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1、考研英语一东台市2023年考前冲刺试卷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)Historically, the term “fair trade” has meant many things. The Fair Trade League was 1 in Britain in 1881 to restrict 2
2、 from foreign countries. In the United States, businesses and labor unions 3 “fair trade” laws to construct构建what economist Joseph Stiglitz calls “barriers to imports.” These so called “anti-dumping(反倾销)” laws allow a company that 4 a foreign one of selling a product below cost to request that the g
3、overnment charge收费special taxes to protect it from “unfair” 5 Such dark protectionist thoughts are far from the 6 of the organizers of the United Kingdoms annual “Fairtrade Fortnight”. Their 7 aim is to raise the price paid to developing-country farmers for their 8 by cutting out the inflated profit
4、s虚抬利润of the middlemen on whom they 9 for getting their goods to distant markets. Fair-trade products 10 cocoa, coffee, tea, and bananas do not compete with domestic European production, and 11 do not have a protectionist motive(动机).This is how it works: In 12 for being paid a guaranteed price and me
5、eting “agreed labor and environmental standards” (minimum wages, no farm chemicals ), poor-country farming cooperatives(合作社) receive a FAIRTRADE mark for their products, given 13 by the FAIRTRADE Labeling Organization. This mark 14 supermarkets and other businesses to sell the products at a higher t
6、han 15 price . Third-world farmers get their income increased, 16 first-world consumers get to feel virtuous: a marriage made in heaven.The fair-trade movement, 17 in the 1980s, has been growing rapidly. In a significant breakthrough in 1997, the British House of Commons 18 to serve only fair-trade
7、coffee. By the end of 2007, more than 600 producers organizations, 19 1.4 million farmers in 58 countries, were selling fair-trade products. Today, a quarter of all bananas in UK supermarkets are sold under a FAIRTRADE mark. But FAIRTRADE-labeled products still represent a very 20 sharetypically les
8、s than 1%of global sales of cocoa, tea, coffee, etc.1、AdiscoveredBfoundedCencouragedDpromoted2、AimportsBexportsCoutputDtrade3、AdisobeyBbreakCuseDstudy4、AsuspectsBneedsCwantsDadvertises5、AagreementBcontractCgameDcompetition6、AworriesBmindsCcommentsDprojects7、AeducationalBpoliticalCworthy高尚Dimmediate8
9、、AfavourBbenefitCinterestDproduce (n.农产品)9、AdependBspendClookDapply10、AasBlikeCwithDfor11、AinsteadBotherwiseCthereforeDanyhow12、AfearBstoreCpreparationDexchange13、AsecretlyBpubliclyCofficiallyDsuccessfully14、AurgesBenablesCordersDforces15、AnormalBpotentialClowestDbest16、AwhenBwhileCasDbut17、Alaunche
10、dBarrangedCinventedDdeveloped18、AwantedBrefusedChadDdecided19、AtellingBrepresentingCChoosingDreceiving20、AsmallBlittleCgoodDlargeSection 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 on the ANS
11、WER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication severe weather was on its waythe sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first alert my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m., from some scrolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to
12、find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel from the presidential primary debate I had been watching to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. Suddenly, the bones of the house shook, the power went out, and th
13、e wind began to roar through blown-out windows. We had three flights of steps to navigate to the relative safety of the first floor, where a closet fixed underneath a brick staircase might be the firmest place to wait things out. Everything around rattling, we struggled forward, uncertain whether we
14、 would make it.As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Shards of glass flew everywhere. A three-foot-long tree branch whipped, missing us by inches.By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, bu
15、t the wind kept him outside. I grasped his arm as the tornado constantly sucked the door open and tried to bring him with it. My knees and scalp were full of glass, but I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay. Then everything stopped. In those first quiet moments, I couldnt believe it was over.The storm lasted four minutes. Four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours
