菁准考整理2020 上海浦东高三英语二模试卷II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent andgrammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Green Spring Renews Life’s PromiseFor me, two of the loveliest words in the English language are “Life persists”. I came acrossthem years ago as a college freshman, sitting in the library on a beautiful spring day, bored, workingon a history paper, I don’t recall (21) _________ I was researching into. Out of nowhere, those twowords came (22) _________ (dance) off the page in a quote by Gandhi, “In the midst of death lifepersists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”After those words (23) _________ (read) again a dozen times, suddenly I was no longer bored.Outside in the sunshine, I kicked off my shoes and danced barefoot across a spring-green lawn.I love spring. And this year, I was especially hungry to see it. Flying home last weekend to LasVegas, after 10 days in California, I looked down on hills that were so green that I (24) _________almost taste them. When I approached Vegas, the green turned a dull desert brown. We landed aftersunset, and the only green to be seen was neon（霓虹灯）.But the next morning, to my surprise, I (25) _________ (awake) to find signs of spring all overmy yard. (26) _________ my absence, all sorts of things had leafed and bloomed. Three days later,I drove to Arizona to visit a friend and get yet another taste of spring seeing the Giants play the A’sin spring traini...
