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绝密★启用前 试卷类型：B 汕头市2012年普通高中高三教学质量测评试题英语 ?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～l 5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。 Are you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know whether you think you are a 1 person or a coward(懦夫)．But you will never really know the answer to this question until you are 2 __ in real life．Some people think they are brave but when they come face to face with real 3 __，they act like cowards．Others think of themselves as cowards，but when they meet danger，they act like___4____． Lenny had always thought of himself as a __ 5 __person．He got worried before examinations．He worried about his job and his health．All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy．Then January 5th，2002，a plane 6 into the Potomac River in Washington．Lenny went to the river to see what was happening．He saw a woman in the __7__ water．Lenny did not feel afraid．He kept very 8 and did a very courageous thing．He jumped into Potomac， 9 to the woman，and kept her head above the water．Seventy．eight people died that day．Thanks to Lenny，it was not 10 ． When you are in a very dangerous 11 and feel afraid，the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood．This chemical is called adrenalin(肾上腺素)．With adrenalin in the blood system．you actually feel stronger and stronger and are 12 to fight or run away．However, when you are l3 frightened．the body can produce too much adrenalin．When this 14 ，the muscles become very hard and you find you cant 15 at all．You are paralyzed(使无能为力) with fear．That is why when we are very frightened，we sometimes say we are‘petrified’；this word comes from a Greek word‘petros’，which means‘stone’．We are so frightened that we become stonelike． 1．A．brave B．real C．tough D．certain 2．A．told B．asked C．tested D．examined 3．A．1ife B．question C．mouse D．danger 4．A．soldiers B．mice C．heroes D．cowards 5．A．useful