[名校联盟]广东省湛江一中2011-2012学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题

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A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题字母涂黑。 One of the most remarkable things about the human mind is our ability to imagine the future. In our 1 we can see what has not yet happened．For example, while we are looking forward to visiting a new place or country, we 2 what it will be like. We predict the 3 people will eat, dress and act. Of course, we do not always predict things correctly. Things are often very different from the way we 4 them to be. One of the 5 dreams in history is the dream of the German scientist, Kekule, who had been 6 to work out a very difficult problem in physics. He had 7 and analyzed the problem from every angle for days, but there seemed to be no way of 8 out the answer. Then one night he went to bed and dreamed．When he 9 up, he realized that he knew the answer. He had solved the problem in his 10 . The hypnotist(催眠者) sat in the ch