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1、2023年沾化县考研英语一高分冲刺试卷Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)It was August 2nd, 1927. The news had spread 1 .A man named Craig Pierce was coming to the city of Bristol. He wanted t
2、o make recordings of local people singing and playing musical instruments. And he said he would 2 fifty dollars for each song recorded. That was a huge 3 in those days. Many people came to Bristol that day to 4 for Mr. Pierce. But one group seemed to have just the sound that he was 5 . They were a m
3、an named AP. Carter,his wife Sara,and her cousin Maybelle. They 6 themselves the Carter Family.Their first recordings were sent to 7 throughout the United States. Many listeners were 8 at what they heard. Instead of classical or jazz songs that radio stations usually played,a new 9 was born. The Car
4、ter Family sounded 10 . They did not sound 11 they had taken music lessons. But it did not matter. The people in poor rural areas thought they sounded just like their 12 .The Carters sang songs about living in the mountains of Virginia,Tennessee,and North Carolina. They sang about the 13 of a young
5、man for a special girl. They sang about the beauty of nature. They sang about death and sadness. And they sang religious songs that told of the hope for a(an) 14 life after death.AP. Carter sang in the group and also searched for 15 songs. He often traveled long 16 to small towns in the southeastern
6、 United States. He wanted to hear the songs that 17 people sang in their communities. He wrote down the words but kept the music in his 18 . When he returned home, he helped Sara and Maybelle fit them to the Carter Family musical 19 . The Carter Family soon became popular. Within three years, the Ca
7、rter Family sold 300,000 recordings.Life is like a stage, on which gold will 20 .1、Awide Bfast Cwell Dshort2、Abring Btake Clend Dpay3、Asum Bcelebration Cmoney Dinstrument4、Await Blisten Cplay Dlearn5、Alooking for Blooking after Cpicking up Dpicking out6、Aasked Bcalled Cwished Dshowed7、Arural areas B
8、big cities Cradio stations Dfamilies8、Asurprised Bgood Cslow Dannoyed9、Astory Bsinger Csong Dsound10、Ainteresting Bgreat Cappealing Ddifferent11、Ain case Bas if Ceven if Das long as12、Ateachers Bfarmers Cneighbors Downers13、Abeauty Blove Crespect Ddescription14、Abitter Bearly Cworse Dbetter15、Anew B
9、modern Csame Dexact16、Adirections Bdistances Cplaces Dtrains17、Atalented Bfamous Clocal Dold18、Adiary Bmemory Csongs Dstories19、Astyle Bprogram Cshow Dconcert20、Adevelop Bdistinguish Cshine DchangeSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions be
10、low each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1World Book Day falls on April 23 every yearIt was set up by the United Nations Educational,Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) in 1995 to encourage people, especially teenagers, to discover the
11、pleasure of readingIt is also the day to honor great writers,for example,William Shakespeare,born or dead on that dayMany countries celebrate World Book DayTake UK as an exampleOn that day,millions of school children can buy books of special price,a much lower price than usual,in any bookstoreIt has
12、 been done every year since 1998World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Our Former Premier Wen Jiabao, a bookworm, who does lots of reading every day, has called on people to do more reading. He suggested that young people should spend more time readingBooks cannot change the world, but people c
13、an change the world by changing themselves through reading,” he saidWhy do people like reading? One big advantage is that reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent. Also, reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Besides, reading gives us inf
14、ormation about other cultures and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that are unfamiliar to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. Whats more, reading is also one of the most impor
15、tant ways to learn a foreign language like EnglishReading makes a full man (Bacon,1597). Books,magazines,newspapers and other kinds of materials can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us. So it is necessary for us to spend time on reading every day1、World Book Day was set up in order to encourage p