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1、湖北省武汉市汉南区2023年考研英语一考前冲刺试题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)完形填空 （共20小题；每小题l分，满分20分）When Andra Rush started her trucking company, all she had was an old van，two used pick-up
2、 trucks and the simple certainty of a 23-year-old girl. But she planned to make her fortune in about four years to 36 her true goal: dealing with poverty on Native American reservations across North America. I thought I could retire by the time I was 27, says Rush, At that age, you dont know 37 you
3、dont know.Rush is 49 now and 38 working hard. Her tiny start-up just outside Detroit has 39 to a $400 million North American business. Today Rush is a(an) 40 not only for Native Americans but also for women in the male-controlled world of trucking. Rush was 41 30 miles outside Detroit. When the teen
4、age Rush visited the reservation for the first time, she was 42 by the poverty and lack of hope. I really wanted to 43 she says.She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1982. She took a nursing job with a 44 pay and then practiced at an airgoods company, 45 the speed of package pickups and d
5、eliveries made a little more a little more profits. I thought I could do that 46 , Rush says.Within six months, Rush had ten employees, and clients(客户) 47 Ford and GM were paying her to 48 small packages from the airport. Ford was the first to offer her a job trucking parts between its plants and su
6、pplier. By 2001, many of Rushs 1,000 employees were Native Americans, working alongside people of every 49 But she felt she hadnt done enough. 50 she joined forces with a Canadian parts maker to design and gather auto components. She located the plants near reservations, 51 opportunities where they
7、were needed most. By 2009, her auto parts business was earning $370 million 52 .Shes come a long way from the 53 23-year-old who thought the cash would just roll in. But Rush wouldnt change a thing: I love my job, she says. I 54 the fact that you can start to get some motivation and keep 55 yourself
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9、have an influenceBmake a differenceCset an exampleDmake a decision8、 AlowBhighCcheapDexpensive9、AwhichBthatCwhenDwhere10、AwellBbadlyCworseDbetter11、AlikeBbesidesCforDexcept12、AtakeBfetchCbringDlift13、AeducationBfamilyCbackgroundDcity14、ABecauseBForCButDSo15、AseizingBcreatingCgraspingDlosing16、.Ain c
10、aseBin turnCin returnDin need17、AinexperiencedBexperiencedCexpertDskilled18、AenjoyBhateCdoubtDrefuse19、AfightingBforcingCchallengingDamusingSection 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
11、 on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Hawking died early Wednesday at his home in England at the age of 76. Throughout his career as one of the worlds most recognizable cosmic thinkers, he regularly threw himself into pop cultures comedic ring with cameos（客串）on programs such as The Simpsons and Lat
12、e Night with Conan OBrien.These appearances defined Hawkings personal life as mush as his universe-shaking theoretical work. Humor, however, was not just one side of his personality, but a key to overcoming the disease he struggled against since 1963.“Keeping an active mind has been vital to my surv
13、ival, as has maintaining a sense of humor,” Hawking said in a 2013 documentary. “I am probably better known for my appearances on The Simpsons and on The Big Bang Theory than I am for my scientific discoveries.”At 21, Hawking was diagnosed with a condition similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis（肌萎
14、缩性侧索硬化症）, also known as Lou Gehrigs disease. According to the ALS Association, “Half of all people affected with ALS live at most three or more years after diagnosis. Twenty percent live five years or more; only ten percent will live more than ten years.”The disease would eventually shut down Hawkin
15、gs motor functions, making him speechless and unable to move without a wheelchair. Doctors initially said he would be dead in two years. His condition, however, proved to be a rate slow-acting version.But Hawking fought through his worse physical state, rising to a position as a celebrated professor of mathematical at the University of Cambridge and altering the popular conception of physics with his 1988 bestseller, A Brief History of Time.“When I turned 21, my expectations were reduced to zero,”
