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1、河北省承德市宽城满族自治县2023年考研英语一深度自测卷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)Having been a music teacher for twenty-seven years, I have always known that music touches the spirit. It can
2、1 all kinds of barriers to reach the students in a very special way. It can be the 2 by which each child can find their light. Id like to share a story where music overcame a 3 barrier and made a connection with a young student. One of my most 4 students was a young girl called Vanessa. Vanessa had
3、difficulty walking and couldnt speak at that time. We 5 sat on the floor for our music lessons. We all like a song, which was a call and response song where I sang the call and the students clapped twice while singing the repeat, Oh, yes! We probably 6 that song during every class, Vanessa and I cla
4、pping together. She never said or sang a word. One day late in the school year, when the song was finished, Vanessa turned around, looked at me directly in the eye, clapped her tiny hands twice and 7 the words Oh, yes! I opened my mouth 8 and for that moment I was the one who couldnt speak . Through
5、 music, we had made an excellent 9 Several years later, I met Vanessa in the street in town. She waved to me with a big smile on her face and then clapped her hands twice, copying the song we had performed so many times. This precious little girl, 10 her connection with music, left a(n) 11 on me tha
6、t will last forever. Every child has the ability to learn and grow. It is up to us as 12 to discover the way to reach each and every one of our students. We all must find each childs light.1、Aput upBturn toCbreak throughDrun into2、AgoalBmeansCcourseDexperience3、AphysicalBmentalCpotentialDmusical4、Af
7、avoriteBunforgettableCactiveDserious5、AusuallyBactuallyChardlyDFinal6、ArecordedBperformedCcomposedDheard7、AsignedBreadCwroteDsaid8、Awith interestBin surpriseCwith fearDby nature9、AconnectionBchoiceCcommentDpromise10、AtowardsBbeyondCthroughDfor11、AimpressionBvoiceCmarkDmessage12、AartistsBeducatorsCdo
8、ctorsDresearchersSection 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 ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1What Cocktail Parties Teach UsYoure at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinki
9、ng. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel (分贝) level. Yet among all those distractions, you can tune your attention to just one voice from many. This ability is what researchers call the “cocktail-party effect”.Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco have found where
10、 that sound-editing process occurs in the brain in the auditory cortex (听觉皮层) just behind the ear, not in areas of higher thought. The auditory cortex boosts some sounds and turns down others so that when the signal reaches the higher brain, “its as if only one person was speaking alone,” says inves
11、tigator Edward Chang.These findings, published in the journal Nature last week, explain why people arent very good at multitasking our brains are wired for “selective attention” and can focus on only one thing at a time. That inbornabilityhas helped humanssurvivein a world buzzing with visual and au
12、ditory stimulation (刺激). But we keeptryingto push the limits with multitasking, sometimes withtragic(悲剧的) consequences. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get intotrafficaccidents as those who arent.Many of those accidents are due to “inattentional blindness”, in
13、 which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they arent focusing on. The more attention a task demands, the less attention we can pay to other things in our field of vision. Images land on our retinas (视网膜) and are either boosted or played down in the visual cortex before being passed to
14、 the brain, just as the auditory cortex filters sounds, as shown in the Nature study last week. “Its a push-pullrelationship the more we focus on one thing, the less we can focus on others,” says Diane M. Beck, anassociateprofessor ofpsychologyat the University of Illinois.Studies over the pastdecad
15、eat the University of Utah show that drivers talking on hands-free cellphones are just as influenced as those on hands-held phones because it is the conversation, not the device, that is distracting their attention. Those talking on any kind of cellphone react more slowly and miss more traffic signals than other motorists.Some people can train themselves to pay extra attention to things that are important like police officers learn to scan crowds for faces and conductors can listen for individual instruments within theorchestraas a whole. Many more think they c
