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2014年高考东莞市英语临考压轴卷 本试卷共12页，三大题，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。 注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分） 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～A company called Rethom Inc. posted an online job listing for a director-of-operations position that on its surface may have seemed like a?light?job. However, the 24 people who applied for the job shortly found out it was anything but 1 . In video-chat interviews, which the company has posted online, 2 were told by a hiring manager that the job would 3 them to stand all the time and work a 4 of 135 hours per week. To?be 5 , they would need to have a background in finance, medicine, and arts of cooking.?The 6 manager went on to tell the candidates that there were no 7 and that the workload actually gets more intense during Thanksgiving and Christmas. As for the pay? It’s an annual 8 of, uh, absolutely nothing. Needless to say, the job applicants were pretty 9 . “Thats inhuman,” one cried out. But the hiring manager persisted, explaining that billions of people 10 hold the position. That’s because the applicants were unknowingly applying for the job of “mother.” When the hiring manager made this big 11 , the applicants couldn’t help thinking of their own mothers and the impossible? 12 ?they made on behalf of their children. In fact, the hiring manager wasn’t a hiring manager at all, but an actor 13 by the greeting-card company American Greetings. The purpose, of course, was to 14 people of how 15 mothers are so that people will, at the very least, buy a card for Mother’s Day. A.weight B.difficult C.easy D.heavy A.applicants B.interviewers C.or