2025-2026学年上海市南洋模范中学高三上学期期中考试英语试卷（含答案）

2025-2026学年上海市南洋模范中学高三上学期期中考试英语试卷II.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. Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled (详实记载) the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 By Keith Schneider, The New York Times, Published Oct. 1,2025 Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements”. Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, who earned scientific stature and global celebrity by chronicling the distinctive behavior of wild chimpanzees in East Africa—primates ____1____ made and used tools, ate meat, held rain dances and engaged in organized warfare—died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 91. Her death, ____2____ she was on a speaking tour, was confirmed by the Jane Goodall Institute, ____3____ U.S. headquarters are in Washington, D.C. When not traveling widely, she lived in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, in her childhood home. Dr. Goodall was 29 in the summer of 1963 when National Geographic magazine published her 7,500-word, 37-page account of the lives of primates she ____4____ (observe) in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in what is now Tanzania. On the scientific merits alone, her discoveries about how wild chimpanzees raised their young, established leadership, socialized and communicated _____5_____ (break) new ground and attracted immense attention and respect among researchers. Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist and science historian, said her work with chimpanzees “represents one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” On learning of Dr. Goodall’s documented evidence ____6____ humans were not the only creatures capable of making and using tools, Louis Leakey, the paleoanthropologist and Dr. Goodall’s mentor, famously remarked, “Now we ____7____ redefine ‘tool,’ redefine ‘man,’ or accept chimpanzees as humans.” In articles and books, her lucid (易懂的) prose carried vivid descriptions, some lighthearted, of the numerous perils she encountered in the African rainforest-malaria, leopards, crocodiles, spitting cobras and deadly giant centipedes, to name a few. Her writing gained its ____8____ (wide) attention in three more long articles in National Geographic in the 1960s and 70s and in three well-received books, “My Friends, the Wild Chimpanzees” (1967), “In the Shadow of Man” and “Through a Window” (1990). Dr. Goodall’s willingness to challenge scientific convention and shape the details of her research ____9____ a riveting (吸引人) adventure narrative about two primary subjects-the chimps and herself-turned her into a household name, in no small part thanks to the power o ... ...