广东省深圳高级中学2012-2013学年高二下学期期中考试（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各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a 1 wants to borrow some money from you. You say, “I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself.” In fact you are not 2 of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debts and you don’t want to 3 his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this 4 a lie?
Professor Gerald Gullion of the University of Southern California has made a 5 study of lying. According to him, women are better liars than men, 6 when telling a “white lie”, such as a woman at a party telling another woman that she likes her 7 when she really thinks it looks awful. However, this is only one side of the 8 . Other researchers say that men are more 9 to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise which they have no intention of fulfilling. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are 10 to be particularly skilled at: the lie from which the liars hopes to profit or gain in some way.
Research has also been done into the 11 of people’s behavior in a number of small, 12 unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the time, they 13 to move about in their chairs more than usual. To the trained observer they are saying “I wish I were somewhere else now”. They also tend to touch 14 parts of the face more often, in particular the nose. One explanation of this may be that lying causes a slight increase
