广东省湛江市2014-2015学年高二下学期期末考试 英语试题
I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分55分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally
1 them and the job they do ─ although there are certain people who do not believe that the police should have that power．
What does a policeman 2 do? It is not a(n) 3 job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs to do. A policeman often has to 4 traffic, either on foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads． 5 , in Britain, he might even be in the Traffic Police and spend a lot of his time 6 up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop 7 motorists and help when there is an accident．
A policeman has to help keep the 8 , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we 9 the police to come and restore order. And they often have to
10 situation at great risk of their own 11 ．
We expect the police to solve 12 , of course, so a(n) 13 policeman, even if he is not a detective (侦探), will often have to help 14 for and arrest criminals．
And who do we call when there is an emergency ─ an air crash, a burning 15 , a road accident, or a robbery? We call the 16 . So a policeman has to be 17 to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the modern world．
The police do an absolutely 18 job. They do it 19 well and I support them, but I do not envy policemen, I do not think that I could ever do the job of a 20 ．
1. A. envy B. appreciate C. join D. dislike
2. A. naturally B. hardly C. actually D. occasionally
3. A. easy B. funny C. interesting D. pleasant
4. A. reduce B. control C. solve D. create
5. A. Sadly B. Happily C. Thus D. Indeed
