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1、考研英语一2023年安县考前冲刺预测试卷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)The 1 picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of hi
2、s 2 , who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously 3 of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the 4 on the table. His two guests heard several drawers opening and a rustling (飒飒响声).They 5 sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking
3、 at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the 6 came, right there in the living-room. Something was hopelessly broken.It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked 7 her shoulder at once, startled (吓一跳), 8 . It was 9 . Neither of them had
4、 touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the 10 floor and blurted out(脱口而出), “It doesnt matter, it doesnt matter!”The father started to say something. Then he muttered(嘀咕), “Sorry, I 11 it and it fell.”“It doesnt matter,” the host s
5、aid.Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your 12 in the windowpane(窗玻璃). You were sitting perfectly 13 . Why did you say?”The father 14 , “What then would you 15 as the cause of its fall?”“It fell by itself! Maybe the floor is uneven. It wasnt steady when Mr. Li put it th
6、ere.”“It wont 16 , girl. It sounds more 17 when I say I touched it. There are things people accept less the more you 18 them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”The daughter was 19 in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you explain it only this way?”“Only this way,” the father la
7、ughed again. “Since life is not perfect, sometimes we need to deal with it with a white 20 .”1、Aowner Bhost Cguest Dmaster2、Afriends Bneighbors Cchildren Dguests3、Aknowing Bremembering Chearing Dthinking4、Athermos Bcup Clid Dtea5、Aenjoyed Bremained Cimagined Dhated6、Astranger Bhost Ccrash Dnoise7、Aa
8、round Bat Cbehind Dover8、Astaring Bglaring Cobserving Dglancing9、Ahelpless Bexciting Cstrange Dterrible10、Abreaking Bsteaming Csinking Dflooding11、Atouched Bused Chit Dmoved12、Aexpression Bshadow Creflection Daction13、Acalm Bstill Csilent Dstraight14、Ashouted Brecalled Claughed Drepeated15、Atell Bma
9、ke Caccept Dgive16、Ado Bhelp Cgo Dsuit17、Acomfortable Bfriendly Cacceptable Dagreeable18、Adefend Bsupport Cdiscuss Dargue19、Akept Bshut Cworried Dlost20、Aaction Blie Cexcuse DdevotionSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text
10、by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1 Recently, a 1935 letter in which Ernest Hemingway detailed his catch of a 500lb blue marlin(青枪鱼), an adventure that is believed to have partly inspired his novel The Old Man and the Sea, has been sold for28,000 (22,00
11、0)The handwritten letter was sent by Hemingway on 8 May to the fishing editor of the Miami Herald, laying out in great detail how the author and his friend Henry Strater battled to keep sharks away from the marlin after catching it off the Bahamian island of BiminiNate D Sanders, the auction(拍卖) com
12、pany which sold the letter, said it documented for the first time in Hemingways own words not only the size of the marlin, but also the attack by sharks, reflecting the plot of the novelThe company added that Hemingways account of the marlin catch differed from other anecdotes of it, one of which de
13、scribed Hemingway using a machine gun on the sharks, which is said to have attracted more sharks rather than frightened them awayThe Old Man and the Sea was also inspired by an anecdote told by Hemingways Cuban friend Carlos Gutierrez In 1936, Hemingway wrote in a magazine that Carlos had told him a
14、bout an old fisherman who caught a great marlin aloneThree years later, Hemingway told his editor Max Perkins that he was planning a short story about the old commercial fisherman who fought the swordfish all alone in his sailing boat Instead, he ended up writing For Whom the Bell Tolls, not returning to the story about the old fisherman until January 1951 It won him the Pulitzer in 1953, and was specifically cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 19541、What does the underlined phrase laying out in the second paragraph mean?ADiscussingBWonderingCImaginingDPresenting2、What did the au