广东省宝安中学2015年高三模拟考试英语试卷.docVIP

届高三模拟考试 英 语 试 题 命题：宝安中学高三备课组 （陈美红 胡红艳 郑雅婧） 2015.04. 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。September is an exciting month in every college freshman’s life. For many, it’s the first time that they’ve left ____1___ to live in a new environment. But after the hustle and bustle of a few weeks, ____2___ gives way to a less enjoyable emotion— homesickness. Homesickness manifests itself in many ways. You may __3___ mum’s cooking, your pets, or even your old bed. All this becomes a ___4___ memory of the past. Homesickness can be a ____5___ feeling for many students, ____6___ when faced with the challenges of settling into an unfamiliar environment. But remember, you’re not ___7___. According to a recent BBC article, 70 percent of British college students experience homesickness. In this _____8___ globalized world in which more and more people migrate to faraway places for a relationship, education or work, homesickness is a feeling ___9__ by many adults.? Homesickness can have ____10___ symptoms to depression and in extreme cases it can ____11___ into a panic attack. As for the ____12___, homesickness or nostalgia wasn’t invented until the 17th century. It was considered a disorder by a Swiss physician, who attribute soldiers’ mental and physical discomfort to their ___13___ to return home, “nostos” from Greek, and the accompanying pain, “algos”. Studies in recent years, however, have shown that nostalgia may have some ___14___ to our mental health. After a decade of surveys and researches, Constantine Sedikides, a US social psychologist, found that nostalgia is what makes us human. He explains that nostalgia can resist ____15___, boredom and anxiety. Therefore, it’s necessary for college students to learn some ways to overcome the uncomfortable feeling. 1 A. school B. city C. friends D. home 2 A. excitement B. satisfaction C. depression D. anxiety 3 A. judge B. miss C. like D.