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1、考研英语一2023年信阳市模拟预测试卷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)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。She always wore a flower in her hairMostly I thought it looked 1 A flower
2、 to work? But no one questioned the young woman why a flower 2 her to work each dayIn fact, we probably would have been more curious if she had 3 without itShe did so one day 4 she delivered a project to my office“I 5 there is no flower in your hair today, I said 6 Im so used to seeing you wear one
3、7 it almost seems as if something is 8 ” “Oh, yes, she replied quietly, in a rather sad voiceThis was far from her _24_ bright personalityI knew l had questioned something 9 than a lost flower“Today is the anniversary of my mothers deathI 10 her so much that Im very sadWhen I was a little girl, my m
4、other would often 11 flowers in my hairBut when I was 15 she died of cancerIve just always worn a flower in my hair since then and 12 made me feel as though she 13 with meToday, however, I think she would like a 14 that I am becoming self-dependent, after ten years of her deathAnd it seems that it i
5、s the flower that has to 15 ”She met my eyes and then smiled sadly“I neednt wear a flower to be 16 of herIt was just an outward sign of my treasured 17 theyre still there even with the flower goneOh, heres the 18 I hope it meets with your agreement She 19 me the neatly prepared document, signed with
6、 a hand-drawn flower below her name1、Astupid Bchildish Cstrange Dugly2、Aaccompanied Bbrought Callowed Dencouraged3、Ashown up Bgone up Cjumped up Ddressed up4、Abefore Bafter Cwhen Duntil5、Asense Bdiscover Cdoubt Dnotice6、Afreely Bfirmly Ccalmly Dworriedly7、Aas Bthat Cwhich Dwhat8、Amissing Bgoing Chap
7、pening Dchanging9、Anormal Bgeneral Ccommon Dusual10、Aprettier Bbetter Cbigger Dearlier11、Aappreciate Bwant Crespect Dmiss12、Aput Bsent Chanded Dtook13、Athis Bit Cat Done14、Astayed Bstudied Cworked Dslept15、Aword Bsign Cpattern Dmodel16、Amelt Bdie Cgo Dpass17、Ainformed Breminded Ctold Dremembered18、A
8、impressions Bmemories Csecrets Dwishes19、Astory Bending Cproject Dgift20、Alent Bsent Cposted DhandedSection 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 1A
9、 study of 500，000 songs released（发行）in the UK between 1985 and 2015 showed that pop music has decreased in happiness and increased in sadnessIn a report published in the journal Royal Society Open Science，researchers at the University of California examined hundreds of thousands of songs and classif
10、ied them by their moodHappinessis going down，sadness is going up，and at the same time，the songs are becoming more danceable and more party-like，co-author Natalia LKomarova told The Associated PressThe study found songs in 2014 like Stay With Meby Sam Smith，Whispers by Passenger and Unmissable by Gor
11、gon City to have a low happiness trendHowever，tracks from 1985 like Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen，Would I Lie To You？ by Eurythmics and Freedomby Wham had a high happiness trendThe public seems to prefer happier songs， even though more and more unhappy songs are being released each year， the resea
12、rchers wroteApart from the emotional trends，researcheis discovered that dance and pop were the most successful styles of music and that there was a clear downward trend，with the popularity oF rock beginning in the early 2000sSo it looks like，while the overall mood is becoming less happy，people seem
13、to want to forget it all and dance， Komarova wrote in an emailIt was also found that the maleness of songsthe frequency of male singers in popular musichad decreased during the last 30 years Successful songs are characterised by a larger percentage of female artists compared to all songs，they WroteT
14、his discovery appears at a time when the convcrsation around sex equality in the music industry is at its height，with more male artists and songwriters1、The researchers examined lots of songs to Afind songs for dance and partyBchoose songs for a journalCrelease more songsDknow better about songs2、Whose music style tends to bring you more happiness？ANatalia LKomarovas BSam SmithsCGorgon Citys DBruce Springsteens3、What do we know about songs over the past three decades？ARock became popular in the early 2000sBFewer unhappy songs come to light
