重庆市九龙坡区2023年考研英语一模拟预测试卷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) There was a businessman who was deep in debt and could see no way out. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, 1 if anything could save his company from bankruptcy (破产).Suddenly an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is 2 you,” he said. After listening to the businessmans troubles, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.” He asked the man his name, wrote out a 3 , and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as 4 as he had come.The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, 5 by John DRockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world! “I can 6 my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But 7 , he decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the 8 to work out a way to save his business, he thought.With renewed 9 , he negotiated better deals. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.Exactly one year later, he returned to the 10 with the uncashed check. At the 11 time, the old man appeared. But just as the businessman was about to 12 the check and share his success story, a 13 came running up and grabbed the old man. “Im so delighted I 14 him!” she cried. “I hope he hasnt been bothering you. Hes 15 escaping from the rest home and telling people hes John DRockefeller.” And she led the old man away 16 the arm.The businessman just stood there, 17 . All year long hed been buying and selling, 18 he had half a million dollars behind him.Suddenly, he realized that it wasnt the money, real or 19 , that had turned his life around. It was his 20 self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.1、AwonderingBsuspectingCestimatingDhesitating2、AattackingBdisturbingCinterruptingDamusing3、AnumberBnoteCletterDcheck4、AcalmlyBquietlyCquicklyDproudly5、AsignedBhandedCdrawnDdeposited6、AloseBremoveCfaceDignore7、AinsteadBthereforeCratherDmeanwhile8、AweaknessBbeliefCurgeDstrength9、AcreativityBpermissionCoptimismDcuriosity10、AhospitalBcompanyCstreetDpark11、AadvancedBappointedCannouncedDdelayed12、Ahand backBgive outCput outDturn over13、ApolicemanBbankerCnurseDguard14、AbeatBcheatedCpushedDcaught15、AneverBseldomCalwaysDoccasionally16、AonBinCbyDat17、AexhaustedBastonishedCdisappointedDexcited18、AconvincedBinformedCremindedDwarned19、AcreatedBimaginedCdiscoveredDdonated20、Along-lostBnon-existentCever-lastingDnewly-foundSection 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 Its 3 oclock and youve been hard at work. As you sit at your desk, a strong desire for chocolate overcomes you. You try to busy yourself to make it go away. But it doesnt. Here is another situation. Perhaps you are not feeling well. The only thing you want to eat is a big bowl of chicken soup, like your mum used to make when you were sick as a child. Food cravings are a strong desire for a specific type of food. And they are normal.Scientists at the website How Stuff Works compare hunger and cravings this way. Hunger is a fairly simple connection between the stomach and the brain. They even call it simply “stomach hunger”. When our stomachs burn up all of the food we have eaten, a hormone (激素) sends a message to one part of the brain for more food, which regulates our most basic body functions such as thirst, hunger and sleep. The brain then produces a chemical to start the appetite and you eat. Hunger is a function of survival.A craving is more complex. It activates brain areas related to emotion, memory and reward. These are the same areas of the brain activated during drug-craving studies. Because of this, some scientists call food cravings “mind hunger”. People often crave foods that are high in fat and sugar. Foods that are high in fat or high in sugar produce chemicals in the brain. These chemicals give us feelings of pleasure.In a 2007 study, researchers at Cambridge University found that dieting or restricted eating generally increases the possibility of food cravings. So, the more you deny yourself a food that you want, the more you may crave it. However, fasting (禁食) is a bit different. They found that eating no food at all for a short period of time lessened food cravings.So, the next time you crave something very specific, know that your brain may be more to blame than