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1、考研英语一泉州市鲤城区2023年考前冲刺试卷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) As I sat motionless on the steps of the pool, watching everyone else swim back and forth, I realized that I had spe
2、nt most of my life watching others enjoy themselves. It was then that I 1 a little girl staring at me with a look of confusion. I smiled at her, hoping to 2 the ice by talking to her. Unfortunately, my 3 failed and she just kept on staring. My 4 increased as a little boy swam up to me and said, “I f
3、eel sorry for you.”After the 5 , a thought struck me, I had to change 6 the world viewed me. Because it was children who stared at me the most, I decided to write a childrens book that taught them about 7 in a fun way. This is when KatGirl, a super hero in a 8 who helps children that are being bulli
4、ed, came into my mind.I quickly 9 inside my apartment and began creating the story. As I wrote each word, I could 10 my future as a world-renowned author and public speaker. My excitement 11 like wildfire. Over the next two years, the story 12 many changes before it saw the world in the spring of 20
5、11. My perseverance 13 paid off.One day I was invited to speak to the students at a neighboring school. I confidently wheeled into a classroom filled with students who 14 at me just like the little girl in the pool. “How do you feel when you see me?” I asked them. The kids bravely 15 “ I feel sorry
6、for you.”I opened my book and started reading. Immediately I noticed the childrens stares turned to 16 . “ How do you feel when you see me?” I asked again. Without 17 they replied, “You are so cool! Does your 18 fly too?” I just smiled, “No, not yet, but maybe some day.” I knew in my heart that this
7、 was 19 . The past two years had proven to me that with 20 anything is possible.1、AsuggestedBnoticedCwatchedDappreciated2、AforgetBbreakCremoveDdeliver3、AprojectBangerCadviceDattempt4、AreliefBcuriosityCawkwardnessDencouragement5、AencounterBcompetitionCargumentDinterview6、AhowBwhatCwhenDwhy7、Adisabili
8、tiesBpotentialsCpaintingsDmanners8、ApoolBcarCwheelchairDspaceship9、AwalkedBwheeledCrushedDraced10、AregardBrealizeCpictureDconsider11、AfoldedBrecoveredCspreadDdeclined12、Aturned downBwent throughClooked upDgot around13、AgenerallyBcarefullyCseparatelyDeventually14、AcalledBstaredCglimpsedDlaughed15、Agr
9、eetedBagreedCcontinuedDresponded16、AsmilesBdoubtsCjokesDtears17、AhesitationBdiscussionCintentionDimagination18、AbodyBchairCdreamDbook19、AfunnyBstrangeCtrueDfalse20、AgenerosityBpopularityCharmonyDdeterminationSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the q
10、uestions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Decades before the first unaccompanied child was put on a plane to grandmas in the care of a flight attendant, a few resourceful parents accomplished the same end by simply dropping their kids
11、in the mail.This was in the earliest days of the parcel post service, which launched in 1913. Before that, U.S. Postal Service packages were capped at four pounds, which limited the goofy things people tried to send by post.But when the parcel service began, all kinds of cargo showed up in the mail
12、stream, including coffins, eggs, dogs and, in a few cases, human young.According to National Postal Museum historian Nancy Pope, the first known case of a mailed baby was in 1913 when Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beauge of Glen Este, Ohio, shipped their 10-pound infant son to his grandmothers home about a mil
13、e away, paying 15 cents in postage and springing for $50 in insurance (because they were worriers).But some children were mailed much farther, Pope said. Edna Neff of Pensacola, Fla., was 6 when she was packed off or packaged off to her fathers home in Christiansburg, Va., 720 miles away.The preciou
14、s parcels werent truly parcels in the brown-paper. Instead they were more like companions in the arms of their carriers or walked along the route(路线). But the most famous mailed child, May Pierstorff, was indeed sent by an Idaho railway mail car in 1914 with the appropriate stamps stuck to her trave
15、ling coat. Mays picture survives, but no physical evidence of her trip. “We would sure love to have that coat,” Pope said.In 1914, the postmaster general instituted a rule about the mail that stands to this day: no humans. But that didnt stop an ambitious thief from crating himself up and shipping himself airmail. When William DeLucia, packed in a trunk labeled “Musical Instruments” along with food and an oxygen tank, was airborne, he climb
