考研英语一台安县2023年预测试题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)Dont Be Afraid to Make a Fool of Yourself and Reach out to StrangersGrowing up, I was glued to my mothers hip, ready to follow her wherever the world took us. I used to sleep at her 1 on the floor of her law school lecture halls while hundreds of 2 poured over scores of legal terms and historical court 3 . When my mother and I would travel to different countries together, she always talked to 4 . She would tell our life story and I was often 5 . I figured that people thought she shared too much and it was 6 .I now recognize the importance of the 7 my mother made. After she died, I received hundreds of phone calls from people all over the world. They 8 to offer their condolences (吊唁), but 9 to share how much my mother had meant to them. 10 she offered legal advice or simply shared a story, they 11 their heart to me about how she 12 their lives.When she first decided to buy an apartment and settled down in Paris, she 13 the writers of her favourite blogs and instantly began to form their own French 14 . They spent hours eating carefully selected cheeses and sipping (啜饮) coffee while 15 favorite Parisian restaurants. These are the people I now call my 16 aunts and uncles. What I judged as my mom making a 17 of herself was her way of sharing her 18 and charm. This taught me to 19 into fear and not to let self-criticism govern anything I do. Now, I speak up. I talk to strangers. I 20 myself and because of it, I receive.1、Atops Barms Celbows Dfeet2、Ateachers Bstudents Caudience Dviews3、Aaccidents Bevents Ccases Dstories4、Aforeigners Bstrangers Cneighbors Dlearners5、Aembarrassed Bexcited Cdisappointed Dsurprised6、Afortunate Binappropriate Cproper Dreasonable7、Aconnection Binventions Cdecision Dpossessions8、Awrote Bplanned Ccalled Dattempted9、Apurposely Busually Cmainly Daccordingly10、AWhenever BWherever CHowever DWhether11、Aturned out Bpoured out Cfigured out Dfound out12、Amade Bsaved Cearned Dchanged13、Acontacted Bbecame Cnamed Dinvestigated14、Acommunity Bclass Crestaurant Dorganization15、Aentering Bsearching Cexploring Ddiscussing16、AAmerican BEnglish CFrench DBritish17、Ashow Bfool Cgoal Ddream18、Aweakness Bshortcomings Cstrength Ddisadvantages19、Aback off Blive up Cget down Dstep forward20、Aextend Bunderstand Ctrust DshareSection 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 1Playing a musical instrument throughout: your life protects your hearing in old age, a Canadian study suggests. The study, published in Psychology and Aging, carried out hearing tests on 74 adult musicians and 89 non-musicians. It found a 70-year-old musicians hearing was as good as that of a 50-year-old who did not play.Hearing normally declines as people age. By 60, 10-30% of people have moderate hearing loss. By 80, that goes up to as many as 60%. Problems are particularly seen in the central auditory (听觉的) processing system, which is associated with understanding speech, especially when there is background noise.Previous studies have shown musicians have better hearing than non-players. But this research, by a team at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, looked at adults of all ages - from 18 to 91 - to see how people were affected as they aged. They carried out hearing tests on 74 amateur and professional musicians (who had played since the age of 16, were still practising and had been given formal music lessons) and 89 non-musicians (who had never played an instrument). Musicians were significantly better at picking out speech against noise.The researchers suggest that lifelong musicianship reduces age-related changes in the brain, probably due to musicians using their auditory systems at a high level on a regular basis.The head of biomedical research at Action on Hearing Loss, Dr Ralph Holme, said: “While this study suggests that musicians might be more able to cope with the consequences of hearing loss, it is far better to reduce damage in the first place by using appropriate ear protection. We have always campaingned for everyone who plays a musical instrument or listens to loud music to wear hearing protection, like earplugs, which reduce the risk of damaging your hearing permanently.”1、What can we learn from Paragraph 2?AA person aged 80 will