广东省惠州市届高月次调研考试英语试题.docVIP

惠州市2015届高三第二次调研考试 英 语 试 题 Ⅰ 语言知识及应用(共两节满分5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和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually ___1___every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we ___2___ this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were ___3___. When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is. 　　Many people think happiness is genetic. Thats only half the story, because the average person does not fight their. When we stop studying the average and begin ___5___ positive outliers(离群值) -- people who are above average for a positive like optimism or intelligence -- a ___6___ different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and ___7___. 　, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. If you scan for the ___9___ first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded（嵌入） in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an ___10___advantage. 　I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on Happiness Leads to Profits. Based on my article called Positive Intelligence and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I ___11___ our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a ___12___ and busy workforce. A decade of research in the business world ___13___ that happiness raises nearly every business and educational ___14___: increasing sales by 37%， productivity by 31%， and on tasks by 19%， as well as a of health and quality-of-life improvements. 1 A. rises B. arises C. raises D. realizes 2 A. think B. miss C. know D. understand 3 A. usual B. single C. unique D. average 4 A