【期末备考】2023年上海市高二下期末复习英语试卷-A卷（原题版+解析版）

【期末备考】2023年上海市高二下期末复习英语试卷 -A卷（解析版） 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、语法填空 （2022春·上海·高二上海市行知中学校考期末）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. Boyan Slat, a Dutch inventor is cleaning the world’s most polluted rivers in an effort to save the oceans. He has made it his mission___1___(remove) plastic from the oceans. His organization, The Ocean Cleanup, has successfully started to clean the pollution that has been circling in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But millions more tons of plastic enter the oceans every year, almost all of it ___2___ (flow) from rivers. Just 10 rivers are responsible for around 90% of all that plastic, ___3___a 2017 study from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. “So ___4___we focus on the worst rivers, we believe we can really have the fastest and most cost-effective way to close the tap and prevent more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place,” Slat said. The Ocean Cleanup is effectively using floating trash collectors called “Interceptors”. These solar-powered, autonomous systems use the rivers’ currents to guide the trash onto a conveyor belt that carry the waste to ___5___ (await) bins. The first interceptor went to work in Jakarta, Indonesia, to pull plastic from a waterway called the Cengkareng drain. A second interceptor began collecting trash flowing down the Klang river in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On the other side of the world, ___6___Interceptor has recently started removing river pollution near the mouth of the Rio Ozama in the Dominican Republic. “___7___the river is polluted, the fish die. Every year there are less fish,” Luis Peguero, a local fisherman, explained. When Peguero is lucky enough to reel in (收线拉起) a catch, it ___8___not be safe for his