广东省惠阳高级中学2014-2015学年高二上学期第二次段考 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。
Success, by any means, is a team sport. I didn’t learn this little detail____1____.There was a time in my life when I thought I needed to know everything. I needed to know how to be a(n) ____2____director, a marketing manager, a boss and so on. This opinion lasted until three things happened: I ____3____. I learned I wasn’t good at everything. And I didn’t have the energy to do everything. Humans are____4____animals and our survival and success depend on our ability to find communities(群体) of people who share our values and____5____.When these communities form, trust____6____. Then the human animal will change into one of those who work for the good of the____7____.So it is the community that has the greater chance of not only survival but also success.
Groups of people make more ____8____decisions than individuals(个人). In other words, asking for help can____9____improve the quality of the decisions we make. There was a time when I had no____10____but to ask for help, things started to____11____ change. After that, I gave up my original belief that I should do everything on my own, which meant that I____12____accepted that there was no way I could do everything. The more____13____I was about my strengths and my____14____,the more people showed up to help me do the things I was not good at. The more willing I am to ask for help, the more I am able to help others. I’ve____15____from working for myself to working for others which, ironically(讽刺性地), has helped me grow as an individual more than I have ever imagined.
1. A. naturally B. exactly
C. easily D. luckily
2. A. curious B. anxious
C. proud D. creative
3. A. succeeded B. promised
C. failed D. admitted
4. A. social B. wild
C. kind D. different
5. A. problems B. beliefs
C. profits D. ideas
6. A. recovers B. discovers
C. survives D. appears
