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1、考研英语一湖南省常德市石门县2023年全真模拟试题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)There is an interesting story about how Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist, developed the ability to produc
2、e an amazing work in just minutes.As the story goes, Picasso was walking through the market one day when a woman 1 him. She stopped the artist, pulled out a piece of paper and said, “Mr. Picasso, I am a fan of your works. Could you do a little 2 for me, please ?”Picasso smiled and 3 drew a small, bu
3、t beautiful piece of art on the paper. Then, he 4 the paper back to the woman, saying, “That will be one million dollars.”“But Mr. Picasso, it only 5 you 30 seconds to draw this little masterpiece,” said the woman“My good lady, I spend 30 years 6 to draw that masterpiece in thirty seconds.” said Pic
4、asso.Picasso isnt the only 7 man who worked for decades to master his craft. His 8 is typical of many creative geniuses. Even people of considerable talent 9 produce amazing work before decades of 10 . A recent study 11 the ages of Nobel Prize winners, great inventors, and scientists. The researcher
5、s found that most groundbreaking work 12 during the late thirties at least a full decade into any personal career. Even in the fields of science and maths, creative 13 is often made after more than ten years work.These findings 14 the work done by previous researchers as well. For example, a study 1
6、5 at Carnegie Mellon University by professor John Hayes found that out of 500 famous musical pieces, nearly all of them were created after ten years of the composers career. In later studies, Hayes found similar 16 with poets and painters. He began 17 this period hard work and little fame as the“ten
7、 years of 18 .”Whether you are a composer or a scientist, creativity is not a 19 you are born with or without. It is something that is discovered, honed(磨练), and improved 20 real work.1、Arealized Brecognized Cinterviewed Dfollowed2、Achatting Breading Cshopping Ddrawing3、Afinally Bunwillingly Cquickl
8、y Dsuddenly4、Ahanded Btransported Carranged Ddelivered5、Atook Bwasted Cspent Drequested6、Apractising Bteaching Clearning Dintending7、Afunny Bcomplex Carguable Dbrilliant8、Ajourney Bpainting Cmodel Dachievement9、Aalways Brarely Cnever Dpossibly10、Await Bsurvey Cpractice Dformation11、Asaw Bkept Cconne
9、cted Dtracked12、Acompleted Bpeaked Csucceeded Dcreated13、Aadvance Bcollection Cdevelopment Dprogress14、Amatch Bshow Cinclude Ddelay15、Acarried Bexplored Cconducted Dremoved16、Apatterns Blifestyles Cconditions Dcustoms17、Alooking at Breferring to Ctaking over Ddressing up18、Areview Bsilence Crise Dtr
10、ick19、Acase Bcharacter Cquality Drole20、Abefore Bwith Calong DthroughSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Supermarket shelves are filled w
11、ith plant-based alternatives to cow milk, including soy, nut, and coconut milk. These products are popular with consumers who cannot drink cows milk for health reasons, as well as with those concerned about animal welfare and environmental sustainability. While the dairy-free(非乳制的)options work well
12、with cereal or in coffee, they fail miserably when it comes to making milk-based products like cheese or yogurt. However, these shortcomings may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new company in California, which has figured out how to create animal-free milk in a laboratory!Perumal Gandhi and
13、 Ryan Pandya founded the company in 2014 after becoming increasingly annoyed with the lack of cows milk-free alternatives, particularly for cheese. For Gandhi, who stopped consuming animal products five years earlier due to environmental and animal welfare concerns, the motivation to create a better
14、 alternative stemmed from his love of cheesy pizza. Pandya was spurred into taking action after being forced to eat some “really bad” dairy-free cream cheese on his sandwichThe two MIT biomedical engineering scientists decided to join forces to create a more realistic alternative to dairy-based prod
15、ucts. In their university lab, the pair spent nine months first isolating cow DNA then inserting it into yeast(酵母). This genetic modification enabled the yeast to produce the necessary milk proteins. The final step of the process involved mixing the proteins with some plant nutrients and fats.The dairy-free milk not only tastes lik