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1、2023年浙江省宁波市江北区考研英语一考前冲刺试卷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)Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and DFill in e
2、ach blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.It was a hot summer day. My dad and I were ready to go out for a ride on the motorcycle with my friend Katie and the dog 1 the phone call came, a call that made that bright, beautiful day a cold, dark, 2 one.I had just put on my suit, shor
3、ts, and tank top(无袖紧身背心), and packed my bag with sunscreen and 3 else I would need for the day. I ran into my parents room to find Dad. When I saw him on the phone, he was crying. Id never seen my dad cry before. My heart 4 what possibly could have happened?“Max, Im so sorry,” I heard him say. Thats
4、 when it 5 me. I knew that Suzie had died. Max has been my dads best friend for years. Suzie, his daughter, had a rare disease that mainly affected her body. Her brain was OK. She knew what was 6 ; she knew that she had problems and was different from other kids. Once she told her dad that she wishe
5、d she could die and be born in a different body. Yet although she couldnt live a normal life, she was still happy.When Suzie and I were little, we spent quite a bit of time together. As we grew up, we grew 7 She lived in New York, and I lived in the Midwest. When Suzie was ten, she had to live in a
6、8 in Virginia. About eight months before she died, Max gave us her number at the hospital and we talked on the phone at least twice a week 9 the end. In a way, she lived through me. After we found out about her 10 , we made our plans to go to New York for the funeral. When she was alive, I sent her
7、a Beanie Baby and she sent one back to me. I had 11 her another one but never had the chance to send it to her, so I took it to put in her casket(棺材).To be honest, I learned so much from her. She gave me far more than I could ever give to her. I will never forget her or the talks we had. I now know
8、that I must never 12 anything for granted, especially my health and the gift of life.1、AwhenBafterConceDwhile2、AglaringBgorgeousCglamorousDgloomy3、AanythingBsomethingCeverythingDnothing4、AsankBdroppedCfellDlowered5、AsurprisedBhitCattractedDbeat6、Agetting onBgoing onCworking onDrunning on7、AtallBstro
9、ngCapartDpretty8、AkindergartenBnurseryCclinicDhospital9、AuntilBinCsinceDby10、AconditionBsurvivalCsituationDdeath11、AborrowedBmadeCboughtDsew12、AgetBtakeCenjoyDownSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C o
10、r D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1If your dog looks pleased to see youit is probably because it loves the particular way you smell.The scent (气味)of a familiar human apparently lingers like perfumein the animals brainwhere it causes an instinctive emotional response, resear
11、ch reveals.Our scent acts on a part of the canine (犬科的) brain associated with reward and the strongest reactions are produced by humans that pets know best, say scientists in America.Gregory Bern, of Emory University in Atlanta, said, “While we might expect that dogs should be highly tuned to the sm
12、ell of other dogs, it seems that the reward response is reserved for their humans. When humans smell the perfume of someone they love, they may have an immediate, emotional reaction thats not necessarily cognitive (认识的). So is it in dogs. But since dogs have a more sensitive smell than humans. their
13、 responses would likely be even more powerful than the ones we might have. In our experiment, however. the owners of the dog were not physically present. The canine brain responses were being caused by something distant in space and time. It shows that dogs brains have these mental representations o
14、f us that persist when were not there.”The experiment involved 12 dogs of various kinds by brain scans while five different scents were placed in front of them. The scent samples (样本)came from the subject (接受试险者) itself, a dog the subject had never met, a dog living in the subjects household. The fa
15、miliar human scent samples were taken from someone else from the house other than the handlers during the experiment, so that none of the scent donors were physically present.The results showed all five scents gained a similar response in parts of the dogs brains involved in detecting smells. Responses were significantly stronger for the scent of familiar humans, followed by that of familiar dogs. The findings showed dogs reacted strongest to the scent of familiar humans even when they were not there. Pets trained ashelp or therapy dogs show ed greater brain activity than the
