广东省汕头二中2012届高三第五次阶段考试试题(英语).docVIP

广东省汕头二中2012届高三第五次阶段考试试题（英语） I 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,D项中选出最佳选项。 One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is 1 . Once I heard a bald man said, “Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair.” Once you’ve 2 what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will 3 make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different 4 , or forget about it and 5 the tiles in your life that are not missing. We all know people who have had a relatively 6 life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy. The first 7 is gratitude. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to 8 , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. The second secret is awareness. We should 9 that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most obvious 10 are those pursuits that give our lives purpose---anything from studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are 11 to experience. Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our 12 has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We need a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy is, it should 13 this truth: if you choose to find the 14 in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this 15 depends on your decision to make. 1 A. different B. missing C. short D. broken 2 A. determined B. predicted C. assumed D. imagined 3 A. completely B. naturally C. hopefully D. really 4 A. tile B.