广东省湛江一中2014年高考临门一脚 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 group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor. They talked about the hot topic--happiness. But soon their conversation turned into complaints about 1 in work and life. ks5u
To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 2 with a large pot of coffee and a 3 of cups --plastic, glass, metal, porcelain (陶瓷), som plain-looking, some very beautiful. The professor told his students to 4 themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in 5 , the professor said, "If you have noticed, all the nice-looking 6 cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is 7 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 8 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup itself adds no 9 to the coffee. ln most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases it even 10 what we drink.”
“What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you 11 went for the best cups.”
Now consider this: life is coffee, the jobs, money, and position in society are the cups, which are just tools to hold and 12 life, and the different types of cups we have don't decide, nor change the quality of life. If we concentrate only on the cups, we will 13 to enjoy the coffee in it. So don't let the cups 14 you...Enjoy the coffee instead."
At these words, the graduates looked at each other in 15 embarrassment.
1. A. pay B. joy C. experience D. stress
2. A. cooked B. took C. returned D. met
3. A. kind B. variety C. suit D. number
4. A. devote B. expose C. help D. addict
