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　　2014年高考东莞市英语临考压轴卷
　　命题者：东莞市教育局教研室 何明
　　审核：  东莞市第十高级中学  沈兆君
　　本试卷共12页，三大题，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。
　　注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。
　　2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
　　3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
　　4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
　　I 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。
　　A company called Rethom Inc. posted an online job listing for a director-of-operations position that on its surface may have seemed like a light job.
　　However, the 24 people who applied for the job shortly found out it was anything but     1    .
　　In video-chat interviews, which the company has posted online,     2     were told by a hiring manager that the job would     3     them to stand all the time and work a     4     of 135 hours per week.
　　To be     5    , they would need to have a bacnd in finance, medicine, and arts of cooking. The     6     manager went on to tell the candidates that there were no     7     and that the workload actually gets more intense during Thanksgiving and Christmas.
　　As for the pay? It’s an annual     8     of, uh, absolutely nothing.
　　Needless to say, the job applicants were pretty     9    . “That's inhuman,” one cried out.
　　But the hiring manager persisted, explaining that billions of people     10    hold the position.
　　That’s because the applicants were unknowingly applying for the job of “mother.”
　　When the hiring manager made this big     11    , the applicants couldn’t help thinking of their own mothers and the impossible     12     they made on behalf of their children.
　　In fact, the hiring manager wasn’t a hiring manager at all, but an actor     13     by the greeting-card company American Greetings. The purpose, of course, was to     14     people of how     15     mothers are so that people will, at the very least, buy a card for Mother’s Day.
　　1. A.weight B.difficult C.easy D.heavy
　　2. A.applicants B.interviewers C.organizers D.editors
　　3. A.force B.require C.urge D.advocate
　　4. A.bacterium B.medium C.maximum D.minimum
　　5. A.modified B.simplified C.qualified D.purified
　　6. A.firing B.hiring C.hiking D.setting
　　7. A.vacations B.publications C.regulations D.educations
　　8. A.trip B.report C.salary D.conference
　　9. A.moved B.excited C.motivated D.annoyed
　　10. A.previously B.currently C.formerly D.curiously
　　11. A.secret B.plan C.reveal D.schedule
　　12. A.greeds B.sacrifices C.victims D.guilts
　　13. A.paid B.scolded C.praised D.blamed
　　14. A.warm B.cure C.inform D.remind
　　15. A.significant B.selfish C.independent D.persistent
　　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者用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。
　　In a small village there lived a lazy Brahmin Ramdas. He would do     16     but daydream the whole day. One sunny afternoon, Ramdas was very hungry.    17     (step) out of his hut, he said, “What a beautiful day!    18     I wish I could go back to sleep! But now, I will have to go out and get my food.”    19     bathing, Ramdas