上海市上海师大附中2019-2020学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题 （含解析无听力题）

上海市上海师大附中2019-2020学年高一上学期中考试 英语试题 II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20+30) Section A (A) Direction: After reading the passage below. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct My parents moved from New Jersey to Germany when I was a child. After a few weeks of playing with neighbors of the same age. I was speaking fluent German. That' s probably not an option if you want to learn a language _____1_____ your next international trip. However, there are some new ways to learn key words and phrases before your departure. _____2_____ playground immersion(沉浸), the best way to learn a language used to be in a classroom. Today, there are many more options. With the help of technology, you can easily get a linguistic edge, and perhaps even a cultural one, too. The last few years _____3_____ (see) a lot of language-learning software hitting the market .These programs, many of _____4_____ have popular mobile apps, help beginners learn language basics. Take Memrise for example. This language-learning platform uses flashcards(教学卡片) as memory aids. Memrise offers instruction in 25 languages, and its basic level is free, _____5_____ some advanced features available at $4.99 per month. There are so many language apps, all claiming to be the best, ____6____ there are even sites to help you sort if out. You can find detailed reports on these programs on Compare Language Apps: _____7_____ independent testing site run by Professor Roumen Vesselinov at Queens College in New York. I’ve had access to most of these apps over the years. However, I found that they were _____8_____ too complicated or too time-consuming to help me learn a language before an international trip. Perhaps my experience of acquiring a language early in life and then trying to acquire _____9_____ in a classroom(three years of French, which didn’t really stick)also contributed to my skepticism (怀疑). The language experts I spoke with say you shouldn’t allow the promises of a course or an app _____10_____ (convince)you that learning a language is easy. Experts agree that there is no substitute for "on-the-ground" experience practicing a new language with native speakers. (B) Direction: After reading the passage below. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct Increasingly, various phrases have been taking over a good old-fashioned "thank you" or "you’re welcome" in daily conversations in the United States. While _____11_____ (dine)at a restaurant, when a waiter comes by to ask Americans _____12_____ .they would like more water or bread, do you notice that they often say " I'm good,” rather than "no, thank you?” When someone thanks them for holding the door open, "no problem "is almost the same response as "you're welcome”. Are Americans becoming ruder, _____13_____ (abandon) traditional polite phrases, or are the words they use now just updated versions of the same emotion? According to Lisa Gache, co-foun ... ...