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　　惠州市2015届高三第二次调研考试
　　英 语 试 题
　　2014.10
　　本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。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市（县）/区、学校、班级、
　　姓名、准考证号、试室号和座位号填写在答卡的密封线内。
　　2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案；不能答在试题卷上。
　　3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在另发的答题卷各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；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，请将答题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。
　　Some people thin 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 wort 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