【期末备考】2023年上海市高二下期末复习英语试卷-B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 -B卷（解析版） 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、语法填空 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. Meet the Islands Located 86 km north-east of Bougainville in the South Pacific, the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea are composed of low-lying islands ____1____ (distribute) in a horseshoe shape, with a total land area of 0.6 square kilometers and a maximum elevation of 1.5 meters above sea level. The Carteret Islands are believed ____2____ (inhabit) for more than one thousand years. Few places are as calm, peaceful and beautiful as the seaside here on a calm day. People are very ____3____ (welcome), gentle, and calm. There’s no phone network, shops, computers, roads, cars, or motorbikes. Food is cooked on open fires. People here live sustainably. They don’t overfish or pollute, making no contribution to the warming of our planet. However, they are feeling the consequences of the climate change. Now, as the land ____4____ (swallow) by the rising sea, the islanders are faced with an uncertain future. Storms and high tides wash away homes, destroy vegetable gardens and pollute fresh water supplies. The trees on the island are also being impacted by the saltwater. The beach exists ____5____ fertile soil once did. ____6____ the coral and seagrasses die, so do the breeding areas for fish. Many seawalls have been built ____7____ with little success. The islands have gradually become uninhabitable. The Carteret islanders are labelled as the world’s first official climate-change refugees, as they are forced to abandon their homelands ____8____ food shortages, rising sea levels, sinking shorelines, and the dangers of storms and tides. In front of ____9____ is the choice whether to stay and watch the i