2018-2019年上海浦东外国语高三上学期英语周练二.docxVIP

试卷一 II.?Grammar?and?Vocabulary Section?A ADDIS?ABABA,?Ethiopia?–?At?19,?Yohannes?Gebregeorgis?borrowed?a?novel?entitled?Love?Kitten?that changed?his?life?forever.?Born?in?rural?Ethiopia,?his?father?was?an?illiterate?cattle?merchant?who?insisted?that his??son???(21)________??(have)??an???education.???So??Gebregeorgis??had??seen???a??few??books??in??school.??But (22)________?(have)?a?book?of?his?own?sparked?a?lifelong?commitment. Today,?Gebregeorgis?is?establishing?libraries?and?literacy?programs?to?connect?Ethiopian?children?with books.??“Most??Ethiopian??children??only??have??access??to??textbooks??in??the??classroom,”??says??Gebregeorgis. “Books?(23)________?children?read?outside?of?school?are?the?spices?of?education.” Until?he?became?a?children’s?librarian,?he?didn’t?realize?(24)________?the?children?of?his?native?home were?missing.?Arriving?in?the?United?States?in?1981,?Gebregeorgis?ultimately?put?himself?through?college, (25)________??(obtain)??a??graduate??degree??in??library??science.??He??took??a??position??at??the??San??Francisco Children’s?Library?in?1985.?There,?he?met?The?Little?Engine?That?Could,?Captain?Ahab,?and?Peter?Pan.?He realized??the??impact??children’s??books??could??make??(26)________??a??child’s??sense??of??wonder??and??vision. “Children?could?imagine?everything?from?books?–?connections?to?other?cultures,?to?other?people,?to?other children,??and??to??the??universe??at??large.??Reading??gives??them??hope.??It??gives??them??pleasure.??It??gives??them everything?that?they?cannot?otherwise?get?in?regular?textbooks.” But??Gebregeorgis??found??that??there??were??no??children’s??books??in??Amharic,??the??primary??language??of Ethiopia,?and?none?representing?the?places?and?characters?of?Ethiopian?lore.?(27)_______?the?library?granted $1,200?for?the?purchase?of?Ethiopian?books,?Gebregeorgis?was?unable?to?find?any,?so?he?wrote?one.?Silly Mamma??was??the??first??bilingual??Amharic-English??children’s??book,??and??its??publication??led??Gebregeorgis (28)