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1、考研英语一2023年山西省阳泉市预测试卷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) Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford, Ive watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying
2、 Wall Street jobs. As executives (高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now 1 on their way to impressive careers. By societys 2 , they seem to have it made.On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life be
3、hind, many had a 3 drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and 4 out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine 5 a college years monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old cars with e
4、xpensive new sports cars.The thing is, a number of them have 6 that despite their success, they arent happy. Some 7 of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they 8 . Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and 9 . However, inste
5、ad of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the 10 to which they have so quickly become 11 .People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and 12 in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they 13 or finding a position that would give t
6、hem more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion: its 14 . They have loans, bills, a mortgage (抵押贷款) to 15 , retirement to save for. They recognize theres something 16 in their lives, but its 17 to step off the track.In a society that tends to 18 everything in terms
7、of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our 19 in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs 20 in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us tend to ignore and the very ones we need to consider most.1、AmuchBneverC
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9、eDproject11、AaccustomedBappointedCuniqueDavailable12、AyetBalsoCinsteadDrather13、Alet outBturn inCgive upDbelieve in14、AfundamentalBpracticalCimpossibleDunforgettable15、Atake offBdrop offCput offDpay off16、AmissingBinspiringCsinkingDshining17、AharmfulBhardCusefulDnormal18、AmeasureBsufferCdigestDdeliv
10、er19、AdisastersBmotivationsCcampaignsDdecisions20、AassessedBinvolvedCcoveredDreducedSection 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 1 People have diff
11、erent ways of dealing with a common cold. Some take over-the- counter(非处方的) medicines such as aspirin while others try popular home remedies(治疗)like herbal tea or chicken soup. Yet here is the tough truth about the common cold: nothing really cures it.So why do people sometimes believe that their re
12、medies work? According to James Taylor, professor at the University of Washington, colds usually go away on their own in about a week, improving a little each day after symptoms peak, so its easy to believe its medicine rather than time that deserves the credit, USA Today reported.It still seems har
13、d to believe that we can deal with more serious diseases yet are powerless against something so common as a cold. Recently, scientists came closer to figuring out why. To understand it, you first need to know how antiviral(抗病毒的) drugs work. They attack the virus by attaching to and changing the surf
14、ace structures of the virus. To do that, the drug must fit and lock into the virus like the right piece of a jigsaw(拼图), which means scientists have to identify the virus and build a 3-D model to study its surface before they can design an antiviral drug that is effective enough.The two cold viruses
15、 that scientists had long known about were rhinovirus(鼻病毒) A and BBut they didnt find out about the existence of a third virus, rhinovirus C, until 2006. All three of them contribute to the common cold, but drugs that work well against rhinovirus A and B have little effect when used against C“This explains most of the previous failures of drug trials against rhinovirus,” study leader Professor Ann Palmenberg at University of Wisconsin-Madison
