上海市部分区2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语汇编：语法填空

上海市部分区 2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语试题分类汇编 语法填空 2024届上海市崇明区高三上学期第一次模拟考试英语试卷 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. Life May Actually Flash Before Your Eyes on Death New data from a scientific “accident” has suggested that life may actually flash before our eyes as we die. A team of scientists set out to measure the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient who (21) _____ (develop) epilepsy (癫痫) for many years. But during the neurological (神经学的) recording, he suffered a fatal heart attack, (22) _____ (offer) an unexpected recording of a dying brain. It revealed that in the 30 seconds before and after, the man’s brainwaves followed the same patterns as dreaming or recalling memories. Brain activity of this sort could suggest that a final “recall of life” may occur in a person’s last moments, the team wrote in their study, (23) _____ (publish) in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience on Tuesday. Dr Ajmal Zemmar, a co-author of the study, said that what the team, then based in Vancouver, Canada, accidentally got, (24) _____ (consider) the first-ever recording of a dying brain. So will we get a glimpse back at those moments (25) _____ we stayed with loved ones and other happy memories? Dr Zemmar said it was impossible (26) _____ (tell). “If I were to jump to the philosophical area, I would guess that if the brain did a flashback, it would probably like to remind you of good things, rather than the bad things,” he said. “But (27) _____ is memorable would be different for every person.” Dr Zemmar, now a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, said in the 30 seconds (28) _____ the patient’s heart stopped supplying blood to the brain, his brainwaves followed the same patterns as when we carry out high-cognitive demanding (高认知要求的) tasks