2023年凯里市考研英语一统考试题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)I believe in respecting and thanking the dustmen. In my mind, they are the most 1 people all over the world. 2 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it took a while before the dustmen could get back to their jobs. There were a lot of 3 about why trash wasnt picked yp more quickly. Having lived in New Orleans for many years, I felt extremely 4 to see the city where I grew up turn into the biggest landfill(垃圾场) in the country.The dustmen finally came with excavators(挖掘机) and dump trucks to 5 their task. Maybe we should be in high spirits as they 6 the trash, but we couldnt in fact. We all had a strong sense of great 7 and loss as they loaded our once prized possessions into the back of the dump truck as useless 8 .My mother and I stood there, 9 the dustmen doing their jobs. We waited for that final feeling of 10 that there was no more trash to worry about, but it didnt come. As the man in the excavator 11 a piece of broken precious furniture, my mother suddenly burst out crying. Seeing this, the dustman 12 shut down the excavator and walked over to my mother to 13 her.A few minutes later, the man and my mother walked over to the excavator again. Then, I saw my mother actually 14 the excavator. She picked up our trash and dumped it into the dump truck. My mother was excited, and her tears of sadness and pain turned to tears of 15 . What he did made me very 16 . When all the work was finished, I sincerely 17 him.One year has gone, and thanks to the dustmen, the city looks 18 than expected. Now, whenever a trash truck blocks my path in the street, I usually express my 19 for the dustmen through 20 waiting for them to complete their job.1、Aconfident Bbeautiful Cambitious Doutgoing2、AUntil BAfter CWhile DIf3、Aconversations Bcomments Ccomplaints Dconcerns4、Afrustrated Bamazed Crelaxed Dscared5、Acompete Bchange Cconfirm Dcomplete6、Adivided Bremoved Cchecked Dpossessed7、Arichness Bkindness Csadness Dhappiness8、Atrash Bfurniture Ctruck Dgift9、Ahelping Bimagining Chearing Dwatching10、Aresponsibility Bsatisfaction Cdisappointment Dcuriosity11、Adug up Bshowed up Cgave up Dbrought up12、Aimmediately Babsolutely Cbasically Dprobably13、Ameet Brecognize Cappreciate Dcomfort14、Adestroy Bproduce Coperate Drepair15、Aforgiveness Bpanic Cjoy Danxiety16、Aangry Bconfused Cgrateful Dcurious17、Athanked Bhurt Cannoyed Dignored18、Auglier Bsmaller Cdirtier Dbetter19、Aworries Bexcitements Crespects Dtroubles20、Adoubtfully Bpatiently Cfearfully DstubbornlySection 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 David Cameron is urging todays youngsters to abandon French to concentrate on the tongue of the futureMandarin(普通话)。Cameron said: “I want Britain linked up to the worlds fast-growing economies. And that includes our young people learning the languages to seal tomorrows business deals.”“By the time the children born today leave school, China is to be the worlds largest economy. So its time to look beyond the traditional focus on French and German and get many more children learning Mandarin.” To strengthen his message , he quoted Nelson Mandelathe former president of South Africa who said “If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head; if you talk to him in his own language that goes to his heart.”Cameron said that a partnership between the British Council (英国文化协会) and Hanban will double the number of Chinese language assistants in the UK by 2016 and provide increased funding to schools of offering Mandarin as a language choice. In a development of the UKChina School Partnership programme , funding will also be provided for 60 headteachers to make study visits to China in 2014.In recent research the British Council found only 1% of the adult population speaks Mandarin to a level that allows them to conduct a basic conversation. Just 3,000 pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland entered for Chinese languages GCSEs in 2013, putting it far behind the traditional choices of French with 177,000, Spanish with 91,000 and German with 62,000 entrants(加入者), as well as Urdu, Polish and Arabic.Professor Dame Helen Wallace, the British Academys foreign secretary, said, “ a lack of qualified teachers could be a barrier to improve its popula