广东省中山市华侨中学2014届高三上学期第四次模拟考试英语试题
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ABC和D项中，选出最佳选项，并填写在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we come to realize that those challenges are the very things that __1______ us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with __2______.
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two __3______. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing __4______ the challenge isn’t worth the __5______ and call it quits. Although there are __6______ times when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most __7______ all that is needed is __8______ and communication.
When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how __9______ or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to __10_____ it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a __11______ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. If you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.” rather than “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much __12______.
In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for what they are: small hurdles you need to jump or get through on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is __13______ to get over, and hurt only __14_______ to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it __15______ to everyone, and some day you will look back to all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it makes me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”
1．A．design B．promote C．direct D．shape
2．A．confidence B．friendship C．pressure D．difficulty
3．A．opportunitiesB．expectationsC．choices D．aspects
4．A．demanding B．deserving C．predicting D．presenting
