2017届上海英语高考11选10专项练习(八套).docxVIP

2017?届上海英语高考?11?选?10?专项练习 A：sailors G:?surrounded B:?barking H:?plunging C:?locked I:?mind D:?breaking J:?climate E:?wilderness K:?obvious F:?discover The?Vernadsky?scientific?base?–?a?handful?of?grey?huts?________1_________?by?penguins?in Antarctica?–?was?once?home?to?some?of?the?world’s?most?important?_________2________?science.?It was?here,?in?1985,?that?British?scientists?did?some?of?the?key?work?to?_________3________?the?hole?in the?ozone?layer.?But?today,?it’s?home?to?something?altogether?different:?the?closest?thing?Antarctica?has to?a?rock?star,?a?44-year-old?long-haired?Ukrainian?geophysicist?called?Bogdan?Gavrylyuk. “Here?it’s?a?special?place?for?writing?songs,”?he?says,?standing?in?his?laboratory,?where?musical instruments are propped up among the scientific equipment. “We’re like prisoners, ________4_________?up?for?10?months?in?the?cold.?Alone!?But?it?creates?a?special?mood. “I?write?all?kinds?of?songs:?about?pirates?and?gangsters;?about?_________5________?hard?at work;?about?the?salty,?sweet?taste?of?kisses;?about?hope?and?love.?I?can’t?write?about?those?things?back in?Ukraine?–?there’s?too?much?noise.”?When?you?visit?Antarctica,?music?isn’t?the?first?thing?that?comes to?________6_________.?One?of?the?most?striking?things?about?it?is?its?very?lack?of?sound. There?are?no?revving?cars,?or?people?__________7_______?into?mobile?phones.?There?aren’t even?trees?for?the?wind?to?rustle.?You?only?hear?sounds?in?snatches?–?when?you?stumble?into?the?middle of?a?penguin?colony,?or?the?ice?cracks?and?sends?part?of?a?glacier?_________8________?into?the?ocean. That?silence?may?seem?________9_________:?Antarctica?is?the?world’s?last?_____?_____10_______,?a continent?of?over?5.4?million?sq?miles?(14?million?sq?km),?almost?all?of?it?under?ice.?But?nothing?can prepare?you?for?the?strangeness?of?it. A:?misfortune B:?qualified G:?captured H:?scored C:?meaning I:?fullest D:?origin J:?loneliness E:?unstoppable??F:?sounding K:?wildfire Chinese?netizens?are?known?for?