考研英语一2023年天津市宝坻区考前冲刺预测试卷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)阅读下面短文。从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Teaching is challenging and teaching college is often a mixed bag. Sometimes my class feels more like a cafeteria, where students come and go, _in the middle of my lectures. Mostly these students have entered college right out of high school. College seems to them like _a continuation of high school, _ the sense of newness that often drives curiosity and achievement.But there is a category of students that gives everyone reasons for _.They are the so called “nontraditional students” ：those who, for one reason or _， didnt go to college when they were 18. but many years later. Some years back in my teaching, while calling out names from the name list on the first day，I noticed a gray haired woman of about 70.She was wandering in the doorway, _ her new books like a schoolgirl.“Im not on the name list，” she volunteered. “But I was _if I could sit in for the first class, to see what marine (海洋) biology is about.” This womans eagerness _me, so I invited her to have a seat. I began the class with questions to get a (n) _of how much knowledge they were bringing to the course. As I questioned them about the difference between fishes and seagoing mammals, most of my new students remained _.But Natalie, the older woman, was on the edge of her seat, _answers.At the end of the class, she came up to me and apologized for being the “extra” student. She said，“Will you _ me another chance？” _ at losing her, I acted quickly to remove her _.“Ill see you next class，”I said.Natalie turned out to be a vital and _student.She commuted 50 miles each day to get to school, often in the severe winter, and never missed a class._this, she was enthusiastic about helping my younger students. Apparently these older students have the _over them. It lies in the broadth and depth of their path of life. After having _ numerous personal and professional barriers, they have an expansive world view. _ a return to school may, at first, be frightening for them, they tend to make it because they are _ great trouble to put their studies into an already full life.1、AneverBseldomCoftenDhardly2、Amore thanBno more thanCrather thanDother than3、AcreatingBinspiringCinvolvingDlacking4、AhopeBdesperationCangerDpity5、Athe otherBothersCanotherDnone6、AholdingBbuyingCbringingDfetching7、AhopingBexpectingCthinkingDwondering8、ApuzzledBembarrassedCimpressedDamused9、AplanBideaCconceptDsense10、AenthusiasticBcalmCinterestedDsilent11、AaskingBvolunteeringCrejectingDrepeating12、AlearnBmakeCofferDintroduce13、AAlarmedBRelaxedCRelievedDAnnoyed14、AconcernBcuriosityCattentionDconcentration15、AintelligentBhumorousCdiligentDopen-minded16、ARegardless ofBBut forCExceptDApart from17、AadvantageBexperienceCabilityDbelief18、Agot away fromBgot acrossCgot overDgot through19、AUnlessBUntilCWhenDWhile20、AdemandingBtakingCsparingDEscapingSection 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 Most adults firmly believe that as kids reach their teens, they start to take crazy risks that get them in trouble. Do teenagers simply love taking all risks much more than adults? A recent study suggests otherwise.Scientists designed a simple experiment involving 33 teenagers and three other age groups. In the experiment, the researchers tried to distinguish between two very different kinds of risk-taking. The first they called a willingness to take known risks (when the probability of winning is clear) and the second they called a willingness to take unknown risks (when the possibility of success is uncertain).The study offered participants the opportunity to play two kinds of games. They had the chance to win money, with one game offering a known risk and the other offering an unknown risk. On each round of the game, each participant had to choose between taking a sure $5 and known or unknown risks of winning a lot more. If on one particular round they had picked the $5 for sure choice, then they got $ 5. But if on that round they had chosen to take a risk, the rules of the game will determine whether or not they had won. If they did win, they went home with between $8 and $125. And, of course, if they lost, they went home with nothing.What the scientists found was really quite surprising. It turned out that the average teenager was very hesitant when risks were knownmore careful than college students or parents-aged adults, and about as