2023年临夏市考研英语一预测试题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 had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I 1 whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a 2 writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our 3 selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and promised to 4 them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he even 5 ?Thinking back on the 6 , I recalled giving my future self some advice. When youre eighteen Years old, twenty-eight seems like a 7 age, but I wasnt feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had 8 me to be.When the letter finally reached me, I opened it 9 . It began, How much do you bet this letter will never get to you? It continued to greet me casually 10 we were having an IM (instant messaging) chat. As a senior in high school, facing the 11 SATS and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so 12 ! She was apparently not quite happy and hoped I wouldnt worry so much in the future, and that I wouldnt forget to be present and 13 my life! 14 to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands of me, or expectations I might have 15 meet. Instead, she wrote, Ill 16 whatever you do. Even if you are not the one Im imagining now, Ill support you, because maybe 17 Im imagining is someone else, but youre not someone else, youre me.I was 18 , and tears welled up in my eyes at this 19 through time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best version of myself that I could be. 20 , I came to realize what I would have accomplished in ten years would pale in comparison(相形见细)to how Id feel and who Id be.1、AbelievedBbetCdoubtedDconsidered2、AhopelessBcreativeCurgentDtough3、AinnerBhappyCfutureDyoung4、AcorrectBmailCanswerDwrite5、ArememberBunderstandCmindDremain6、AapplicationBcommentCstudyDletter7、Agrown-upBhappyCmade-upDpromising8、ApromisedBconvinceCencouragedDexpected9、AcalmlyBcautiouslyCeagerlyDnaturally10、Aeven ifBso thatCnow thatDas if11、AappearingBarrivingCapproachingDapproving12、AdepressedBambitiousCcarefreeDstressed13、AenjoyBvalueCstartDearn14、AContraryBHonestCSurprisedDStrange15、Atried toBfailed toCmanaged toDdetermined to16、Astand forBstand withCstand byDstand out17、AwhatBwhoCwhichDthat18、AguiltyBtouchedCembarrassedDnervous19、Aself-acceptanceBself-serviceCself-defenseDself-concern20、ABesidesBThereforeCThenDHoweverSection 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 It is hard to imagine that such a small country, the size of Indiana with the population of Alaska, tucked in the Himalaya Mountains, accessible only by two airplanes, is the “Happiest Country in the world and has one of the fastest growing GDPS in the world. This country is Bhutan, “Land of the Thunder Dragon”, which is located in South Asia and is encompassed by India, China, and Nepal.Bhutan is the last standing Buddhist Kingdom in the World and, until recently, has preserved much of their culture since the l7th century by avoiding globalization and staying isolated from the world. Internet, television, and western dress were banned from the country up until ten years ago. Over the past ten years globalization has begun to change in Bhutan, but things remain perfectly balanced.Bhutan is the only country in the world that has a GNH, which refers to “Gross National Happiness.The process of measuring GNH began when Bhutan opened up to globalization. It measures peoples quality of life, and makes sure that “material and spiritual development happen together.”Bhutan has done an amazing job of finding this balance. Bhutan has continually been ranked as the happiest country in all of Asia, and the eighth Happiest Country in the world according to Business Week. In 2007, Bhutan had the second fastest growing GDP in the world, at the same time as maintaining their environment and cultural identity.In 2008,in Bhutans first democratic election,28-year-old Jigme KhesarNamgyel Wang Chuck was elected president of Bhutan. He promises to “maintain a stance (立场)of protection against the worst aspects of globalization, maintaining the Gross National Happiness.”But Jigme himself is no stranger to globalization. He attended high school at Phillips Academy and university at Wheaton College and then graduated from Oxford.1、The underlined word “encompassed in the first paragraph most probably means _ .AcoveredBsurroundedC