2014届六校高三年级第三次联考试题

A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too    1    is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration（夸张）, however, does no harm when it shows the person's    2    qualities. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear    3   of oneself. A master packager knows how to combine art and nature perfectly, so that the person so packaged is no commodity but a human being,    4    and lovely.       

A young person,    5    a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any    6    to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however,    7    and goes in a moment of light sleep. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the furrows（皱纹）ploughed by    8   . If you still enjoy life's richness enough to keep self-confidence and    9    pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain.   10   people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life which now    11    at a self-satisfied stage of quietness and calmness. There is no need to turn to hair-dyeing — the    12    mountain in itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks    13    from young to old along with the natural aging process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way around will      14     end in unpleasantness.

As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity establishes its brand by the right    15   .  

1.     A. far                B. strong            C. fast                D. long

2.     A. different     B. unique            C. common        D. ordinary

3.     A. mind            B. knowledge      C. taste                D. sight

4.     A. smart           B. friendly          C. normal            D. lively

5.     A. specially      B. usually            C. typically         D. especially

6.     A. trial              B. way                 C. means             D. attempt

7.     A. comes          B. moves             C. returns            D. flies

8.     A. work            B. hardship         C. time                D. trouble

9.     A. resist           B. improve          C. pursue             D. worry

10.   A. Elderly        B. Energetic        C. Successful      D. Common

11.    A. arrives        B. winds              C. displays         D. runs

12.   A. earth-cappedB. rock-capped   C. tree-capped    D. snow-capped

13.   A. evolve          B. change            C. fade                D. worsen

14.   A. really          B. hardly            C. only               D. rarely

15.   A. advertising  B. packaging       C. promoting      D. decorating