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1、考研英语一2023年湘潭市湘潭县高分冲刺试卷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)Thanks to a combination of young businessmen, large numbers of university students and revitalization (新生) efforts b
2、y the local and national governments, todays Nanjing has an 1 of youthful exuberance (繁茂) that would have been 2 only a few decades ago. 3 , the city, a booming city of 6.5 million on the banks of the Yangtze River some 185 miles west of Shanghai, bears 4 resemblance to the former capital of China t
3、hat suffered the worst cruelty and violence of World War II. 5 Nanjing has shown a remarkable capacity for reinvention during its 2,500-year history. And in recent years, the city has moved 6 its tragic past to become a vital engine of Chinas economic growth, thanks 7 to its position in the middle o
4、f Chinas prosperous eastern seaboard. Growth has also 8 thanks to improved ground transportation: A new bullet train linking Nanjing and Shanghai started service last year, 9 travel time between the cities from several hours to just 75 minutes, and a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line is 10 to open la
5、ter this year, with a stop in Nanjing. Within the city, two metro lines were built in the last few years; 15 more are planned to begin service by 2030.Signs of Nanjings 11 wealth and optimism can be seen everywhere. In the heart of the downtown Xinjiekou district, a bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen, 12
6、the father of modern China, looks 13 over a busy 14 area.There is perhaps no more 15 symbol of the citys transformation than the Zifeng Tower, a 1,480-foot skyscraper that opened its doors last May. 16 offices, restaurants and an InterContinental hotel, the tower is the second-tallest building in Ch
7、ina and billed as the seventh-tallest in the world.Underlying all this development is a large Chinese and 17 student population there are several major universities, plus a branch of Johns Hopkinss international studies school. In fact, art and music 18 in all sorts of places.On a larger 19 , local
8、government officials and private investors are pushing the city as a rising center for contemporary art and architecture, hoping to attract 20 from the neon-bathed streets of its neighbor Shanghai.1、AadvanceBaffectionCairDability2、AunforgettableBunthinkableCunbearableDunnecessary3、AActuallyBRegretfu
9、llyCHopefullyDConsequently4、AcloseBslightCmuchDlittle5、ABecauseBButCAsDSince6、AbeyondBonCoffDout7、Ain additionBin allCin partDin fact8、AstartedBenlargedCexistedDaccelerated9、AremovingBcuttingCdividingDlowering10、AscheduledBinventedCdesiredDmeant11、AattractiveBwell-receivedCnewfoundDdiscovered12、Atho
10、ughtBtreatedCconsideredDelected13、AoutBatCaboutDfor14、AremoteBregionalCruralDcommercial15、AuniversalBvisibleCtraditionalDpolitical16、AKeepingBConsistingCOpeningDHousing17、ABritishBwesternCAmericanDforeign18、Aspring upBstand upCset upDkeep up19、AextentBdegreeCscaleDlevel20、AbusinessmenBstudentsCtouri
11、stsDpaintersSection 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 “Be afraid. Be very afraid,” says a character in The Fly, a horror film about a man who
12、turns into an enormous insect. It captures the unease and disgust people often feel for the kingdom of cockroaches, Zika-carrying mosquitoes and creepy crawlies of all kinds. However, ecologists increasingly see the insect world as something to be frightened for, not frightened of. In the past two y
13、ears, scores of scientific studies have suggested that trillions of murmuring, droning, honeybees, butterflies and beetles are dying off. “If all mankind were to disappear”, wrote E.O.Wilson, a respectable entomologist, “the world would regenerate If insects were to vanish, the environment would col
14、lapse into chaos.”Most of the studies describe declines of 50% and more over decades in different measures of insect health. The immediate reaction is shock. Insects enable plants to reproduce, through pollination (授粉), and are food for other animals, so a collapse in their numbers would be catastro
15、phic.But a second look leads to a different assessment. Rather than causing a panic, the studies should act as a timely warning and a reason to take precautions. That is because the worst fears are unproven. There are no studies at all of wild insect numbers in most of the world. Reliable data are too scarce to declare a global emergency.Moreover, where the evidence does show a collapsein Europe and Americaagricultural and rural ecosystems are holding up. Farm production still remains high. As some insect species die out, others seem to be
