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届上海市虹口区高三上学期一模英语试卷 1. 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. Your Cat Might Not Be Ignoring You When You Speak Every cat owner has a story to tell of being blanked by their cat. We call to our cat, it turns away, and some of us might be left (21) (wonder)why we didn' t get a dog. But your cat may be listening after all. More than that, it (22) (care)more than you may think. A study by French researchers (23) (publish)last month in the journal Animal Cognition found that not only do cats react to what scientists call cat-directed speech—a high-pitched (高音的 )voice similar to (24) we talk to babies —they react to who is doing the talking. "We found that hearing their owners using a high-pitched voice, cats reacted more than when hearing their owner speaking normally to another human adult, "said Charlotte de Mouzon, an author of the study. "But it actually didn't work when it came from a stranger' s voice. " (25) studies involving dogs, analyzing cat behavior is difficult, which is part of why humans understand them less. Cats are stressed by being in a lab (26) meaningful behavioral observations become impossible. And forget about trying to get a cat(27) (sit)still for an M. R. I. scan (核磁共振扫描)to study its brain function. So the researchers for the latest study went to the cats' homes and played recordings of different types of speech and different speakers. At first, there was concern from Dr. de Mouzon and her team for lack of reaction from the cats, but upon analysis of the film recordings, delicate reactions (28) (notice). "It could be just moving an ear or turning the head to the speaker or even freezing what (29) were doing, ”Dr. de Mou