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1、考研英语一河南省周口市淮阳县2023年临考冲刺试卷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)Hee Ah Lee was born with severe physical disability. She has 1 fingers on each hand. And her legs end at her knee
2、s. Her doctors didnt expect her to 2 . But she does live.At the age of six she started to play the piano. At the time, her four fingers were very 3 . She couldnt even hold a pencil. Her mother 4 that her daughter should take piano lessons. One reason was the thought of helping her strengthen her han
3、ds so she could hold a pencil. The other was 5 she felt that if she could 6 the piano, she could manage anything.For six months piano schools 7 them down and then the only teacher who did accept the 8 got discouraged and wanted to 9 . It became a three-month contest of 10 between mother and daughter
4、 that led to a difficult situation in which the mother 11 threw her daughter on the floor in disappointment. She said Lee got back up on the piano 12 and for the first time played the childrens song she had been trying to 13 . That was the turning point and one year later Lee won the grand prize in
5、a piano concert for kindergartners. It was at age 7 that Lee 14 Koreas 19th National Handicap Conquest Contest and was 15 with the medal by the president. Today Lee is 32, has won a number of 16 , and is a widely traveled concert pianist with more than 200 17 .Lee gives thanks to her mother for 18 h
6、er to master the piano and said that although her training was 19 , “As time went by, the piano became my 20 of inspiration and my best friend.”1、Ano Btwo Cthree Dfour2、Asucceed Bexist Csurvive Dgrow3、Ashort Binflexible Cweak Dfat4、Aimagined Bdiscussed Cordered Ddecided5、Athat Bbecause Cwhy Dso6、Ate
7、ach Blove Ctake Dmaster7、Aturned Blooked Ccalmed Dlet8、Aoffer Btask Cgift Dprice9、Ahide Bquit Crest Descape10、Aachievement Bwill Chabit Dquality11、Aaccidentally Bbravely Cangrily Dcarelessly12、Alesson Bclass Cboard Dbench13、Ateach Bsing Chear Dlearn14、Acompeted Bbeat Cwon Dwatched15、Apresented Bawar
8、ded Crewarded Dsupplied16、Asupports Bgames Cprizes Dpraises17、Acontests Bmeetings Cfollowers Dperformances18、Achallenging Ballowing Cpersuading Dencouraging19、Along Btough Cuneasy Dpleasant20、Asource Bsymbol Cknowledge DenergySection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four t
9、exts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Soaping up your hands may do more than just get rid of germs. It may wash away the inner confusion you feel right after being forced to make a choice between two appealing cho
10、ices, according to a new study. The study builds on past research into a phenomenon known as “the Macbeth effect”.It turns out that Shakespeare was really onto something when he imagined lady Macbeth trying to clean her conscience(良心)by rubbing invisible bloodstains from her hands. A few years ago,
11、scientists asked people to describe a past wrong act. If people were then given a chance to clean their hands, they later expressed less guilt than people who hadnt cleaned.This finding fascinated W. S. Lee, a researcher. “Anything from the past, any kind of negative emotional experiences, might be
12、washed away,” says Lee.He decided to test hand washings effect on one kind of bad feeling: the tension we feel after being forced to choose between two attractive choices, because picking one choice makes us feel that weve lose the other. People usually try to calm this inner conflict by later exagg
13、erating(夸大)the positive aspects of their choice.He had students rank 10 different music CDs. Then he offered students one CD as a gift. Some students then use liquid soap. Others only looked at the soap or sniffed(嗅)it. “Actually, you do not need water and soap,” says Lee.Later, the students again h
14、ad to rank all the music. People who didnt wash their hands had the normal response they scored their take-home CD higher, suggesting that they now saw it as even more attractive than before. But this wasnt true for the hand washers. They ranked the music about the same. “they feel no need at all to
15、 justify the choice,” say Lee.But the implications of it just arent clear. Schwarz says its too soon to know whether people should head for a sink after making a tough choice. He says washing may help decision-makers by cleaning away mental disorder, but perhaps if they dont go through the usual post-decision process of justifyin