2021年高考英语模拟考场仿真演练卷(上海专用)04

绝密★启用前 2021年高考英语模拟考场仿真演练卷（上海） 第四模拟 I. Listening Comprehension Section A （第1-10题, 每题1分；第11-20题，每题1.5分；共25分） Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.（略） II. Grammar and Vocabulary （每题1分；共20分） 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 form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. A well-known landscape photographer Alexander Henderson was born in Scotland in 1831 and was the son of a successful merchant. He spent much of his childhood ___21___ (play) on the beach or fishing in the streams nearby. In 1849 he began a three-year apprenticeship to become an accountant. Although he never liked the prospect of a business career, he stayed with it ___22___ (please) his family. Learning photography in Montreal around the year 1857, Henderson quickly took ___23___ up as a serious amateur. Later, he became a personal friend and colleague of the Scottish Canadian photographer William Notman. ___24___ their friendship, their styles of photography were quite different. While Notman's landscapes ___25___ (note) for their bold realism, Henderson for the first 20 years of his career produced romantic images. ___26___ he published his first major collection of landscape photographs in 1865, he gained great fame for reflecting the romantic British landscape tradition in his works. The publication had limited circulation (only seven copies have ever been found), where the contents of each copy ___27___(vary) significantly and proved