上海市复旦大学附属中学2020-2021学年高二上学期开学考试英语试题

2020-2021学年复旦附中高二上英语开学考 Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary（20分） Section A Directions: Read the following passage. 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. Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’ “So, you saw the film?” Barry Jenkins is eager to ask the minute we are introduced. He gives good eye contact through those stylish thick-rimmed glasses – not the big-time, Oscar-winning writer-director speaking, but a nervous artist, anxious (21) _________ the new work he is starting to screen. I love it, I tell him. If Beale Street Could Talk may be only Jenkins’ third feature-length film, (22) _________ it has already been nominated for three Oscars (best adapted screenplay, best supporting actress, best score), just two years (23) _________ his Moonlight walked away with the Academy Award for best film. A passionate film about race and love, it’s an (24) _________ (add) pleasure to see black characters of such complexity on the big screen. Adapted from James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, Beale Street tells the story in which the personal experiences of a young black couple (25) _________ (interweave) with the big picture in 1970s Harlem. When Tish (KiKi Layne) becomes pregnant, they plan to marry – until her fiancé Fonny (Stephan James) is set up by a racist police officer for a rape he did not commit. The film explores the different reactions of their siblings (兄弟姐妹) and parents, led by Regina King in a standout performance as Tish’s mother, as they fight for Fonny’s freedom. Baldwin has been dead for 30 years, but his depiction of the fight against a country’s powerful prejudice is a sad reminder (26) _________ not enough has changed. Yet Jenkins turns a bleak story into a fascinating romance, as the young lovers strive (27) _________ (regard) as human beings. With its lin