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2021年高考英语模拟考场仿真演练卷(上海)
第五模拟
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.
The Most Frightening Day of My Life
Several years ago, I was spending Christmas in Tenerife,in the Canary Islands. My brother Jose was working there and he couldn’t get any time off (21) ________ (come) home, so I spent the holiday with him. We decided to go up Mount Teide, a volcano in the centre of the island, and officially the second (22) ________ (large) mountain in Europe. This was the last day of my visit, so we hired a little car for the day - I couldn’t drive, but my brother (23) ________.
Jose and I set off in brilliant sunshine, but it got much colder and by the time we reached the crater(火山口)of Mount Teide it was snowing. All the restaurants, hotels and gas stations at the top of the volcano (24) ________ (close), and we had almost run out of petrol. I started getting really worried (25) ________ I had to catch the plane home that evening, and if I didn’t, I would have to pay for a new ticket. So Jose decide to do something dangerous - he switched off the engine of the car and freewheeled down the other side of the mountain.
He did this for several kilometres, round hairpin bends on dangerous, icy roads. Though (26) ________ (