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1、考研英语一承德市双滦区2023年考前冲刺试题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 restric
2、t 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 th
3、e government 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 pro
4、fits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
5、 meeting “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 highe
6、r than 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-tra
7、de 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
8、less than 1%of global sales of cocoa, tea, coffee, etc.1、AdiscoveredBfoundedCencouragedDpromoted2、AimportsBexportsCoutputDtrade3、AdisobeyBbreakCuseDstudy4、AsuspectsBneedsCwantsDadvertises5、AagreementBcontractCgameDcompetition6、AworriesBmindsCcommentsDprojects7、AeducationalBpoliticalCworthy高尚Dimmedia
9、te8、AfavourBbenefitCinterestDproduce (n.农产品)9、AdependBspendClookDapply10、AasBlikeCwithDfor11、AinsteadBotherwiseCthereforeDanyhow12、AfearBstoreCpreparationDexchange13、AsecretlyBpubliclyCofficiallyDsuccessfully14、AurgesBenablesCordersDforces15、AnormalBpotentialClowestDbest16、AwhenBwhileCasDbut17、Alaun
10、chedBarrangedCinventedDdeveloped18、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
11、ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1 What were you like as a teenager? I was a nightmare. I was rude to my parents, always stayed out late, never did my homework, hung out with the wrong people and made lots of bad decisions. Apparently, this is the age when teenagers are out of control and behave badly.
12、 Maybe，if youre a teenager now, you think this is unfair criticism or its not your fault. Well, you might be right!Experts have found that its a teenagers brain that is to blame. Between the ages of approximately 13 to 19a period known as adolescencethe brain is still developing in areas that contro
13、l behavior. This has an influence on learning and multitasking(同时做多件事情), stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision-making. For parents, these consequences often manifest themselves in a variety of behaviors that they may have previously blamed on hormones or just moodiness(喜怒无常).This is quit
14、e a new discovery, according to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, who, speaking on the BBC radio program The Life Scientific, says, “when I was at university, the dogma(教条) in the text books was that the vast majority of brain development goes on in the first few years of life and nothing much change
15、s after mid-childhood. That dogma is completely false.”According to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, students not being able to get their homework done on time has something to do with our prefrontal cortexthats the part of our brain right at the front, just behind the forehead. She says, “its involved in a whole range of very high-level cognitive(认知的) tasks such as decision making and planningwe know that this region is undergoing very large amounts of development during the adol
