2015年高考仿真模拟试卷·广东卷（四） 英语
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。
(2015年广东省茂名市高三第二次模拟考试) Asia has long tradition of tea-drinking. And China is no exception.
However, lately more and more Chinese people are turning to a different 1 . Coffee has become a/an 2 popular choice of Chinese people living abroad and in the country's 3 cities. In big cities such as Beijing, coffee shops seem to be on nearly every major street corner. These 4 are not just selling drinks from Starbucks, the world-famous coffee company. Coffee businesses from South Korea and Britain are also 5 in China.
Many young Chinese people drink coffee 6 -- when meeting with friends. Yang Lin lives in the U.S. but comes from an area in China 7 for growing tea. She used to 8 drink tea while in China. But now, she says, she drinks both and for different reasons.
Yang Lin says she was a tea drinker when she was back in China. But she likes coffee and tea 9 now. Drinking coffee for her is a social event. She and her co-workers like to sit in a café and talk over a cup of coffee. Tea, she says, is more about family 10 . She grew up in Fujian province -- an area known for its tea. Ms. Yang says that as a child, her family would 11 together in the evening and talk about the day's events over a steaming pot of tea. So now, 12 the smell of Fujian tea brings back these 13 family memories.
On average a person in China drinks about five cups of coffee a year. This information comes from the China Coffee Association Beijing. That 14 is far below the world average of 240 cups a year. But the association says the amount of coffee that Chinese drink is 15 by about 15 percent every year.
1. A. business B. drink C. attitude D. custom
2. A. abnormally B. necessarily C. thoroughly D. increasingly
3. A. huge B. ancient C. remote D. conservative
4. A. cities B. companies C. shops D. foreigners
5. A. producing B. earning C. operating D. struggling
6. A. passively B. deliberately C. elegantly D. socially
7. A. famous B. appropriate C. anxious D. beneficial
8. A. seldom B. only C. unwillingly D. never
