揭阳市2013—2014学年度高中三年级学业水平考试
英 语
本试卷共三部分，满分135分,考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、考生号、试室号和座位号填写在答题卡上。
2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卷和答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷、答题卷和答题卡一并交回。
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。
Happy memories are pleasant; sad memories are painful. So what helps us remember the good moments and 1 the bad ones? The answer is a mixture of personality, gender（性别） and the
2 someone uses to make sense of their feelings.
Once in a survey, scientists invited seventy-one 3 , 38 women and 33 men, to fill out a questionnaire. From their answers to the 4 ，scientists were able to work out their personalities and more than 100 memories of each person. From analyses of differences between personality and 5 5 , they found that people who were out-going and confident were more likely to 6 6 pleasant experiences than bad ones. People who were sensitive, greedy and selfish tended to 7
think about bad memories. Both men and women with these 8 also recalled more bad memories.
However, the way men and women try to deal with bad memories is quite 9 . For men, to remain optimistic so as to think about a bad memory 10 can lead to recall more pleasant memories, but suppressing（抑制） the bad memories brings neither 11 memories nor bad ones. For women, 12
