2014届惠州市高三第一次调研考试试题英 语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115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。 What is the secret of tough people that makes them succeed? Why do they 1 the tough times when others are overcome by them? Why do they win when others lose? The 2 is very simple. Its all how they feel their problems. Yes, every living person has problems. A problem-free life is an illusiona mirage in the desert. 3 that fact. Every mountain has a peak. Every valley has its low point. Life has its ups and downs, its peaks and its 4 . No one is up all the time, nor are they down all the time. Problems do 5 . They are all solved in time. You may not be able to control the times, but you can compose your response. The 6 is up to you. You may not have chosen your tough time, but you can choose how you will 7 to it. For instance, what is the positive reaction to a terrible financial setback? In this situation would it be the positive reaction to escape? Escape through alcohol or drug? No! Such 8 reactions only produce greater problems by promising a temporary solution to the pressing problem. The positive 9 to a problem may require courage to initiate it. When you control your reaction to the seemingly un-controllable problem of life, then in fact you do 10 the problems effect on you. Whether your reaction can make you 11 or tough, better or bitter all depends on you. Thats the bottom line. In the final analysis, the tough people surviving the tough times do so because theyve chosen to react 12 to their trouble. Tough times never 13 , but tough people do. Tough people stick it out. History 14 us that every problem has a life limit. No problem is lasting. Storms always give way to the sun. Winter always melts into springtime. Your 15 will be solved.1.AliveBfightCsurviveDstand2.AanswerBquestionCwayDidea3.ARefuseBReceiveCAcceptDReject4.ApointsBsummitCmountainsDvalleys5.AlastBendCbeginDstart6.AchoiceBruleClawDeffect7.AretellBreactCrepeatDreform8.ApositiveBeffectiveCactiveDnegative9.AsurvivalBconclusionCsolutionDpromise10.AcontrolBmakeChaveDget11.AeasierBtenderCstrongerDhealthier12.AnegativelyBhardlyCpositivelyDunwillingly13.AstopBlastCcomeDgo14.AteachesBlearnsCencouragesDexperiences15.AdreamBproblemCpuzzleDregret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，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1625的相应位置上。 The first time you meet someone, in the first moment you form an impression in your mind of that person. Your reactions to other people, 16 ,are really just barometers(晴雨表) for how you feel yourself, 17 (say) more about you than they do about others. You cannot really love or hate about yourself. Usually we 18 (draw)to those who are most like us and tend to dislike those who display those aspects of ourselves that we dislike. Therefore, you can allow others to be the mirror 19 you to see more clearly your own feelings of self-worth. Also, you can view the people you judge negatively as mirrors to show you 20 you are not accepting about yourself. To live together 21 (peace) with others, you will need to learn tolerance. A big challenge is to shift your idea completely from judgment of others to 22 lifelong exploration of yourself. Your task is to assess all the 23 (decide), judgments you make onto others and to begin to view 24 as clues to how you can heal yourself and become whole. When you approach life in this manner, those with 25 you have the greatest dislikes as well as those you admire and love can be seen as mirrors, guiding you to discover parts of yourself that you reject and to embrace your greatest quality.II 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 In Eritrea, a small country in northeast Africa, approximately 80 percent of the population is illiterate. That percentage is even higher in woman. As in many developing countries, many Eritreans have traditional ideas about the role of women. They believe that women should stay home and take care of the family and should not get an education or look for a job. These beliefs are one of the factors that prevent Eritrea and other developing countries from improving their economic situati