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1、考研英语一2023年绍兴市新昌县预测试题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) “Sara, dont forget your promise to me that you will mow (割草) Mrs. Martins yard this weekend,” said Dad. “Dont let me
2、down.”Sara was the oldest child in the family, and one of her chores was to mow their yard. Mrs. Martin, their 1 neighbor, was unable to take care of her yard in her 70s, so Saras dad had 2 Sara for this job. 3 Mrs. Martins yard was not big, Sara knew the job would go quickly. However, she still dis
3、liked her dads 4 .“Why didnt you ask me first?” Sara had 5 .“Did you ask me first when you volunteered me to be in the school festival last fall?” asked Saras father.“Well, no, I didnt ask you first, 6 you would have done those things anyway. Youre always 7 to help.”“I 8 when I can.” Dad answered. “
4、Sara, we have known Mrs. Martin for a very long time. She has often 9 our family. Now we can do something for her. 10 , the feeling you get from helping someone makes you 11 who is really helping whom.”“I dont know, Dad,” said Sara. “The only feeling I get from mowing our yard is 12 .”“Just you wait
5、 and see,” said DadAfter breakfast, Sara made her way to Mrs. Martins yard. She was good at her job and soon had Mrs. Martins yard looking 13 . Mrs. Martin came outside with a big glass of orange juice and 14 it to her. Sara stopped her work and 15 enjoyed the drink, while Mrs. Martin talked to her
6、about all of the flowers in her yard. Seeing the 16 in Mrs. Martins eyes, Sara began to understand how much the yard 17 to Mrs. Martin.After finishing her drink, Sara returned to work with a new 18 . A warm feeling began to 19 through her body. Her dad was 20 . It was hard to tell who was helping wh
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9、nDexpectation19、AexistBflyCspreadDbreak20、AunusualBrightCseriousDhelpfulSection 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 1 Inside a secured room in a b
10、eautiful castle near Paris, a small metal cylinder (圆柱体) rests on a shelf beneath a double set of bell jars. It has lain there for more than a century, its rest only occasionally disturbed when the rooms three key holders perform a coordinated opening ceremony to let technicians enter and clean this
11、 precious piece of metal.First, the cylinder is rubbed with a piece of soft, alcohol-soaked cloth. Then it is steamed with pure water. Finally, the 1kg cylinder is returned, carefully, to its resting place.Such attention to a lump of metal is unusual, but has a purpose. The castle houses the Interna
12、tional Bureau of Weights and Measures and that piece of shining, circular metal is its holiest relic. It is the defining mass (质量)against which all other kilograms are measured. This is the international prototype, or standard, of the kilogram. The IPK, in short.Dozens of carefully weighted copies o
13、f the original have been made. They are stored around the world and used to standardise individual nations weights and measures systems.But the days of the IPK, in its current form, are numbered. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has decided to replace this single physical specimen wi
14、th a more fundamental measurement based on electric current in order to define the mass of an object. The king of kilograms is about to be dethroned.“One key reason for doing this work is to provide international security,” says Bureau spokesman Paul Robinson. “If the castle burned down tomorrow and
15、 the kilogram was destroyed, we would have no reference left for the worlds metric weights system. There would be chaos. The current definition of the kilogram is the weight of that cylinder in Paris, after all.”Another major motivation for the replacement of the IPK is the growing need to be able to carry out more and more precise measurements. “Drug companies will soon be wanting to use ingredients that will have to be
