上海市七宝中学 2020 届高三英语上学期期中试题（含解析）Ⅱ. GrammarDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in he blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blanks with the proper form of the given word; for the blanks,use one word that best fits each blank.When I worked part-time in a local bookstore at my early age -- so easily - pictured, if you do not work in one, as a kind of paradise where not only ____1____ one read his own favorite books but also encounter charming young ladies (one of my personal fantasies) who browse eternally among Toni Morrison or Ernest Hemingwast thing that chiefly struck me was that really bookish people are a rarity, ____2____ there are vast numbers of those who consider themselves to be such. Often they will introduce themselves when they enter the bookshop ____3____ ‘book people’ and insist on telling you that ‘we love books’. They will wear T-shirts or carry bags with slogans explaining exactly how much they think they adore books. It is clear that the was they dress themselves is quite similar to that of us bookish people, but that is ____4____ the similarities between them and us begin and end. And ____5____ (sure) means of identifying them is that they never, ever buy books.These days it is so rare that I find time to read that, when I do, it feels like indulgence, more so than any, other sensory experience. When an important relationship in my twenties ____6____ (break) up the only thing I could do was to read, and I amassed a pile of books ___7___ I sank and escaped from the world around me and inside me. The landscapes of Yu Hua, Wang Shou, Ernest Hemingway,...
