. The remains of the king, viewed as one of English history’s worst guys, will be reburied later in the local church. The discovery has caused huge excitement among historians, as it provides firm evidence about a ruler whose life (23) (shadow), in spite of official records, by rumours（传言） concerning his cold blood since his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. According to historical accounts, Richard’s body was transported naked and bloody on the back of a pack horse to Leicester before being buried in an unmarked grave at Grey-friars, a Franciscan temple in the central English city. Then the crown passed to the Tudor rulers who painted Richard as an ugly bad guy who stopped at (24) in his pursuit of power, even murdering his two young nephews, the so-called Princes in the Tower, (25) (secure) the power. The hunt for his body began years ago when archaeologists（考古学家）started to dig beneath the municipal car-park (26) the king was supposedly buried. They family found the skeleton. On Monday archaeologists said the skeleton confirmed that the king had severe injury in the backbone. It may have been painful and caused his right shoulder to appear higher than his left, but there was n evidence of the deformed arm (27) (mention) in Shakespeare’s “Richard III”. Historians now hope to clear some of the my