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2022-2023学年高三第一次模拟考试(上海卷)
英语
(考试时间:90分钟 试卷满分:115分)
注意事项:
1.本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
2.回答第Ⅰ卷时,选出每小题答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。写在本试卷上无效。
3.回答第Ⅱ卷时,将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
4.考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
I. 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.
Diane Van Deren
On February 19, 2009, Diane Van Deren was one of a dozen runners taking part in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, a 400-mile race across frozen tundra (苔原) in the middle of winter. Not a single woman ____1____(complete) it ever. With temperatures of 30 degrees below zero and only seven hours of daylight each day, it’s probably the ____2____(tough) race in the world. But, then, there is no woman like Diane Van Deren.
Twelve years earlier, Van Deren, a former____3____(profession) tennis player, had a serious epilepsy (癫痫).The operation was successful, but she noticed a strange side effect: she could run without stopping for hours.
At the start of the Arctic Ultra, icy winds frozen Van Deren’s water supplies, so she had ____4____to drink for the first hundred miles. She kept ____5____(go) on with frozen fruit and nut bars. On the eleventh day, the ice ____6____her feet cracked open and Van Deren fell up to her shoulders into a freezing river. She managed ____7____(climb) out but her soaked boots froze to her feet.
Yet somehow through it all, Van Deren remained positive, ____8____ was perhaps another curious byproduct of her operation. “I have a problem about____9____ is called short-term memory. I could be out running for two weeks, but _____10_____someone told me “it was day one of a race” She jokes, “I’d say, Great, let’s get started!”
On February 26, 2009, exactly twelve years after her surgery, Va