广东省揭阳一中、金山中学2014年高三三模联考英语试卷 含解析.docVIP

2013－2014学年度三模联考 英语科试题 命题人：潮州金山中学英语备课组 本试卷共8页，三大题，满分135分。考试时间为120分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、座号写在答题卷密封线内。 2. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答。 3. 答案一律写在答题区域内， 不准使用铅笔和涂改液，不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 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1－15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并将答案涂在答题卡标号为1－15的相应位置上。 How can you tell if someone’s lying? The answer is, they’re probably not. Traditional economics says that people are 1 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 participant 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 if they 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 over half the 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 which makes us play fair, although its 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 financial benefits of 15 . 1. 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. caugh