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上海青浦区2018届高三英语第二次学业质量调研测试试卷（音频暂未更新）
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Touring Cenotes
My parents and I traveled to Mexico to visit my grandparents last summer, and we visited the cenotes (say-NO-tays), the natural swimming holes located on the Yucatán Peninsula. The term "swimming hole" might make you think that cenotes are just average, but cenotes are truly . I had the most exciting experience of my life exploring these wonders of nature.
Thousands of years old, the cenotes formed and created sinkholes underneath. Though the ancient Mayans (玛雅人) used the cenotes as water , people can now swim, dive, take photographs, and admire local trees and life, all through water as clear as liquid diamond.
In Cenote Azul, my parents, my grandparents, and I swam through water that seemed too blue to be real. I countless younger kids diving into the water from a small cliff, but I dared not to jump at first. I finally worked up the courage, and my try instantly put all my worries to rest.
A few days later, we went to Cenote Ponderosa. We stayed in the sun-covered pond, where we floated while others did diving and took underwater photographs. Being surrounded by a valley of trees made everything else in the world seem to disappear.
Grutas de Loltún were definitely the most magnificent of all the cenotes, even though there was no swimming involved. Grutas are caves, and the Grutas de Loltún are among the biggest caves on the entire Peninsula. Our guide, Carolina, walked us through several caves, where we saw many drawings thousands of years old on the cave walls! Just one brief look at those drawings made me feel like I had stepped back in time to a(n) era of history. Our group thought Carolina was joking when she claimed she could make the stalagmites(石笋) sing for us, but when she them, we heard what sounded like the words "Lol" and "Tun"—the name of the caves! I cannot imagine that a(n) played at a concert at Carnegie Hall would have been any better.
Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula is filled with beauty, but the cenotes are a one-of-a-kind opportunity to commune with nature in a way that is impossible anywhere else on Earth, and I would not to do it all again.
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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.
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The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery was preparing the wall text in 2014 to accompany an image of the boxer Mayweather Jr. During the process, the Washington museum decided to note that Mr. Mayweather had been“charged with domestic violence on several occasions,” receiving “punishments ranging from community service to jail time.”
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“We're very used to having to defend people in the collection, but it's always been for the sitter” rather than the artist, said Kim Sajet, director of the Portrait Gallery, which has a large body of Mr. Close's work. “Now we have to think to ourselves, ‘Do we need to do that about Chuck Close?'”
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