廣東省深圳市龍崗區(qū)龍城高級中學2020屆高三第一次模擬考試英語試題-試卷下載-教習網(wǎng)

第一部分閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分）
第一節(jié)（共15小題;每小題2分，滿分30分）
閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
A
Do you know the toys below? They were once among the most popular toys.
1960 — Etch A Sketch
French electrician Andre Cassagnes had the idea of a drawing toy with a joy stick, a glass screen, and aluminum (鋁) powder. Using that idea, the Ohio Art Co. launched (推出) the Magic Screen in 1960, and you could erase the picture with a shake of your hands. You can still find the toy today.
1964 — SuperBall
What happens when you accidentally create a plastic ball that jumps? The toy company, Wham-O Inc., buys your idea and it ends up selling millions. That’s exactly what happened to Norman Stingley, a chemical engineer who came upon SuperBall. At one time, Wham-O had to produce over 170,000 balls a day to keep up with the demand. Unbelievably, the National Football Game named the Super Bowl game (a well-known American football game) after this jumping ball.
1964 — G.I. Joe
In 1964, Hasbro toy company created G.I. Joe, a line of action figures designed to represent the 4 branches of the US Armed Forces — Action Soldier (Army), Action Sailor (Navy), Action Pilot (Air Force), and the Action Marine (Marine Corps). G.I. Joe was imagined as an excellent military unit devoted to defending citizens’ freedom against the evil persons. It has attracted the imagination of boys around the world.
1965 — Operation
An unsteady hand is your downfall (敗落的原因) in the game of Operation, which was invented by John Spinello, a student at the University of Illinois. Later, Spinello sold his right to the toy to a well-known toy designer Marvin Glass for a sum of $500. Operation is currently made by Hasbro, with estimated sales of $40 million.
1. Which toy has a relationship with the sports event?
A. Etch A Sketch. B. SuperBall.
C. G.I. Joe. D. Operation.
2. Who probably are most interested in G.I. Joe?
A. Those fond of arts.
B. Those fond of construction.
C. Those fond of brave soldiers.
D. Those fond of kind doctors.
3. If you want to play with Operation successfully, you should __________.
A. keep your hand stable
B. have better teamwork
C. get Norman Stingley’s guidance
D. have a joy stick and a glass screen
B
Attention managers: the next time you need to inspire your team creatively, be more attentive to your employees’ feelings when you deliver negative feedback (反績).
Kim，who worked as a software engineer for Samsung after graduation from college, is familiar with having his creative work picked apart. “I personally hate hearing negative feedback as most people do and I wondered if it really improved my performance, particularly when it came to completing creative tasks.” In two studies, Kim found that negative feedback can help or prevent creativity. What is most important is where the criticism (批評) comes from.
When creative professionals or participants received criticism from a boss or a peer, they tended to be less creative in their later work. Interestingly, if a person received negative feedback from an employee of lower rank, they became more creative.
It makes sense that employees might feel threatened by criticism from their managers. Supervisors (監(jiān)督員；管理者）have a lot of power in deciding promotions or pay raises. So negative feedback from a boss mi運it cause career (職業(yè)) anxiety. It also stands to reason that feedback from a co-worker might also be received as threatening. We often compete with our peers for the same promotions and chances.
What Kim found most surprising was how criticism proved to improve supervisors through lessons learned from negative feedback that came from their followers (employees that they manage).
“But we tend to believe we shouldn’t criticize the boss，” says Kim. “In reality，most supervisors don’t detest negative feedback since they want to learn from it. Another reason is that they are in a natural power position and can deal with the discomfort of negative feedback better.”
As for giving suggestions to employees，bosses should point out a follower’s poor performance or weak points in time. But they should keep their feedback specific to tasks. Explain how the point they’re discussing relates to only their task behavior, not to aspects of the person. Meanwhile, feedback receivers need to worry less when it comes to receiving criticism.
4. What’s the motivation behind Kim’s study?
A. To work on his essays for graduation.
B. To have a better knowledge of criticism.
C. To call for understanding between workers.
D. To encourage a culture of criticism in the workplace.
5. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 4?
A. What typical power supervisors possess.
B. What feedback can cause career anxieties.
C. How workers can have a good impression on bosses.
D. Why certain criticism harms a person’s performance.
6. What amazed Kim mostly in the study?
A. Some people enjoy negative feedback.
B. Employees are brave to criticize the boss.
C Followers’ criticism may benefit managers.
D. Many bosses sometimes struggle in their work.
7. What does the underlined word “detest” in Paragraph 6 most probably mean?
A. Hate. B. Understand. C. Discuss. D. Provide.
C
Recently according to a new research，humans have had a link to starches (含淀粉的食物) for up to 120,000 years — that’s more than 100,000 years longer than we’ve been able to plant them in the soil during the time of the Ice Age’s drawing to an end. The research is part of an ongoing study into the history of Middle Stone Age communities.
An international team of scientists identified evidence of prehistoric starch consumption in the Klasies River Cave, in present-day South Africa. Analyzing small, ashy, undisturbed hearths (壁爐）inside the cave, the re-searchers found “pieces of burned starches” ranging from around 120,000 to 65,000 years old. It made them the oldest known examples of starches eaten by humans.
The findings do not come as a complete surprise — but rather as welcome confirmation of older theories that lacked the related evidence. The lead author Cynthia Larbey said that there had previously only been genetic (基因的) biological evidence to suggest that humans had been eating starch for this long. This new evidence, however, takes us directly to the dinner table, and supports the previous assumption that humans，digestion genes gradually evolved in order to fit into an increased digestion of starch.
Co-author Sarah Wurz said, “The starch remains show that these early humans living in the Klasies River Cave could battle against their tough environment and find suitable foods and perhaps medicines. And as much as we all still desire the tubers (塊莖），these cave communities were grilling starches such as potatoes on their foot-long hearths. They knew how to balance their diets as well as they could, with fats from local fish and other animals.”
As early as the 1990s, some researchers started to study the hearths in the Klasies River Cave. Scientist Hilary Deacon first suggested that these hearths contained burned plants. At the time, the proper methods of examining the remains were not yet available. We now know human beings have always been searching for their desired things.
8. When did humans begin to farm starches?
A. After the Ice Age.
B. After the Middle Stone Age.
C. About 20,000 years ago.
D. About 100,000 years ago.
9. According to the scientists, remains in the Klasies River Cave show that
A. South Africa once had rich soil to grow crops
B. hearths were widespread in early human history
C. early humans possibly drove away animals by fire
D. settlers there might have used fire to cook starches
10. What was the previous assumption of starches?
A. Starch diet promoted food culture.
B. Starch diet shaped humans’ evolution.
C. Starches had a variety of functions.
D. Starches offered humans rich nutrition.
11. What can we learn about the early humans described by Sarah Wurz?
A. They were smart and tough.
B. They preferred plants to meat.
C. They were generally very healthy.
D. They got along with each other.
D
Everyone knows that to help lessen the ongoing climate crisis, we need to plant new trees. A paper recently published in Science predicts that our Earth could support an additional 9,000,000 sq km of forest, potentially hosting 500 billion trees that are able to absorb more than 200 billion tonnes of C〇2. It would be a serious help.
The Earth’s land is 149,000,000 sq km. According to our study, when we take out glaciers (冰川）and deserts, we are left with 104,000,000 sq km. When we further take out cities, freshwater, forests, etc., we finally get 51,000,000 sq km of arable (適于耕種的）land badly needed to feed 7.5 billion human beings.
Very few people are aware of the great complexity of the whole system. “Widespread use at the scale of millions of square kilometers globally of tree-planting and bioenergy crops (用于制造生物能源的農(nóng)作物）planting,” reads an IPCC report, u could have potentially bad consequences for food security and land degradation (退化).” In other words, more widespread monoculture (單一栽培) and more bioenergy crops could degrade soil.
Bioenergy now has a 50 per cent share of the world’s renewable energy consumption, according to expert Fatih Birol’s words:“as much as wind, solar and all others combined”. It’s good news，but not entirely. One reason is that rising ocean levels and deserts spreading are taking away more arable land. So we arrive at a tough choice. Should we use our spare soil for agriculture, reforestation or bioenergy?
Firstly, when planning to use lots of spare land to grow trees, we should notice that last year, 36,000 sq km of forest was cut down. So wouldn’t it be better to start by stopping cutting down forests altogether? Besides, animal farming takes up 77 per cent of the world’s arable land and provides us with 18 per cent of the calories. Shouldn’t we globally cut back on meat consumption? Lastly, modem bioenergy, which is made from non-food-crops, is already available. Shouldn’t we avoid first-generation biofuels，which are obtained from food crops?
12. What does the Science paper predict?
A. People will be more active in planting trees.
B. The climate change will lessen in the future.
C. Large quantities of trees can help handle C02.
D. Trees will play a much bigger role in our daily life.
13. What are the figures in Paragraph 2 mainly intended to show?
A. Humans face a freshwater crisis.
B. The Earths land has various functions.
C. Forests take up a small part of the Earth’s land.
D. The arable land is hard to feed the world’s population.
14. What can be inferred from the IPCC report?
A. Planting trees benefits bioenergy crops.
B. More land can be used for growing bioenergy crops.
C. The condition of plenty of land has been improved.
D. Large scale of tree-planting may be a double-edged sword.
15. What’s the last paragraph mainly about?
A. How to properly use our spare soil.
B. How to produce more trees and biofuels.
C. Why to protect our environment.
D. What to know about our role in nature.
第二節(jié) (共5小題;每小題2分，滿分10分）
根據(jù)短文內容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。
Social psychology's roots were laid in the late 1800s of Europe. Social psychology became a distinct discipline in the 1920s. 16 He was called the “father” of the discipline.
17 Social psychology studies people’s attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. It also examines interpersonal interaction, analyzing the way in which someone interacts with other people. It also examines cultural influences like advertisements, books, films, television, and radio.
Social psychologists like to use empirical (以實驗為依據(jù)的）methods to conduct studies in their fields. These methods often involve experiments which can bring up complex ethical (倫理的) problems. One of the most infamous social psychology experiments was the Stanford Prison Experiment. 18 To avoid a repeat of such questionable experiments, social psychologists rely on the efforts of ethics committees to ensure that their work is ethically allowable.
The study of social psychology is significant. It can explain how groups make decisions, which social conditions can lead to improper behavior, etc. And social psychologists are constantly learning more about the science behind human interactions. 19
If you want to learn more about this field of psychology, you may be able to take an introductory course at a local college in your area. 20 Once you start studying the discipline, try to be devoted to it!·
A. Or you may give lectures on this field.
B. Social psychology deals with a wide range of areas.
C. It was shut down at last because it got out of control.
D. One of the major influences in the field was Kurt Lewin.
E. So social psychology is a discipline that’s beneficial to humans.
F. Zimbardo is also a very famous social psychologist in the world.
G. You can also consult your library for some published texts on the subject.
第二部分語言知識運用 (共兩節(jié)，滿分45分)
第一節(jié) 完形填空（共20小題;每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
Brandon Steiner created the bagel (百吉餅) business at the age of 12. 21, the business wasn’t great. Meanwhile, he delivered papers every morning.
What his mother said gave Steiner great 22. When delivering papers then, he started 23 each customer a bagel. Within a month he was making his deliveries in a small shopping cart 24 250 papers each day were too much for his bike. Later, the improvement of his business 25 his replacing the small cart with a large one. Steiner made $5.50 an hour by starting 26 at 4:30 am and it was a pretty high income for a kid in the 1970s. This experience is one of his invaluable life 27, which shows his remarkable business 28.
He 29 as an incredibly successful entrepreneur who revolutionized the sports memorabilia (紀念品）30 , turning a small firm with “$4,000, a computer and a worker” into Steiner Sports, helping other small related companies to 31 their business. Steiner Sports has spent 25 years building a 32 with more than 2,000 athletes. Steiner Sports is also the 33 producer of collectibles (收藏品)from athletic stars like Derek Jeter and Peyton Manning. Steiner has 34 countless baseballs and football helmets, and signed sports shirts.
As one might guess, there are a lot of stories 35 to Steiner. He sold his Steiner Sports to Omnicom Group for a reported $25 million. 36 selling it, Steiner still offers advice to help run the company that was 37 by himself. He has also written some books on his 38. The kid from Brooklyn, who now lives in Scarsdale, NY, 39 so much when growing from a newspaper delivery boy to a (n) 40 entrepreneur and writer.
21. A. Moreover B. However C. Therefore D. Anyway
22. A. ambition B. adaptation C. conclusion D. inspiration
23. A. bringing B. finding C. buying D. passing
24. A. though B. if C. since D. but
25. A. contributed to B. relied on C. figured out D. wrestled with
26. A. studying B. cooking C. exercising D. working
27. A. goals B. lessons C. dreams D. activities
28. A. interest B. determination C. talent D. qualification
29. A. ended up B. resulted in C. broke out D. took on
30. A. culture B. competition C. education D. industry
31. A. mind B. practise C. expand D. manage
32. A. scholarship B. ownership C. membership D. relationship
33. A. leading B. private C. efficient D. foreign
34. A. received B. exported C. marketed D. purchased
35. A. equal B. relative C. true D. similar
36. A. On behalf of B. In consequence of C. On account of D. In spite of
37. A. motivated B. deserved C. established D. remembered
38. A. importance B. experiences C. perfection D. differences
39. A. struggled B. required C. donated D. shared
40. A. well-known B. easy-going C. broad-minded D. kind-hearted
第二節(jié) (共10小題;每小題1.5分，滿分15分）
閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入1個適當?shù)膯卧~或括號內單詞的正確形式。
Haven’t you always wondered why the beginning and the end of the present school year don’t line up with the calendar year? Well, (41) __________ answer might surprise you: the school year actually (42) __________ (date) back to the time when the farming schedule took precedence over (優(yōu)先于，比……重要）everything else — even schooling.
Farming can only be done in spring, summer, and fall. Families needed kids5 help, so their schooling took place in the colder months (43) __________ nothing could be planted or harvested. Thus kids could help with farm duties during busy seasons.
Large (44) ________ (city) operated differently. Because people there didn’t rely on fanning (45) __________ (earn) a living, kids could go to school all year round and take a few short vacations throughout.
When education started to become more valuable in society, much (46) __________ (strict) rules had to be made so that there would be more uniformity (一致，統(tǒng)一）in the school system. In 1852, Massachusetts became the first state to enact a compulsory public law, making it compulsory (47)__________ both rural areas and urban areas to offer schooling. Parents (48)__________ (fine) if they didn’t send children to schools.
(49)__________ (short) after Massachusetts enacted the law, a compromise (50)__________ (make) between urban and rural school systems let the school year start in the fall so kids could help with fanning during the summer.
第三部分寫作（共兩節(jié)，f滿分35 +)
第一節(jié) 短文改錯(共10小題;每小題1分，滿分10分）
假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處，每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。
增加:在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（^），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。
刪除:把多佘的詞用斜線(\)劃掉。
修改:在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。
注意：1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；
2.只允許修改10處，多者(從第11處起)不計分。
Barbara is one of my favorite Walmart employee. Take one glance, and you’ll find she has joy burying deep in her soul. I got to know Barbara the couple of weeks ago. She was my cashier. And I couldn’t help but to admire her fancy, fall-themed headband, that she made using autumn leaves and flowers. As people joyfully commented her headband, she smiled. Thanksgiving was one of the busy times of the year, especially for checkout workers in the supermarket. Barbara could have chose to just put her head down and scan groceries. However, she didn’t. She chose to greet each customer warm. She not only entertained her but also other people.
第二節(jié)書面表達(滿分25分）
假如你是李華，你想邀請你的好友Chris參加你堂哥的婚禮，讓她體驗中國的婚禮文化。請給Chris寫封信，內容包括：
1. 發(fā)出邀請；
2. 簡介婚禮(如時間、地點、流程）；
3. 婚禮禮儀(如服飾和用餐禮儀）。
注意：
1. 詞數(shù)：100左右；
2. 可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫。
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41. the 42. dates
43. when 44. cities
45. to earn 46. stricter
47. for 48. would be fined
49. Shortly 50. made
短文改錯(One possible version)
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And I couldn’t help but to admire her fancy, fall-themed headband, that she made using autumn
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greet each customer warm. She not only entertained her but also other people.
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書面表達 (One possible version)
Dear Chris,
I’d like you to attend my cousin’s wedding, where you can have a good experience of Chinese wedding culture. The wedding is to be held in Yingchun Hotel on May 5. In the morning, we’ll first go to pick up the bride at her home. At about twelve o’clock, the traditional wedding ceremony will be held in the groom’s home. After the ceremony, it will be the wedding feast, during which we should avoid breaking any bowl or plate since the broken bowl or plate is considered to likely predict an unhappy marriage. As for the clothes, we’d better not wear black ones. If you want to learn more about the wedding, please contact me.
Yours,
Li Hua
閱讀理解
第一節(jié)
A
　　導語：文章是一篇應用文。介紹了曾經(jīng)很流行的幾款玩具。
1. B。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)1964 — SuperBall部分中的the NFL named the Super Bowl game (a ... game) after this jumping ball.可知，（美國）超級碗橄欖球賽以這個彈跳球來命名比賽。
2. C。推理判斷題。根據(jù)1964 — G.I. Joe部分中的In 1964, Hasbro toy company created GI Joe, ... and the Action Marine (Marine Corps).可知，喜愛勇敢的戰(zhàn)士的人，可能對GI Joe最感興趣。
3. A。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)1965 — Operation部分中的An unsteady hand is your downfall in the game of Operation可知，要確保手保持穩(wěn)定，才能成功地完成Operation這款游戲。
B
導語：本文是一篇議論文。作者以Kim有關批評與創(chuàng)造力的研究為論據(jù)，論述了我們應該怎樣看待批評與創(chuàng)造力之間的關系，以及怎樣反饋和接受批評。
4. B。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的Kim, who worked as a software engineer ... “I personally hate ... creative tasks.”可知，Kim開展研究是想更好地了解批評。
5. D。主旨大意題。結合第三段的內容并通讀第四段并可知，第四段的主旨是：為什么來自上級或同事的批評會抑制一個人的創(chuàng)造力。
6. C。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段的What Kim found most surprising ... (employees that they manage).可知，令人驚訝的發(fā)現(xiàn)是：下級的批評對管理者有利。
7. A。詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第六段的In reality, most supervisors ... feedback better.可知，管理者實際上并沒有那么討厭下屬的消極反饋。
C
導語：本文是一篇說明文。研究者在南非的一個洞穴里有關古人食用淀粉類植物的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)。
8. C。數(shù)字計算題。根據(jù)第一段的 ... for up to 120,000 years — that’s more than 100,000 years ... in the soil可知，人類是在20,000年以前開始種植含淀粉類植物。
9. D。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的 ... the researchers found “pieces of burned starches” ... starches eaten by humans.并結合全文內容可知，Klasies River Cave的遺跡顯示：居住在此洞穴的人可能使用火來烹飪含淀粉類植物。
10. B。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段的 the previous assumption that humans’ digestion genes ... digestion of starch可知之前提出的假設是：食用淀粉的飲食方式影響了人類身體方面的進化。
11. A。推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段內容Co-author Sarah Wurz said, “The starch remains show that these early humans ... other animals.”可推知，Sarah Wurz認為這些早期人類聰慧而又堅韌不拔。
D
　　導語：本文是一篇議論文。話題是如何使用地球上的土地。作者認為不能一味地把大片的可利用的土地用來植樹造林和種植（用來制造生物能源的）作物。
12. C。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的A paper recently published ... absorb more than 200 billion tonnes of CO2.可知，雜志上的報告預測：大量的樹木可以幫助來解決二氧化碳的問題。
13. D。寫作意圖題。根據(jù)第二段的Take out cities (1.5 million) ... badly needed to feed 7.5 billion human beings.可知，這些數(shù)字是用來說明適于耕作的土地面積有限，很難養(yǎng)活現(xiàn)在世界上所有的人口。
14. D。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段的“Widespread use ... of tree-planting ... land degradation,” reads an IPCC report.可知，用大面積的土地來植樹造林，一方面可能影響耕地面積，從而影響糧食安全，另一方面可能會引起土壤退化，故大規(guī)模的植樹造林一方面有利于二氧化碳的減少，但也有缺點。
15. A。主旨大意題。通讀最后一段可知，本段的主旨是：作者給出的如何合理使用適于耕種土地的建議。
第二節(jié)
　　導語：本文是一篇說明文。主要介紹了社會心理學這門課程。
16. D。此空設于段中，與下文存在指代關系。下文中的He指代正確選項中的Kurt Lewin。
17. B。此空設于段首，是本段主題句。下文主要介紹的是心理學研究的范圍廣，故選該項。
18. C。此空設于段中，與上文存在指代關系。正確選項中的It指代上文中的 the Stanford Prison Experiment。
19. E。此空設于段尾，對本段內容作出總結：心理學是一門很有益于人類的學科。
20. G。此空設于段中，與上文存在并列關系，給讀者介紹了了解心理學的另一種途徑。
完形填空
　　導語：本文是一篇夾敘夾議文。主要介紹了Brandon Steiner從一名報童成長為一名企業(yè)家的故事。
21. B。前后句子之間是轉折關系，故用however（然而）。
22. D。根據(jù)下文可知，此處表示媽媽的話給了他很大靈感（inspiration）。
23. A。根據(jù)上文Brandon Steiner created the bagel (百吉餅) business可知，此處表示他在送報的時候給每一位顧客帶一個百吉餅。
24. C。前后句子之間是因果關系，故用since引導原因狀語從句。
25. A。事業(yè)的進步，促使他把小車換成了大車，contributed to表示“促成，導致”。
26. D。根據(jù)上文Steiner made $5.50 an hour可知，此處表示他在早上4:30就開始工作。
27. B。這個經(jīng)歷是他非常寶貴的人生經(jīng)驗（lessons）之一，也顯示了他卓越的商業(yè)天賦（talent）。
28. C。這個經(jīng)歷是他非常寶貴的人生經(jīng)驗（lessons）之一，也顯示了他卓越的商業(yè)天賦（talent）。
29. A。文章主要介紹了Brandon Steiner的成長歷程，故此處表示他最終成為了（ended up as）一位很成功的企業(yè)家。
30. D。他改革了體育紀念品產(chǎn)業(yè)（industry），并且?guī)椭渌嚓P的小公司拓展（expand）業(yè)務。
31. C。他改革了體育紀念品產(chǎn)業(yè)（industry），并且?guī)椭渌嚓P的小公司拓展（expand）業(yè)務。
32. D。根據(jù)下文athletic stars like Derek Jeter and Peyton Manning可知，此處表示Steiner Sports和兩千多名運動員建立了關系（relationship）。
33. A。此處進一步說明Steiner Sports是體育明星紀念品重要的（leading）生產(chǎn)企業(yè)。
34. C。Steiner Sports已經(jīng)出售了（marketed）無數(shù)棒球和橄欖球頭盔以及球衣。
35. B。毋庸置疑，關于（relative）他的成功，有很多故事。
36. D。前后分句之間是轉折關系，故用In spite of（雖然）。
37. C。雖然把它出售了，但是他仍然作為顧問幫助管理他所創(chuàng)建（established）的公司。
38. B。根據(jù)上文there are a lot of stories relative to Steiner可知，此處表示他寫了一些關于他的經(jīng)歷（experiences）的書。
39. A。Brandon Steiner從孩提時代開始，努力奮斗（struggled）之后，從賣報紙成長為一名著名的（well-known）企業(yè)家兼作家。
40. A。Brandon Steiner從孩提時代開始，努力奮斗（struggled）之后，從賣報紙成長為一名著名的（well-known）企業(yè)家兼作家。
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　　導語：本文是一篇說明文。主要介紹了入學時間的演變。
41. the?？疾楣谠~。此處的answer特指the school year actually...even school。故此處特指名詞answer，需用定冠詞。
42. dates?？疾橹^語動詞。根據(jù)上下文可知，此處語境是：現(xiàn)在的學年實際上可追溯到…，故需用一般現(xiàn)在時。
43. when?？疾檫B詞。所填詞引導限制性定語從句，先行詞是months，且引導詞在從句中作時間狀語，故填when。
44. cities。考查名詞。city是可數(shù)名詞，且此處指的是眾多城市，故填city的復數(shù)形式。
45. to earn?？疾榉侵^語動詞。rely on sb/sth to do是固定短語，意為“依靠……做某事”。
46. stricter?？疾樾稳菰~。much修飾形容詞的比較級。
47. for?？疾榻樵~。make it compulsory for sb to do sth，意為“強制某人做某事”。
48. would be fined?？疾闀r態(tài)語態(tài)。根據(jù) if they didn’t send their children可知，主句應該用過去將來時，且句子主語parents和動詞fine是被動關系，故填would be fined。
49. Shortly?？疾楦痹~。修飾后面整個句子，故填short的副詞形式Shortly。
50. made?？疾榉侵^語動詞。此處是非謂語動詞作定語，compromise與make之間是被動關系，故填過去分詞。