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　　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 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
　　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。
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