揭阳一中、潮州金山中学2016届第一次联考英语试题及答案(3)

13. The underlined word commit in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by the word_______.
   A. devote      B. determine      C. adjust    D. force
14. When you failed to accomplish your plan last year, you’re advised to ______.
   A. take action instead of writing it down        B. give up the same plan this year
   C. put down the way to realize it               D. stop making any plans
15. According to the passage, which of the following is the best plan?
   A. I will become a millionaire in one month.   
   B. I want to be the champion of the marathon.
   C. I will change all of my bad habits in one week.
D. I will go for a walk after supper in working days.

第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
1000 Hours a Year
Like you, all my email goes into my Sent Mailbox, just sitting there if I want to check back at what I said to whom years ago. So what a surprise to see that I send approximately 18, 250 emails each year (roughly 50 a day). Assuming 3 minutes per email, that’s about 1000 hours a year on email alone. I’ve been on email since the early 90s. ___16___
The answer is both yes and no. Yes, I have been able to keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues in far-away corners of the planet with ease. __17__ But while these undoubted benefits are the reasons why I continue to email, it is not without its own cost. Most importantly, as the above analysis shows, email eats my time just as it likely eats yours.
__18__ Each time a message arrives there’s just the chance that it might contain something exciting, something new, something special, a new opportunity. ___19___ That’s just enough to keep me checking my Inbox. But that means perhaps only 10 of the 1000 hours I spent on emails this year were actually wanted.
Frequent email messages will certainly affect our real work. ___20___ Like other potential addictions we should perhaps attempt to check the email box at certain times of the day, or by creating email-free zones by turning off Wi-Fi. Now I need to think whether I really want to be spending 1000 hours a year on email, at the expense of more valuable activities.
A. Was that time well spent?
B. All this feeds my continued use of email.
C. Do you spend 1000 hours on emails every year?
D. And we all recognize that email has its addictive side.
E. Email uses technology to communicate a digital message over the Internet.
F. Maybe one in 100 emails contain something I really want to know or hear about.
G. Becoming aware of what email is doing to our allocation of time is the first step to re-gaining control.

第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
Even as I write this story, I am still smiling. The past few weeks have been rather   21    , but when a large number of Smile Cards arrived in my   22   the other day, having traveled all the way from the United States to my home in the Netherlands, I knew things were about to    23     .
I     24     where to leave the cards as I went to bed that night: the train, benches at the station, at work, libraries, mailboxes, the gym - the possibilities were   25    
I woke up, went to work, and afterwards, I went     26     to the shop to buy some candy bars, planning to leave them as anonymous(匿名的)    27     for people on the train. However,  28    my early morning train, my train home was extremely crowded. An elderly man must have seen me searching for a place to    29     a Smile Card, because he asked me if I was looking for something.
Right then I    30     that my first Smile Card would not be anonymous. With a big smile and cheeks    31   with excitement, I told him that I    32   what I was looking for,    33    him the candy bar and Smile Card I had in my hands. He had only just finished reading the card    34        I arrived at my stop, but he was still smiling and    35   his candy as I waved at him from the    36    .
Despite having worked a full day, I almost bounced(跳) home. Before I entered my   37  , I delivered a few more Smile Cards and candy bars to my neighbors’ mailboxes. I added an    38     candy bar for a neighbor who I knew was in a difficult financial    39  , but who I saw working hard every day to get the very best for her young son. I figured they both    40     a tasty little treat.
21.  A. pleasant B. simple    C. tough D. common
22.  A. office      B. room            C. mailbox      D. hands
23.  A. turn away B. turn around    C. turn up      D. turn down
24.  A. required  B. asked    C.realized        D. wondered
25.  A.important B.small     C. specific     D. endless