2015年高考英语模拟试题
Section A
(A)
Mayday is (25) emergency code word. It is used around the world in voice communications. You might see a war movie in which an airplane has been hit by rocket fire. The pilot gets on his radio and (26) (call) "mayday, mayday, mayday" to tell (27) his plane is in danger of cras-hing to the ground. Mayday has nothing to do with the month of May. It comes from the French ex-pressions"venez m'aider," or "m'aidez," which mean "help me." Frederick Stanley Mockford (28) (creat) the mayday call signal in the nineteen twenties. Mockford was a radio officer at Croydon Airport in London. He (29) (ask) to think of a word that could be used in an emergency. The word had to be easily understood by all pilots and airport workers. Much of the air traffic at that time was (30) Croydon Airport and Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France. So he proposed the word mayday. Today, many groups use the word to mean a life-threatening emergency. The call is always given three times (31) (prevent) mistaking it for some similar sounding wor-ds.
(B)
(have) a positive way of organizing your thoughts allows you to create your own luck in everyday life. Here are some (33) tips for creating your own luck. Focus On What You Want (34) you focus on, you tend to get more of. Have you ever broken a limb, and suddenly noticed how many other people there were walking around on crutches or with plaster casts? It w-asn’t that there were suddenly more people having accidents, it was that you were noticing them more because that’s what you (35) (pay) attention to. Many people spend time thinking about what they don’t want—and, lo and behold, that same horrible stuff keeps showing up in their lives. If you pay attention to what you do want instead, you’ll end up (36) (become) more aware of avenues to getting it. Be Flexible Closed-minded people do not often come up with solutions, they see only one way of achieving something, and if that does not work out, they just give up. If you open your mind to alternative options and possibilities, you will find that things start working out where you thought they wouldn’t. It seems like luck, but it’s your open-mindedness and flexibi-lity that allowed it to happen. Be Determined Many celebrities, tycoons and business owners are called lucky, with everyone assuming that they got a break to be (38) they are now. But often success is down to determination (39) luck. If you work hard and do the right things, it will be acknowledged, and you (40) (reward) with more luck in everyday life.
Section B
Freda Bright says, "Only in opera do people die of love." It's true. You really can't love somebody to death. I've known people to die from no love, but I've never known anyone to be loved to death. We just can't love one another (41) .A heart-warming story tells of a woman who (42) decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt nervous and (43) . Late in the afternoon she summoned the courage to approach her employer. To her delight, the bos-s agreed to a raise. The woman arrived home that evening to a beautiful table set with their be