广东省东莞市2014年高考临考压轴卷 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 background 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
