广东省肇庆市2015届高三毕业班第一次统一检测 英语试题
I、语言知识及运用 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完型填空（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。
Who hasn’t felt lonely or sad at times? We all have days when we feel down or overwhelmed with life, and we may even go through periods when we have a really 1 case of the blues. If we take a closer look, however, there’s often an identifiable(可识别的) 2 behind those feelings: a loss, an emotional or physical blow of some kind.
Grief over the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, or some other type of extreme 3 may cause us to feel a bit hopeless and miserable 4 . Having those sad feelings doesn’t 5 mean we’re depressed(抑郁的)-----it might just be our normal and understandable reaction to life’s hardships.
So how do we know if we, or someone we care about, are suffering from 6 rather than just ordinary sadness? It’s not always easy to tell the 7 . The short, quick answer is that sadness is a temporary emotion, 8 with a identifiable cause, while depression 9 for longer periods of time; sometimes forever, and often for no 10 reason.
Recognizing depression can be extremely 11 . There are many signs of this condition that you may have not considered, and to make it even harder, the signs and symptoms 12 greatly from person to person, as does the severity. Worse, it’s harder to 13 the signs when you are in the midst of depression already, which is why other people often notice before the depressed individual does.
If left untreated, depression can worsen, causing the gradual destruction of life and 14 life threatened. Proper diagnosis(诊断) and 15 is the only way to defeat depression -----it won’t go away on its own.
1．A. simple B. different C. tough D. comfortable
2．A. effect B. cause C. condition D. result
3．A. incident B. sorrow C. hardship D. failure
4．A. temporarily B. permanently C. gently D. frequently
5．A. luckily B. actually C. exactly D. necessarily
