考研英语一2023年浙江省马鞍山市全真模拟试题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) If youve always hoped to give up your 9-to-5 job to move to Maine to operate a restaurant, then the Center Lovell Inn, built in 1805, could make your dream come true. All you need to make it yours is $125, a postage stamp, and a 200-word essay. In 1993, the then-owner of then inn, Smith, 1 an essay contest to find a successor(继任者). He chose Jack, who had been 2 a 50,000-square-foot restaurant in Maryland 3 winning ownership of the inn. But after more than two decades of managing the Center Lovell Inn, Jack, now 68, is ready to 4 . And hes planning his own essay contest of find the inns new owner. “There are a lot of very 5 people in the restaurant business who would like to have their own place but cant 6 it,” Jack told the Press Herald. “This is a way for them to have the 7 to try.” Jack hopes to 8 at least 7,500 participants, which would earn him more than $900,000. Jack has promised to stop 9 limits to the participants after the number of them 10 that figure 7,500. “If I get more participants, all the better,” he said. To apply, applicants(18 years of age and older) can 11 a 200-or-less-word essay on the 12 of why theyre the right fit, as well as a check for $125, to the Center Lovell Inn postmarked by May 7. Jack well 13 the applicants to a top 20 and from there, two anonymous(匿名) judges will select the new 14 of the inn. Jack is hopping to 15 the successor on May 1st, 2017. Jack is 16 that just as it did last time, the essay contest will 17 a fitting new owner for the centuries-old inn. He said people often asked him, “ What if you get the 18 person or what if this person lies to you? Our answer was and is, We trust. It was part of the 19 of this whole thing. And it 20 we were right.”1、AelectedBheldCattainedDundertook2、AobtainingBbotheringCadoringDmanaging3、AbeforeBafterCwhileDfor4、AdistinguishBretireCpauseDoperate5、AmiserableBthoughtfulCtalentedDarbitrary6、AaffordBaccumulateCadjustDpurchase7、AjusticeBprocedureCassumptionDopportunity8、AgovernBastonishCattractDcomfort9、AindicatingBsettingCreflectingDacknowledging10、AarrivesBstrikesCassociatesDreaches11、AsendBprepareCdonateDpreserve12、AreformBbreakthroughCcompetenceDtopic13、Akeep upBnarrow downCapply forDcast down14、AownerBauthorityCinterpreterDvolunteer15、AidentifyBremarkCannounceDresist16、AreasonableBthankfulCconfidentDconservative17、Apick outBteam up withCbring backDcall up18、AcurrentBinnocentCcautiousDwrong19、AmeansBdrawbackCmagicDhardship20、Alived onBturned outCmarked outDset asideSection 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 1The Australian postal service has apologized for delivering a letter half a century after it was sent from an island in the South Pacific.A couple from Adelaide found the faded postcard, from the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, resting on their doorstep under a gas bill. It bore a postmark of 1966 and was addressed to one “Robert Giorgio”, according to the Adelaide Advertiser. The postcard, which was written by someone named “Chris, reads: “I am enjoying myself greatly. The weather is very humid. Ill try and drop you a note in England.” Its stamp cost 3 francs, or around nine pence, and is understood to have been sent to the original owner of the house, whose whereabout is unknown.“It took a while to realize it was an old one,” said Tim Duffy, who bought the house 18 months ago with his wife, Claire, and believes it was built by an Italian man in 1963. “Then I checked the post date and its 1966.” He suspects the card may have been sent by someone who was travelling by boat. “Its fresh enough although it is a bit faded and its got some damage to the top left, which looks like a bit of water damage,” he said. Mr Duffy handed the letter back to Australia Post, who acknowledged that something had “gone wrong” and issued an apology. “It is clear that something went wrong 50 years ago after the postcard was posted in French Polynesia, and we apologise for the inconvenience,” a spkesman said.It is not the first time that a letter has taken vastly longer than expected arrive at its destination.A love letter sent by a British soldier during World War Two was apparently stuck in transit for more than 64 years before it reached RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.1、Who wrote the postcard?AClaire BChrisCTim Duffy DRobert Giorgio2、What does the postcard look like?ANice a