四川省部分地区2023-2024学年高二上学期期末英语试题汇编：语法填空

四川省部分地区2023-2024学年高二上学期期末英语试题分类汇编 语法填空 四川省德阳市2023-2024学年高二上学期期末质量监测考试英语试题(含解析) 第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分) 阅读下面材料,根据上下文填写空白处所需的内容(1个单词)或所提供单词的正确形式。 It has been over 500 years _36_ the first journey around the earth in 1521. Long before the invention of trains and planes, many thought it was impossible. It nearly was. The journey _37_ (start) by a Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, but he never saw it finished. Magellan was following in the footsteps of explorers like Christopher Columbus. He’d traveled from Spain to America in 1492 and encouraged others _38_ (take) to the seas. But Magellan’s journey was even more daring. It was a journey around the whole world that would _39_ (complete) show the still-questioned idea that the world was not flat, but round. In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain, _40_ he got support from the Spanish King, Charles V. But Spanish sailors didn’t feel like _41_ (lead) by a Portuguese man. After fighting storms, losing ships and many of his men turning against him and returning home, Magellan was killed in the Philippines by local people. After Magellan’s _42_ (die), his group continued in the only ship that was left. Along the way, they traveled across a new ocean and _43_ (map) new paths for European trade. For better or _44_ (bad), they had made the way for modern world trade and proved that the earth was round. The passage Magellan’s team went through, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was named after him: the Strait of Magellan, which is 570 kilometers long. His influence on the world did not end there. In 1989, NASA named _45_ spacecraft after the explorer and sent it to Venus (金星). 四川省凉山州2023-2024学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题(含解析) 第二节(共10小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分15分) 阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 _56_ (sit) back in my seat, I can’t quite believe that I’m about to travel along the railway that many foreign experts _57_ (claim) was ”impossible“. The train has been racing along _58_ (steady) since it left Xining. All this time, t