普陀区2018-2019学年度第一学期期末质量监控试卷

高三英语

（满分140分，完卷时间120分钟） 2018.12

I. Listening Comprehension （略）

II. Grammar and vocabulary

Section A 10%

The Best Book I've Ever Read

Frankly, I have read nearly all of the great works of literature, but no book has ever impressed me as deeply or directly (21)________ Joel Stein's Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masendinity.

Haven't we all, on some level, been Jewish boys in New Jersey in (22)________ 1970s with only female friends, an Easy-Bake oven and a strong preference for show tunes? Haven't we all had a panic attack (23)________ learning we're going to have a son, since that means we're going to have to figure out how to throw footballs, watch other people throw footballs and decide (24)________ to be happy or sad about the results of football throwing? Haven't we all then tried to correct our lack of maleness by becoming a man, fighting fires with firefighters, (25)________ (drive) a Lamborghini and doing three days of Army training camp? I know I have.

The only parts I didn't fully enjoy were (26)________ in which the author suffered horribly. After just three hours of training camp, he fainted weakly into the arms of a soldier. The film rights to Man Made have already been sold to Fox, and I hope it gets (27)________ (turn) into a movie with George Clooney playing the Stein role, since they remind me so much of each other.

(28)________ this is only Stein's first book, I would already consider him as someone like David Sedaris, Dave Barry, James Thurber, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. I (29)________ (recommend) Man Made not just to all my friends and family but also to strangers on Twitter over and over again. My one fear is (30)________ after this great achievement, Stein will lose his ability to be a cruel critic of our shallow times.