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第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分,满分30分)
【题文】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。
Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually ___1___every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we ___2___ this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were ___3___.When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is.
Many people think happiness is genetic. That's only half the story, because the average person does not fight their ___4___. When we stop studying the average and begin ___5___ positive outliers(离群值) -- people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence -- a ___6___ different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and ___7___.
___8___, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. If you scan for the ___9___ first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded（嵌入） in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an ___10___advantage.
I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on "Happiness Leads to Profits." Based on my article called "Positive Intelligence" and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I ___11___ our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a ___12___ and busy workforce.
A decade of research in the business world ___13___ that happiness raises nearly every business and educational ___14___: increasing sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and ___15___ on tasks by 19%, as well as a number of health and quality-of-life improvements.
1 A. rises B. arises C. raises D. realizes
2 A. think B. miss C. know D. understand
3 A. usual B. single C. unique D. average
4 A. bodies B. faces C. genes D. fates
5 A. researching B. discovering C. finding D. observing
6 A. mildly B. hardly C. crazily D. wildly
7 A. interest B. success C. safety D. failure
8 A. Scientifically B. Fortunately C. Gradually D. Strangely
9 A. active B. passive C. negative D. positive
10 A. interesting B. embarrassing C. annoying D. amazing
11 A. talked B. summarized C. thought D. underlined
12 A. silly B. funny C. common D. happy
13 A. means B. proves C. wishes D. hopes
14 A. outcome B. answer C. cause D. reality
15 A. behavior B. mistake C. accuracy D. possession
第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分,满分15分)
【题文】阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。Once upon a time, there was a gang of evil goblins（小妖精) who lived in a forest. They spent a lot of their time__16 (make) fun of a poor old man who could now hardly move, see, or hear. They showed no respect for __17 age.
The situation became so extreme that Great Wizard （男巫） decided to teach the goblins __18__ lesson. He cast a spell , and from that moment, every insult（侮辱）___19 _was directed at the old man made the old man better, __20 _ had the opposite effect on the goblin who was doing the insulting. Of course, the goblins knew nothing about 21__ was happening. The more they called the man an “old fool”, the__22 (young) of mind he became, while the goblin who __23__(shout )at him aged rapidly, and became a little more foolish.
As time went on, those evil goblins were becoming terribly old , ugly, stupid, and clumsy __24__ even realizing it. Finally, the Great Wizard allowed the goblins to see themselves, and__25__ (surprise)they saw that they had turned into the disgusting creatures we now know as trolls（巨魔）.
