精品解析：上海市闵行区七宝中学2021-2022学年高三下学期3月摸底考试英语试卷

2021-2022学年上海市闵行区七宝中学高三下学期摸底考试 英语试卷 II. Grammar and vocabulary (20') Section A Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper from of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct. China kicked off the 2022 Winter Olympics with a visually sunning opening ceremony. ____1____ a lively, snowflake-themed show that emphasized youth and “ordinary people,” the games were declared officially open, prompting a burst of fireworks over the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in central Beijing. The final step was to deliver the ceremonial flame, a moment that often ____2____ (carry) symbolic weight based in part on who is selected for the task. Chinese officials chose two athletes, one of ____3____ was Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uyghur cross country skier from Xinjiang. The pair placed the flame inside a giant snowflake, a closely watched moment with symbolic weight in more ways than one. “This was a riposte(机智的回答) to President Joe Biden for skipping these Olympics and a message to the West: China____4____(not lecture to) on human rights, or on any other issue,” said Andy Browne, editorial director of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. With temperatures appropriately below freezing in the Chinese capital, the ceremony began with an opening sequence ____5____ (focus) on youth and spring. The Olympics started on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. China’s biggest holiday, also known as Spring Festival. The ceremony overall was a scaled-down affair compared with past years, amid drives by both the IOC and the Chinese government ____6____ (promote) sustainability and rein in excess. Though it began and ended with fireworks, there were only about 10 percent as many as the last time Beijing hosted the Olympics in 2008. Renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, who directed that ceremony