广东梅县东山中学2014届高三第一学期中段考试英语试卷
出题人：第二小组
笔试部分满分135分。考试用时120分钟。（听力15分另计）
Ⅰ语言知识及应用
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A、B、C和D的选项中, 选出最佳选项。
It is known that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day. This is so 1 神秘的) way of knowing the 7 . Their sense of time does not 8 information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”. that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one 2 understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as 3 as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant 4 . We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they 5 do. As a matter of fact, they 6 to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious(
This 9 may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also 10 , including man, have this “inner clock” which 11 the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious 12 . Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food.
In the past, this did not really 13 because people lived in natural condition. In the 14 world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very 15 , then, to know more about the “inner clock”. Such things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves.
1. A. familiar B. strange C. similar D. special
2. A. partly B. personally C. really D. willingly
