【正文】 2017年上海高三七校聯(lián)考英語試卷 I. Listening Comprehension（略） II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: 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 of the given word。 for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. When Armida Armato‘s daughter , Alexia , came home from school one day last year , keen to go on a school trip to Ecuador , she wasn‘t too sure ___21_____to feel . She was happy that her daughter ___22______ experience something she never did as a teen but was fearful of her travel to such a remote part of the world. Alexia was 16 at the time , a student at Westwood High School . The school sponsored a humanitarian trip for 26 students and two teachers _____23_____(spend) 18 days in a mountain village to build a oneroom school . Even though Armato trusted her daughter , the other students and the teachers , she was worried about the side effects ____24___ the travel vaccines , possible accidents , and medical care. Now that Alexia was home , Armato said she saw her daughter‘s new maturity , greater confidence and independence . ―This is the ___25_____(good) thing I ever did ,‖ Alexia said . ― The experience was so eye opening and lifechanging . You‘re with people who are not as lucky as you are . They live in very poor conditions ___26_____ they‘re so happy and outgoing . You say , ?My god , I‘m taking ___27_____ for granted back home.‖ She said they built a oneroom school from scratch with no mechanical cement mixers . They used their hands , shovels and basic tools . She and another student lived with a local family in a small village about eight hours outside the capital , Quito . Despite the initial strangeness and ___28____(know ) only basic Spanish , she said they grew very close and felt like a family. Every year , groups of students at Montreal High School like Alexia pack their bags and fly off with classmates and teachers to developing countries ____29___ they volunteer for a variety of projects. ―Armato‘s worries are very mon among parents,‖ says Bill Neivn ,a teacher at ?s high School . He anizes a humanitarian trip to India to the Sheela Bal Bhavan orphanage and says the three biggest fears families have ____30______ (be) health , security and contact. Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. apparently B. surprisingly C. spirituality D. tried E. poetry F. statement G. physical H. released I. lasting j. recorded K. instruments When US musician Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of this year ?s Nobel Prize for literature last month , many people took to social media to suggest that Leonard Cohen was the only other living songwriter who deserved the honor. Sadly , on Nov 7 , the deepvoiced Canadian artist died at the age of 82. Many tributes ( 稱贊 ) were written for Cohen , who had just ____31____ his 14th album , You Want It Darker , on Oct 21. ― Leonard Cohen is as important today as he was in the 1960s ,‖ Canada ?s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a ____32____ . ― His ability to describe human emotion made him one of the most influential and _____33____musicians ever.‖ Cohen‘s most famous song , Hallenlujah , in which he pared ___34_____ love to a need for spiritual connection , has been ____35____ hundreds of times by different musicians since it was first released in 1984. And Cohen‘s song Bird on a Wire (1969) could be considered a perfect epitaph (墓志銘 ) that he wrote for himself. As the song‘s first line goes , ― Like a bird on a wire , like a drunk in midmight choir , I have ___36_____in my way to be free .‖ ― Cohen writes words that explain what it means to be human . I ?ve read___37_____that has as much beauty as Cohen‘s work , but in the world of music , Cohen is a rarity ,‖ US singer Jennifer Warnes told the Ausin AmericanStatesman newspaper . ? He describes things that go on inside a heart and what it feels like to be here.‖ Along with his ____38___， Cohen‘s dry , deep voice also helped his popularity . In 2020 he spoke with the NPR radio station about how he got his interesting voice ____39____it was ―500 tons of whiskey and a million cigarettes.‖ But he never fot to work on the _____40_____that made up his songs , even though he was most famous for his lyrics and voice. III. Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that