2015年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(广东卷)英语仿真模拟题(五)
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。
The food we eat has profound effects on our health. We are what we ___1_______, as the saying goes. Although science has made enormous _____2_____ in making food more suitable to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods _____3_____ to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses relate to ____4______ and forty percent of cancer has something to do with the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more likely to cause different illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.
That food is connected with illness is not a new _____5_____. In 1945, about 35 years ago, government researchers realized that nitrates(硝酸盐), commonly used to _____6____ color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic(致癌的) addictives remain in our food, and it becomes more _____7______ all the time to know which things on the packaging labels (标签) of processed food are helpful or ______8____ because the additives which we eat are not at all so ____9_____. Farmers often give penicillin(青霉素) to beef and living animals, and because of this, penicillin has been ____10______ in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are given to animals not for medical purposes, but for ____11____ reasons. The farmers are ___12____ trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried ___13_____ to bring these procedures under control, the practices ____14_____. Therefore, for the sake of the health of people, the government and people concerned still have a long long way to go to stop such __15___ acts.
1. A. have B. eat C. want D. possess
2. A. profits B. advancement C. preparations D. possibility
3. A. unsure B. unable C. unfit D. unreasonable
4. A. diet B. culture C. science D. effect
5. A. treatment B. design C. method D. discovery
6. A. pretend B. preserve C. prefer D. prevent
7. A. uneasy B. comfortable C. difficult D. simple
8. A. nutritious B. beneficial C. healthy D. damaging
9. A. direct B. indirect C. unclear D. easy
10. A. felt B. found C. told D. lost
11. A. beneficial B. scientific C. financial D. educational
12. A. quickly B. nearly C. fairly D. simply
