2024学年第二学期高三英语教学质量调研试卷 (考试时间105分钟：满分115分) I. Grammar and Vocabulary 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. Dig holes across the country Published in 1998, Louis Sachar's book, Holes, has won lots of awards. A film version of it was released in 2003, (1)(produce) in a professional manner by Disney, i'hcn, in 2018, the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company created a stage show that was motivated by both the book and the Hollywood film. Now, that show, (2) was a huge success when it first came out, is coming back to the stage and will be going on a tour across England. (3) Holes tells is the story of Stanley Yelnats, a boy born into a poor family. Yelnats (4)(accuse) of a crime he didn't commit. Sent to a prison camp in the desert, Yelnats must spend his days (5)(dig) holes amid poisonous snakes under the instruction of a strict prison officer. (6)Yelnats is told that this is to “build character”, he soon unearths a mystery buried deep beneath the ground. Sachar's story of hardship (7)(inspire) book readers and film audiences fbr years. The stage show is being brought back and performed around the country by the Children's Theatre Partnership (CTP), The CTP was founded in 2010, (8) the purpose of producing and touring theatre shows that are aimed at young people. Holes is the first of three shows (9)(take) on tour over the next tlircc years. A new cast of actors is bringing the book's characters to life, from a script (剧木)that was written by Sachar himself so (10)can match the aulhcnticily of this adaptation. The tour of Holes started in Northampton on 24 January and will be traveling across England before finishing in Canterbury on 30 May. If you want to find out more about the show and where it's on, and to book tickets, visit holesonstage.co.uk Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A.artificially B.bound C.causally D.conservationists E.considerable F.definitive G.dominate H.grounds 1,linked J.stabilized K.stufT Eat away fire The African continent has a wide variety of habitat types, but savanna (热带稀树草原) ecosystems cover roughly half And where there is savanna, there is fire. "It's an important part of the ecology of the system,“ says University of Liverpool ecologist James R. Probcrt. Burning allows grasses to (11)by keeping taller bushes from spreading on (he landscape. Loss of grasses could push out species sucli as wildebeest (牛於).A decade ago, researchers believed that the decline in fires in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park was due to the recovery of wildebeest populations after a certain disease. When millions of wildebeest (12) them ... ...
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