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1、.2016届上海普陀高三一模考试时间： 120 分钟满分： 150 分II. Grammar and Vocabulary（ 26 分）Section ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the o
2、ther blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.(A)Different forms of hospitality (好客 )I am a British woman social anthropologist (人类学家 ). I once spent a year in Moldova, inEastern Europe, （ 25） _ (study) everyday life in the country. I stayed with a Moldovanfamily to see from the inside how peo
3、ple managed their lives. I had a wonderful time and made many new friends. What I observed is of course based on my own experience at a particular place and time.I often found (26) _ surprisinglydifficultto see life there through the eyes of aMoldovan. This was (27) _ the people I met were extremely
4、 hospitable and I was treated asan honoured guest at all times. As my hosts, they wanted me to enjoy myself, and not to get (28)_ (involve) in shopping, cooking, or other domestic jobs. Most mornings I was encouragedto go out to explore the city, or carry out my research, and I returned later to fin
5、d that my elderlylandlady and her sister had travelled across the city on buses to the central market (29) _(bring) back heavy loads of potatoes, a whole lamb, or other large quantities of products.I was often invited to people s homes, and was always offered food on entering. Most of theadults I me
6、t enjoyed inviting friends, family, neighbours, colleagues and even strangers into their homes, (30) _ they treated them to food, drink, and a lively hospitable atmosphere. Hostshurried to serve guests as well and as quickly as possible. (31) _ a household was expectingguest, large amounts of food w
7、ere prepared in advance, usually by the women. Wine had alreadybeen made, generally by the men, (32) _ were also responsible for pouring it. Unexpectedvisitors were still offered as much food and drink as the household (33) _ provide in the.circumstances.(B)How English family life has evolved since
8、the eighteenth centuryThe majority of English families of the pre-industrial age, roughly until the mid-eighteencentury, lived in a rural location. Many of them owned or had the use of a small piece of land, andactually all family members were busy with agricultural work in one form or another, usua
9、lly (34)_ (grow) food for their own consumption and sometimes also producing food or othergoods for sale.The labour was controlled by the husband, (35) _ _ his wife and children, too,had an economic value as their contributionsto the familyincome were likelyto make thedifference between starvation a
10、nd survival.Children worked from an early age, girls helping their mothers, and boys their fathers.School was an occasional factor in theirlives. Instead, children learned by doing (36) _their parents showed them. Knowledge of caring (37) _ animals, sewing was handed downfrom parent to child.Also, m
11、ost people engaged in handicraft production in the home, and the family(38)_ (pay) to work with cloth, wood or leather. In general, this work could be put aside andtaken up again when there was a break such as agricultural work.The process of industrialization in the second half of the eighteenth ce
12、ntury and during thenineteenth transformed life for the majority of the population. It was the use of steam to powermachinery (39) _ required large buildings, and it resulted in the construction of numerousfactories in many towns and cities. These in turn (40) _（encourage） migration from thecountrys
13、ide in search of work. If electricityhad preceded steam, domestic industry might havesurvived more fully.Section BDirections:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can onlybe used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A.commentB.complexC.depressionD.ex
14、pectE. equivalentF. holdsG.mappedH.recommendedI.handleJ.notedK.severeBeing sociable looks like a good way to add years to your life. Relationships with family,friends, neighbours, even pets, will all do the trick, but the biggest longevity (长寿 ) boost seems tocome from marriage or a(n) _ relationship. The effect was first noted in 1858 _by WilliamFarr, who wrote that widows ( 寡妇 )and widowers were at a much higher risk of dying than their married peers. Studies since then suggest that marriage could add as much as seven years to aman s life and two to a woman s. The e
