上海市继光高级中学2014届高考英语新题型试卷（冲刺精编）I. Grammar(A)Nate suffered a (25)__________(shock) blow when he lost his job. His boss had spoken rudely, “Your services are no longer needed.” Nate left the building (26)__________(fill) with despair. By the time he reached home, he was in deep depression. When he entered his house, he said to his wife Sophia, “I lost my job. I am a complete failure.” A tense silence (27)__________(follow). Then a smile crept across Sophia’s face. “(28)__________ great news!” she responded. “Now you can write the book you have always wanted to write.”“But I have no job and no prospect of a job,”he objected, completely without hope. “(29)______ ____ I struggle to be an author, then what will we live on? Where will the money come from?”Sophia took her husband by the hand and led him to the kitchen. (30)__________(open) a drawer, she took out a box that was full of cash. “Where on earth did you get this?” Nate gasped. “To whom does it belong?”“It’s ours!” Sophia replied. “I always knew that one day you would become a great writer if only you were given the chance. From the money you gave me for housekeeping every week, I have saved as (31)__________ as I could so you would have your chance. Now there is enough to last us a whole year.”What a surprise! What encouragement! What a wife! The unemployed husband (32)__________ concentrate on writing that year, and the novel he wrote became literary masterpiece. The book is The Scarlet Letter.(B)It has been argued by some that gifted children should be grouped in special classes. The arguments have been on the belief that in regular classes these children are held back in their intellectual(智力的) growth by learning situation that has been designed (33)__________ the average children.There can be little doubt (34)______ ____ special classes can help the gifted children to graduate earlier and take their place in life sooner. However, to take these children out of the regular classes (35)__________ create serious problems.I observed (36)__________ number of intelligent children who were taken out of a special class and placed in a regular class. In the special class, they showed little ability (37)__________ (use) their own judgment, relying heavily on their teacher s’ directions. In the regular class, having no worry about keeping up, they began to reflect voluntarily on many problems, some of (38)__________ were not on the school program.Many (39)__________(concern) that gifted children become bored and lose interest in learning. However, this concern is more often from parents and teachers than from students, and some of these adults simply conclude that special classes should be set up for those (40)__________ are talented. Some top students do feel bored in class, but why they feel so goes far beyond the workthey have in school. Studies have shown that to be bored is to be anxious. The gifted child who is bored is an anxious child.II. VocabularyIt is commonly believed that Westerners who take “yes”and “no”at face value are more straightforward than Chinese. The idea contains some truth. Normally Westerners don’t have to adopt Chinese tactics(策略) like sweeping the floor or constantly checking the clock to (41)__________ to a guest that it’s time to leave. They don’t have to hesitate in saying “no” when they are not able to, or don’t want to, offer help to a friend in need. There is no (42)__________ attached to this behavior.But it is too simple to (43)__________ that Westerners are more direct speakers than the Chinese. There are many (44)__________ when the way Westerners express themselves makes Chinese look more straightforward and honest.A teaching director a university once asked students what they thought about the new part-time professor. In (45)__________, almost every western student (46)__________ three paragraphs to the qualities of the professor before the last line came out -- “There are some gaps in her teaching methods.”It’s more polite than the answer, “She seems to know a lot but doesn’t know how to teach.”Because of the introverted(含蓄的) social standards and the deeply-rooted “face issue”, speaking honestly is (47)__________ in China. Similarly, Americans have their own reasons to distort(扭曲) words. This results partly from several generations of people who have been told they have done well even when they have (48)__________.So, the next time you hear that Chinese are indirect, it would be worth challenging the (49)__________ and pointing out that the (50)__________ comparisons are much more complex. But maybe you should do it in a roundabout way, to be polite.III. Translation1.丰富的工作经验是他能胜任这个岗位。