2017届14校高三英语第一阶段教学调研.docx

2017届十四校高三第一阶段教学调研英语试卷 I. Listening Comprehension (...) 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. From classics to movies He can recite Shakespeare’s Hamlet from memory. His favorite ancient myth is The Odyssey. Tom Hiddleston, 32, could have been a popular professor teaching English Literature at (21) ______university, but the well-educated British man chose to do something that he loves even more: acting. He’s well-known around the world as the villain Loki from the Hollywood films Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012) and now Thor : The Dark World, which will come out in China on Nov 8.Hiddleston’s role ad Thor’s evil brother has led his fans ---“Hiddlestoners”---(22) ______(refer) to him as “the most charming villain” in cinema. (23) ______his charm, Hiddleston had a tough time (24) ______(persuade) his scientist father that acting was a worthwhile job. As a student at Eton, a private school for upper-class kids in England, Hiddleton performed in a lot of school plays. At 18, he appeared on stage at the Edinburgh International Festival. “It was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said: ‘You could really do this (25) ______you wanted to ’”, Hiddleston told the Daily Mail. He said that as a teenager he didn’t have much self-esteem, but acting gave him confidence. “It was when they started saying I could do it (26) ______I really committed to it as a possibility,” he continued. However ,his father did not approve, believing his polite and bright son should be using his brains for (27) ______else. “You’ve been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?” the father told the son