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2014届高三英语二轮专题精品卷：完形填空和语法填空（5） 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各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。 One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is 1 . Once I heard a bald man said, “Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair.” Once you’ve 2 what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will 3 make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different 4 , or forget about it and 5 the tiles in your life that are not missing. We all know people who have had a relatively 6 life, yet are essentially unhappy, while people who have suffered a great deal generally remain happy. The first 7 is gratitude. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to 8 , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. The second secret is awareness. We should 9 that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most obvious 10 are those pursuits ( 追求) that give our lives purpose---anything from studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are 11 to experience. Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our 12 has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We need a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy is, it should 13 this truth: if you choose to find the 14 in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this 15 depends on your decision to make. 【文章大意】本文叙述了幸福的秘诀。第一个秘诀是要学会感激，经常抱怨会带来更多的不愉快；第二个秘诀是要认识到你投入的情感越多，你获得幸福越多；最后要有自己的人生哲理，在任何情况下无论遇到什么，都要祝福自己。其实，幸福本身完全取决于你自己的决定。 1. A. different B. short C. missing