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1、乐山市五通桥区2023年考研英语一押题密卷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)The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, alth
2、ough sharing my love of music, didnt _36_ it as a profession. My grandfather, having taught music for years at college and, though much _37_, earned merely enough to support his family. As a result of this _38_in the family, I went to college -quite _39_, for although I loved my violin and spent mos
3、t of my spare time practicing, I had many other _40_. Before my graduation from Columbia, I felt _41_my duty to leave college and take a job. Aside from the satisfaction of being able to _42_the family, money is all I got out of it. My only ambition was to save enough to _43_ the job and go to Europ
4、e to study _44_. I used to get up at dawn to practice_45_ I left for “downtown “to work. . I continued to make money, and _46_, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to _47_.The situation of my family improved, and my help was _48_necessary, so I resigned from my _49_and, feeling like a man re
5、leased from jail, sailed for _50_. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and _51_every minute of it. I was a _52_man and I was doing what I_53_ to do and what I was meant to do. If I had stayed in business, I might be a quite wealthy man today, _54_ I wouldnt h
6、ave made a success of living . I would have _55_all those that money can never buy.Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high price on it.1、Areceive Baccept Crefuse Dkeep 2、Arespected Bhated Cdoubted Dscolded3、Aexcuse Bchance Cpromise Dexample4、Ahappily Bsadly Chopelessly Dnervou
7、sly5、Ainterests Bpities Cexperiments Dproblems6、Athis Bthat Cit Done7、Aquestion Bhelp Cwarn Dvisit 8、Agive up Bgive in Cgo on Dthrow away9、Acomputer Blaw Chistory Dmusic10、Aafter Bin case Cbefore Dthe moment11、Afirstly Bfinally Cgenerally Dlately12、Ago back Bgo home Cgo abroad Dgo down13、Ano longer
8、Bof course Cin fact Dmuch too14、Aposition Bcollege Chome Dfriends15、AAsia BEurope CAfrica DNorth America16、Awasted Blost Cforgot D .enjoyed17、Anative Bfree Cwise Dweak18、Arepeated Boffered Cloved Dsigned19、Aso Band Cbut Dfor20、Amissed Bgained Cachieved Dwon Section II Reading ComprehensionPart ADire
9、ctions: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 1 Since App Store was set up, it has been selling consumers one simple thing choice. Whether you wanted to play games, read the news, or do a th
10、ousand other things, there was something for whatever you desired.Then something funny happened. Logging into the App Store today is like going into a shopping mall with only a coupon(优惠券) for one thing: Theres so much choice; it might be easier to give up than to choose.It isnt consumers who are bu
11、rdened, though. Too much content of all kinds also has economic effects. When countless choices are available, it causes pressure, pushing prices down and driving us a bit crazy.So what is the way forward? It may well be to turn less choice itself to the marketing strategy. There are already signs t
12、hat this is happening. Firstly content companies are looking to prevent their offerings from getting lost in the tons of stuff. Most obvious is Disney, which is planning to open its own streaming service next year. The point is to narrow the focus so that those seeking Disney cartoons will have one
13、place to go, rather than being around various services.Yet if that represents a careful first step, there are more extreme options too. Consider the idea of a wine club: from tens of thousands of bottles each year, subscribers pay someone to select the most interesting ones. Perhaps what comes next
14、for digital content is similar-carefully selected offerings from trusted sources that put choices in the hands of someone else in order to get rid of the anxiety of choosing.Up to now, too much choice in digital media has only one solution: the algorithm（运算法则） But we ve seen the trouble with algorithms on You Tube They feed you only what youve already said you like, not things you may n
