2016年高考第二轮复习英语（广东版）专题升级训练卷八语言知识及应用（八）(附答案)_高考复习指南

2016年高考第二轮复习英语（广东版）专题升级训练卷八语言知识及应用（八）(附答案)

　　2016年高考第二轮复习英语广东版

　　专题升级训练八　语言知识及应用（八）

　　第一节　完形填空

　　A组

　　Are you a man or a mouse？When people ask this question they want to know whether you think you are a __1__ person or a coward（懦夫）．But you will never really know the answer to this question until you are

　　__2__ in real life.Some people think they are brave but when they come face to face with real __3__，they act like cowards.Others think of themselves as cowards，but when they meet danger，they act like __4__.

　　Lenny had always thought of himself as a __5__ person.He got worried before examinations.He worried about his job and his health.All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy.Then January 5th,2002，a plane __6__ into the Potomac River in Washington.Lenny went to the river to see what was happening.He saw a woman in the __7__ water.Lenny did not feel afraid.He kept very __8__ and did a very courageous thing.He jumped into Potomac，__9__ to the woman，and kept her head above the water.Seventyeight people died that day.Thanks to Lenny，it was not __10__.

　　When you are in a very dangerous __11__ and feel afraid，the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood.This chemical is called adrenalin（肾上腺激素）．With adrenalin in the blood system，you actually feel stronger and stronger and are __12__ to fight or run away.However，when you are __13__ frightened，the body can produce too much adrenalin.When this __14__，the muscles become very hard and you find you can't __15__ at all.You are paralyzed（使无能为力）with fear.That is why when we are very frightened，we sometimes say we are “petrified”；this word comes from a Greek word “petros”，which means “stone”．We are so frightened that we become stonelike.