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。
As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine(常规)basis. As a matter of fact, we can see this 1 at work in people of all ages. For example, on Christmas morning, children are 2 about playing with their new toys. But their 3 soon wears off and by January those same toys can be found put away in the basement. The world is full of 4 stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone’s 5 interest. When parents bring home a pet, their child 6 bathes it and brushes its fur. Within a 7 time, however, the burden of caring for the animal is handed over to the parents. Adolescents enter high school with great excitement but are soon looking forward to 8 . The same is true of the young adults going to college. And then, how many 9 , who now complain about the long drives to work, 10 drove for hours at a time when they first 11 their driver’s license ? Before people retire, they usually 12 to do a lot of 13 things, which they never had time to do while working. But soon after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes (消遣) become as boring as the jobs they 14 . And, like the children in January, they go searching for “new 15 ” .
