2015广东省高考压轴卷英语

第一部分 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually ___1___every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we ____2__ this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were ___3___.

When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is.

Many people think happiness is genetic. That's only half the story, because the average person does not fight their ___4___. When we stop studying the average and begin ___5___ positive outliers(离群值) -- people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence -- a __6____ different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and ___7___.

___8___, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. If you scan for the ___9___ first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded（嵌入） in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an ___10___advantage.

I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on "Happiness Leads to Profits." Based on my article called "Positive Intelligence" and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I ___11___ our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a ___12___ and busy workforce.

A decade of research in the business world ___13___ that happiness raises nearly every business and educational ___14___: increasing sales by 37%， productivity by 31%， and ___15___ on tasks by 19%， as well as a number of health and quality-of-life improvements.

1．A. rises????????????? ????????????? B. Arises????????????? ????????????? C. raises ????? D. realizes

2．A. think????????????? ????????????? B. miss ????????????? ????????????? C. know ??????? D. understand

3．A. usual ????????????? ????????????? B. single ????????????? C. unique ????? D. average

4．A. bodies ????????????? ????????????? B. faces ????????????? C. genes ?????? D. fates

5．A. researching ????????????? B. discovering ? C. finding ??? D. observing

6．A. mildly ????????????? ????????????? B. hardly ????? C. crazily ???? D. wildly

7．A. interest ????????????? B. success ???? C. safety ???? D. failure

8．A. Scientifically B. Fortunately ? C. Gradually ?? D. Strangely

9．A. active ????????????? ????????????? B. passive ????? C. negative ?? D. positive

10．A. interesting B. embarrassing C. annoying ?? D. amazing

11．A. Talked ????????????? B. summarized?? C. thought ?? D. underlined

12．A. silly ????????????? ????????????? B. funny ?????? C. common ? D. happy

13．A. means ????????????? B. proves ??????? C. wishes??? D. hopes

14．A. outcome ????????????? B. answer ??????? C. cause ?? D. reality

15．A. behavior????????????? B. mistake ????? C. accuracy ? D. possession

第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在相应位置上。

Sometimes a thief can lose ??? 1?? (much) than he gains. Once in a supermarket ?? 2?? thief wanted to steal the money out of the till (装钱的盒子). So he went into the shop and put a lot of groceries into his basket.

?? 3?? he reached the counter to pay, he put the groceries down on the counter. The girl started??? 4?? (count) up how much they cost and then she ?? 5?? (show) the thief the price of the groceries. He put down a ten pound note ??? 6? the counter and the girl opened the till ?? 7?? contained all the money. ??? 8 (sudden) the thief grabbed the money and ran leaving the girl? ?? 9?? (hold) the ten pound note. When the police heard about? ?? 10?? they laughed because the till had only contained four pounds fifty and so the thief had lost fifty in his action!

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, "the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls.

The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her morn," I don't know how to use a computer," she admits.

Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says." I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease."

But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she realized she had to grow u p ---again---and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.

Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me?' about something or other," she insists. "It doesn't do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be."

1. Why did Mary feel regretful?

A. She didn't achieve her ambition.

B. She didn't take care of her mother.

C. She didn't complete her high school.

D. She didn't follow her mother's advice.

2, We can know that before 1995 Mary ??????

A. had two books published

B. received many career awards

C. knew how to use a computer

D. supported the JDRF by writing

3. Mary's second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her ??????? .

A. living with diabetes

B. successful show business

C. service for an organization

D. remembrance of her mother

4. When Mary received the life-changing news, she ??????? .

A. lost control of herself ????????????? ????????????? B. began a balanced diet

C. Med to get a treatment ????????????? D. behaved in an adult way

5. What can we know from the last paragraph?

A. Mary feels pity for herself.

B. Mary has recovered from her disease.

C. Mary wants to help others as much as possible.

D. Mary determines to go back to the dance floor.

B

To err is human. To blame the other guy is even more human.

Common sense is not all that common.

Why tell the truth when you can come up with a good excuse?

These three popular misquotes(戏谑的引语)are meant to be jokes, and yet they tell us a lot about human nature .To err, or to make mistakes, is indeed a part of being human, but it seems that most people don’t want to accept the responsibility for the problem. Perhaps it is the natural thing to do .The original quote about human nature went like this:” To err is human, to forgive, divine(神圣的).”This saying mirrors an deal people should be forgiving of others’ mistakes. Instead, we tend to do the opposite –find someone else to pass the blame on to. However, taking responsibility for something that went wrong is a making of great maturity.

Common sense is what we call clear thought. Having common sense means having a good general plan that will make things work well, and it also means staying with the plan. Common sense tells you that you take an umbrella out into a rainstorm, but you leave the umbrella home when you hear a weather forecast for sunshine．Common sense does not seem to be common for large organizations, because there are so many things going on that one person cannot be in charge of everything. People say that in a large company,”the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.”

And what is wrong with a society that thinks that making up a good excuse is like creating a work of art? One of the common problems with making excuses is that people, especially young people. get the idea that it’s okay not to be totally honest all the time. There is a corollary(直接推论)to that: if good excuse is “good”even if it isn’t honest, then where is the place of the truth?

1. According to tile passage, which of following seems the most human?

A. To search for truth．????????? B. To achieve one’s ideal

C. To make fun of others’mistakes．D. To criticize others for one’s own error.

2. According to the author, what is a sign of a man’s maturity?

A．Doing things his own way.

B．Bearing responsibility for his mistakes.

C．Making as few mistakes as possible．

D．Thinking seriously about his wrongdoing.

3. Which of the following is NOT based on common sense?

A．A man tries to take charge of everything in a large company.

B．A student goes out with an umbrella in stormy weather.

C．A company’s next move follows a good plan．

D．A lawyer acts on fine judgments．

4. What is the author’s opinion about a good excuse?

A. Making a good excuse is sometimes a better policy.

B. Inventing a good excuse needs creative ideas.

C. A good excuse is as rewarding as honesty.

D. Bitter truth is better than a good excuse.

5. What would be the best title for his passage?

A. A Mirror of