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1、长沙市浏阳市2023年考研英语一预测试题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)One woman is having a very merry Christmas, indeed, all thanks to the honesty and determination of a complete stranger
2、.“When I saw it, I said, God, this is really a pretty 1 Somebodys going to heartbroken,” said Shirley Grandey , 62, who was a volunteer for keeping the environment clean.When Grandey was 2 a large pile of pine needles and dirt at the end of her hard work day, she never 3 to come across someones diam
3、ond ring lying alone among a pile of 4 .Knowing the ring probably had special 5 , Grandey held onto the jewelry and made it her 6 to find the owner.“I said, Oh God ,I have to find the 7 , recalled Grandey before making the decision to contact the TV station, to help 8 the word. It was definitely a 9
4、 ring. It was intertwined（缠绕）and had their 10 on it”Her efforts 11 “The brother of the girl saw it on 12 and told her, said Grandey, who couldnt have been happier to return the 13 ring to its original owner, Julie Sanalitro.“I was screaming and running around the house,” Sanalitro told the news stat
5、ion. We always come to 14 our tree from there to celebrate Christmas Day, she said.When Sanalitro called to 15 the ring, she explained it was a gift from her boyfriend, who had only given it to her two months ago when they 16 reunited.She was not only able to 17 answer all of Grandeys questions abou
6、t the ring, 18 she was the original owner, but Grandey added, “I knew it was hers the moment she was walking up.”“We just hugged each other and she had a few tears, the 19 volunteer explained.All that Crandey asks from this 20 is simply for people to “pay it forward.” She said. “ I would want someon
7、e to give it back to me if I lost my ring, so just try to pay it forward.”1、AgiftBhandkerchiefCnecklaceDring2、Aputting awayBcleaning upCkeeping upDbringing up3、AexpectedBwantedCunderstoodDimagined4、AfurnitureBequipmentCluggageDgarbage5、AobjectBdesignCvalueDform6、AdutyBworkCabilityDagreement7、Adesign
8、erBownerCphotographerDartist8、AprintBexploreCspreadDwrite9、AluckBweddingCmarriageDlove10、AphotosBnamesCaddressesDwords11、Apaid offBpaid upCpaid backDpaid out12、AtelevisionBtelephoneCradioDphone13、AniceBlostCuglyDlovely14、AtakeBbuyCgetDlift15、ArescueBtransportCconveyDdescribe16、ArecentlyBimmediatelyC
9、activelyDlikely17、AsuccessfullyBproperlyCobviouslyDsimilarly18、ArememberingBensuringCforgettingDtelling19、AkindBangryCcloseDlearned20、AaccidentBoriginCexperienceDevidenceSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A
10、, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1 A biologist once criticized for stealing eggs from the nests of the rarest bird in the world has been awarded the “Nobel Prize” of conservation after his methods saved nine species from extinction.Professor Carl Jones won the 2016
11、 Indianapolis Prize - the highest accolade in the field of animal conservation - for his 40 years of work in Mauritius, where he saved an endangered kestrel from becoming the next Great Auk.When the 61-year-old first travelled to the east African island in the 1970s, he was told to close down a proj
12、ect to save the Mauritius kestrel. At the time there were just four left in the wild, making it the rarest bird on Earth. However, he stayed, using the techniques of captive breeding (人工繁殖), which involved snatching eggs from the birds nests and hatching（孵化）them under incubators, prompting the mothe
13、rs to lay another set of eggs in the wild.A decade later, the number of Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and today there are around 400 in the wild. The biologist has also been necessary in efforts to bring other rare species back from the edge of extinction, including the pink pigeon, echo
14、 parakeet and Rodrigues warbler.Prof Jones was awarded the $250,000 (172,000) prize at a ceremony in London.“As a young man in my 20s, I certainly didnt enjoy the stress and the tension of the criticism I received,” reflecting on the start of his career, he said the Maurutius kestrel project had bee
15、n seen as a “dead loss” at the time. In the 1970s there was fierce opposition to the captive breeding techniques, with critics arguing that they were too risky and took the emphasis off breeding in the wild.Prof Jones has devoted his whole life to his work, only becoming a father for the first time eight years ago, at 53. He said receiving the prize was particularly important to him, because it proved that his work to save birds was right.1、What does
