2008年高考英语试题及参考答案(上海卷)(4)

35. Something as simple as ______some cold water may clear your mind and relieve pressure.

A. to drink B. drinking C to be drinking D. drunk

36. It has been proved ______eating vegetables in childhood helps to protect you against serious illnesses in later life.

A. if B. because C. when D. that

37. Ideally ______for Broadway theatres and Firth Avenue, the New York Park hotel is a favourite with many guests.

A. locating B. being located C. having been located D. located

38. We went through a period ______communications were very difficult in the rural areas.

A. which B. whose C. in which D. with which

39. So much of interest ______that most visitors simply run out of time before seeing it all.

A. offers Beijing B. Beijing offers

C. does Beijing offer D. Beijing does offer

40. ______well prepared you are, you still need a lot of luck in mountain climbing.

A. However B. Whatever C. No matter D. Although

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass's personal possessions, had undergone a three-year (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don't have to live in the nation's capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he to bold a government office — as US minister and consul general (总领事) to Haiti.

As a youth, be never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. runaway slaves at a time.

He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass witnessed the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution (美国宪法修正案), which African-Americans the right to vote.