高三下册英语试卷2014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。

How can you tell if someone's lying? The answer is, they're probably not.

Traditional economics says that people are _1    human beings who will lie if it's to their advantage. A recent university study has shown that, actually, we're pretty _ 2   --especially when we're  at home.

Researchers in Germany   3    people at home and asked them to toss(投掷) a coin. There was a strong    4    incentive(刺激) to lie about the result: if the coin landed tails-up, the participants  would receive money, while if the coin landed heads-up, they would get nothing. Because they were  on the phone, they knew there was no     5 _ of getting caught ifthey lied.

And yet people told the     6    . Over hundreds of tosses, a coin will land tails-up about 50% of the time. In this    7    0ver halfthe people asked (55.6%) said that the coin landed heads-up, which meant they would receive nothing.

Previous studies had found that people were more    8   . In those laboratory studies, 75% of people reported a - 9   coin and asked for a reward. So the research team thinks it's being in our own homes that makes us play fair, although it's not yet clear why.

In fact both types of study show people are surprisingly    10   . Even in the laboratory, 25% of people    11    a reward by telling the truth. The researchers say this is because honesty is    12  valued in human society.We care about our    13    and our sense of ourselves as decent(体面的) people. So lying has a psychological   14   and it seems this cost is more important than the

financialbenefits of   15   .

l.A.poor            B.kind             C.generous          D.reasonable

2.A. honest          B. strict            C. calm             D. afraid

3.A.visited          B.saw              C.phoned           D.caught

4. A. mental         B. financial         C. technical          D. educational

5.A.idea             B.need            C.evidence           D.risk

6.A.difference        B.truth             C.story             D.secret

7.A.case             B.interview         C.speech            D.study

8. A. faithful         B. grateful          C. disappointed       D. dishonest

9.A.missing          B.losing            C.winning           D.shining

l0.A.reliable          B.greedy            C.brave             D.wealthy

ll.A.received          B.refused            C.won              D.required

12.A.highly           B.normally          C.formally           D.poorly

13.A.money          B.family             C.jobs              D.reputation

14.A. reason          B. effect             C. cost             D. function

15. A. studying        B. lying             C. phoning          D. reporting

笫二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为16~25的相应位置上。

Nearly all of us have dreamed about winning the big prize in a lottery(彩票).We dream about  1 6    we would do with the money, but we rarely stop to think about how the money would change us.

For most of us, our way of life is closely linked    17    0ur economic circumstances. The

different parts of    1 8    lives fit together like a jigsaw(拼板)-work, home, friends, hobbies, and sports make up our world.    19    sudden fortune would change it all and break the jigsaw. For example, most people like the idea    20    not having to work, but winners have found that without work there is no reason to get up in the morning. It seems great    2 1    (move) to a bigger house in a wealthy area,    22    if you do that, you leave old friends behind.

Usually, winners    23    (advise) not to publicize their address and phone number, but begging letters still arrive.    24    they are not careful, most of their money will be spent on the    25   (protect) of their homes and swimming pools and their sanity!

II阅读(共两节，满分50分)