上海市上海外国语大学附属外国语学校松江云间中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题（含答案）.pdfVIP

2024学年第一学期期中考试

高三英语试卷

I.Listening略

II.GrammarandVocabulary(25分)

SectionA(共10分,每小题1分.)

Directions:Afterreadingthepassagebelow,fillintheblankstomakethepassagecoherentandgrammatically

correct.Fortheblankswithagivenword,fillineachblankwiththeproperformofthegivenword;fortheother

blanks,useonewordthatbestfitseachblank.

StephenHawking:Asuperheroscientist

Wearejustanadvancedbreedofmonkeysonaminorplanetofaveryaveragestar.Butwecanunderstand

theuniverse.Thatmakesussomethingveryspecial.That’s(21)______theworld-famousphysicistStephen

Hawkingoncedescribedhumans.

TheBritishscientistwasbestknownforhisgroundbreakingworkinphysics.Hawking’sideashelpedus

understandthewaytheuniverse(22)______(work),andmadehimfamousaroundtheworld.In1985,hesaid,My

goalissimple.Itiscompleteunderstandingoftheuniverse,whyitisasitisandwhyitexistsatall.

BorninOxfordon8January1942,Hawkingwastheoldestoffourchildren.Asastudent,he(23)______(draw)to

theworldofphysicsandmathsbecausehebelievedtheyofferedthebestinsightsintotheuniverse.

Aged21,whenhewasstudyingatuniversity,HawkingwasdiagnosedwithALS,aformofmotorneuronedisease.

Whenhisillnesslefthimunabletowrite,Hawkingtrainedhimself(24)______(visualize)complexproblemsinhis

mindinstead.ScientistswhoworkedwithHawkingsuggestedthatthiswayofthinking(25)______(help)himcome

upwithhismostbrillianttheories.

Hewroteanumberofbest-sellingbooks,includingABriefHistoryofTime,in(26)______Hawkingexplains

thescienceofcosmology(thestudyofhowtheuniversebeganandthenevolved)includinghowblackholes

work.Thesecomplicatedtopicswereexplainedinaway