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1、考研英语一2023年湖南省益阳市桃江县押题密卷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)I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landin
2、g on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still 1 the brightness of sunshine. It would be 2 to see again, but a 3 can do strange things to people. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the 4 of them made me 5 more what I had.Life, I believe, asks a continuous serie
3、s of adjustmentsto reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more 6 his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never 7 I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in methe 8 to livewhich I didnt see, and they made
4、 me want to 9 against blindness.The hardest 10 I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 11 that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real,
5、 12 person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.It took me years to discover and 13 this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I cant use this.” I said. “Take it with you,”
6、 he 14 me, “and roll it around.” The words 15 in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought 16 : playing baseball. At Philadelphias Overbrook School for the Blind I 17 a successful variation of baseball and I ca
7、lled it ground ball.All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my 18 It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach 19 that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would 20 sometime
8、s anyway but on the average I made progress.1、ArememberBaffectCmeasureDbring2、ApossibleBwonderfulChopefulDreasonable3、AquestionBmistakeCdisasterDsituation4、AimportanceBvalueClossDattention5、ArecordBexpectCofferDappreciate6、AnaturalBmodernCmeaningfulDchallenging7、AnecessaryBeasyCdifficultDpractical8、
9、ArightBplanCplaceDpotential9、AguardBhitCargueDfight10、AgameBskillClessonDknowledge11、Aself-controlBself-confidenceCself-defenseDself-improvement12、AmodestBenergeticCgenerousDpositive13、AstrengthenBexpressCshareDdestroy14、AurgedBblamedCrespectedDadmired15、AheldBstuckCbotheredDknocked16、AimportantBspe
10、cificCcommonDimpossible17、AinventedBconfirmedCcheckedDnoticed18、AinterestBlimitationCexperienceDresponsibility19、AonceBunlessCbecauseDthough20、AfailBtryCactDcontinueSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B,
11、C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1 Suppose you become a leader in an organization. Its very likely that youll want to have volunteers to help with the organizations activities. To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps the
12、ir interest in the work.Lets begin with the question of why people volunteer. Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen s
13、ocial relationships. If volunteer positions do not meet these needs, people may not wish to participate. To select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.People also volunteer because they are required to do so. To increase levels of community servic
14、e, some schools have launched compulsory volunteer programs. Unfortunately, these programs can shift peoples wish of participation from an internal factor (e.g. “I volunteer because its important to me”) to an external factor (e.g. “I volunteer because Im required to do so”). When that happens, peop
15、le become less likely to volunteer in the future. People must be sensitive to this possibility when they make volunteer activities a must.Once people begin to volunteer, what leads them to remain in their positions over time? To answer this question, researchers have conducted follow-up studies in which they track volunteers over time. For instance, one study followed 238 volunteers in Florida over a year. One of the most important factors that influenced their satisfaction as volu
