湛江一中2016届11月月考英语试题及答案(3)

A. To warn people not to set long-term goals.
B. To ask people to appreciate what they have.
C. To teach people how to hold a positive attitude.
D. To inform people of the importance of comparison.

第二节 （共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
    根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Once you’ve decided what’s really important to you, you still need some practical suggestions to help you organize your time more efficiently. The following five time management tips will be very helpful for you.
Never do everything at a time.    16    For other activities that simply need to be done, you’d better see if you can spend less time on them. It may be possible to put some of these off for days, or even weeks, while you focus on the things that really matter.
  17    The greater control you have over a goal, the greater your chance of reaching it is. For example, you need to have more control over increasing your skills at a certain job than over becoming president of your company.
Keep track of your time.    18    How much time is being lost on unimportant activities? Where do most of your interruptions come from? Do you occur during certain time periods or on specific days of the week? Once you have this information, it will be easier for you to arrange your time next time.
Expect the unexpected. You need make plans in your life.    19    And allow for the unexpected. If you need to be somewhere and you think you can make it in 15 minutes, allow 25. Leave some blocks of time throughout the day unscheduled so that you have a buffer (缓冲) against the unexpected.
Take periodic breaks. I use applied focus sessions in which I do 45 minutes of focused effort, followed by 15 minutes of something else. After 45 minutes, our ability to focus begins to become weak.    20    This is often when my best ideas come to mind and I end up feeling re-energized and ready to make things happen.
A. Set realistic goals.
B. However, don’t make yourself too busy.
C. You’ll never know until you give them a try.
D. Focus on activities that bring important results.
E. I like to do my most challenging tasks early in the day.
F. I use those 15 minutes for walking around, getting a drink, and so on.
G. Find out where your time is going and try to keep a time journal for a week.

第二部分 英语知识运用 （共两节,满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第21—40 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
Though giant pandas may appear perfectly happy chewing bamboos, scientists recently discovered that they would rather have something sweeter. Scientists chose   21   because the animals are herbivores (食草动物), which would mean that they would love sweets.   22  , the plant they choose, the bamboos, has a very   23   sugar content and is therefore not considered sweet. Could this mean that pandas have   24   their hobby for sweet things?
The pandas were given six kinds of sweet liquids that are   25   found in fruits and vegetables. They were also given   26   at the same time. In each of the   27   tests, the animals   28   the natural sweeter liquids and ignored the water completely. They ate up all the sweet liquids and the water was left   29  .
What was even more interesting is that when the scientists__30__the water with five different man-made sweeteners, ones that humans find delicious, the pandas were not as   31  . In these tests, they picked the water   32  . The scientists believe that it could be either because pandas found them to be too   33   or not sweet enough and that the mixture could not   34   the pandas.
The scientists were not too   35   by the results, since pandas in zoos have always shown a preference for   36   like apples, sweet potatoes and even moon cakes. Scientists believe that the pandas may have once   37   sweeter foods that were available in the lowland areas that they used to live in. But   38   human settlement in the lowland areas   39   them to the bamboo forests in the mountains, they had no   40   but to settle for the
almost sugarless plants.
21. A. horses  B. bears  C. monkeys  D. pandas
22. A. Moreover B. And C. However D. Still
23. A. high  B. low  C. simple   D. different
24. A. lost  B. followed  C. started  D. kept
25. A. specially  B. hardly  C. rarely D. naturally
26. A. water  B. fruits  C. bamboos  D. oxygen
27. A. smell B. hearing C. sight D. taste
28. A. picked  B. hid  C. rejected  D. shared
29. A. unfolded  B. untouched  C. undone  D. unmoved
30. A. exchanged  B. covered  C. mixed  D. replaced
31. A. funny  B. picky  C. perfect  D. interested
32. A. instead B. though C. yet D. nevertheless
33. A. salty  B. sour  C. sweet  D. hot
34. A. harm  B. save  C. attract  D. change
35. A. delighted   B. concerned  C. disappointed  D. surprised
36. A. fruits     B. treats C. vegetables D. drinks
37. A. enjoyed    B. disliked  C. controlled  D. ignored
38. A. before  B. although C. because D. when