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1、大理白族自治州大理市2023年考研英语一全真模拟试题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)One of the greatest concerts I ever attended never took place at all. Not quite, anyway.Instead, a violent 1 ,wh
2、ich came pretty much out of nowhere on a summer night, left the Saratoga Performing Arts Center without electrical power. The 2 storm hit just minutes before the Philadelphia Orchestra (交响乐团) was about to take the 3 along with a guest soloist, the violinist Sarah Chang.Forty-five minutes later, the
3、audience were still 4 , hoping power would be restored and the 5 would get under way. Thats when Chang 6 onto the stage, alone except for her 7 and a couple of stagehands equipped with flashlights to 8 her and her music.The orchestra 9 backstage. But Chang began playing Fritz KreislersRecitativo and
4、 Scherzo-Caprice. Maybe the rain was still pounding on the roof and 10 the grass. Maybe the thunder hadnt died away 11 by distance. Chances are, though, no one 12 that night could tell you there was anything at all in the air except the 13 .The performance was 14 , but it was delivered with both ski
5、ll and gracea sort of“ 15 ”card for the audiences presence and patience. The applause was 16 . then, several thousand music lovers 17 through pooling rainwater and 18 to their cars.Maybe the story ends right there. But the then-twenty-year-old musicians 19 for the people coming to hear her music say
6、s something about the essential relationship between artist and audience. Maybe Sarah Chang understood that when she offered her music as a 20 that night, without powered loudspeaker and in the near-darkness of a summer evening storm.1、Aflood Bearthquake Cthunderstorm Dfire2、Aglobal Bunexpected Creg
7、ular Duncertain3、Achance Baction Ctrouble Dstage4、Ashouting Bstruggling Cwaiting Dgathering5、Aconcert Brain Cdance Dsunlight6、Aclimbed Bstepped Cjumped Dheld7、Apiano Bconductor Cviolin Dband8、Aadmire Bbroadcast Ccircle Dlight9、Aremained Boccupied Chid Dworked10、Aflooding Bcleaning Cirrigating Ddestr
8、oying11、Aeither Byet Cever Djust12、Ascreaming Bcomplaining Cperforming Dlistening13、Aviolinist Blighting Cmusic Dcheering14、Abrief Bsuccessful Cboring Dembarrassing15、Aall right Bnever mind Cdont worry Dthank you16、Aweak Benthusiastic Cfrequent Dpermanent17、Alost their control Btraveled Cmade their
9、way Dlooked18、Aaway Bdown Cout Dback19、Arespect Banalysis Cgenerosity Dtolerance20、Atrick Bgift Crelief DmercySection 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 poin
10、ts)Text 1If youve ever had to chop an onion，you probably know that its one of the most annoying cooking experiencesIt just fills your eyes with tearsScientists and farmers have been working on a solution to this problem for decades，and theyve apparently come up with a tearless onionCalled the“Sunion
11、”，this new vegetable is the result of a natural cross-breeding program thats been going on farms in Nevada and Washington since the 1980sIts supposedly a sweet，mild-tasting onion that doesnt leave that strong，pungent aftertaste，but what really sets it apart from most other onion varieties is that it
12、 doesnt cause teary eyes when its choppedWhen you cut into a normal onion，it releases a compound called lachrymatory-factor synthase，andwhen that hits your eyes，your body produces tearsNow，the interesting thing about regular onions is that the amounts of lachrymatory-factor synthase increase the lon
13、ger the vegetables are stored，so the older they，the more you cryIn Sunions，on the other hand，the levels of that annoying compound drop the more time goes by，until it no longer has any effect on your eyes when you cut itThats what Sunion growers are claiming anyway，but reports from those lucky enough
14、 to have tried them seem to confirm these claimsThe Huffington Post had three of its reporters chop some Sunions，and apparently，none of them shed a single tearAccording to the Washington Post，they dont have the pungency of regular onions and are so sweet that you can eat them“like popcorn”So the goo
15、d news is that tearless onions are now a real thingThe bad news is that they are currently only grown in Washington and Nevada，and even though they are sold nationwide，they are still in relatively short supplyThe first Sunion batches hit the shelves of grocery stores in December，but we11 probably start seeing the
