2023年湛江市麻章区考研英语一高分冲刺试题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)My husband Bills Grandma was in a nursing home when we moved back to Michigan. Grandma had been unable to walk for quite some time; now her eyesight was almost gone.Over the years Grandma and I had 1 many cards and letters. I knew how she enjoyed 2 in touch with people. Grandma would have me write letters to go in the cards she would send. And she would always have me 3 what I had written back to her. Grandma didnt have a problem with hearing then 4 she was always telling me, “That is not 5 how I said that!” I would then rewrite whatever I wrote in her exact words.Since I had some 6 time before Christmas, I asked Grandma if she would like to send 7 some Christmas cards. Grandma readily 8 . I rounded up several different kinds of cards. I knew she had friends and family who all had different 9 . I would take each card and 10 in detail the front of the card, then I would read the words inside.After 11 it over Grandma would tell me who she thought would like 12 card.After a while I 13 and I noticed that we had several nursing home 14 standing in the doorway. I started to notice as I read each card, the 15 on their faces and Grandmas face, too. Each one had a 16 smile and a faraway look in their eyes, as they were seeing the scenes in their minds eye.I thought when I went over to do the Christmas 17 I would be doing Grandma a favor, but it 18 that she did me a big favor. Ill always 19 this special memory of bringing some Christmas joy and pleasant 20 to Grandma and her fellow residents（居民）.1、Aexchanged Bchanged Ctraded Dswitched2、Asettling Blosing Ckeeping Dgetting3、Awrite Bdiscover Ctranslate Dread4、Awhen Bbecause Cwhile Dthough5、Acarefully Btruthfully Cspecially Dexactly6、Afree Bflying Cessential Dvaluable7、Afor Bup Cout Daway8、Aacknowledged Bagreed Cadmitted Drejected9、Aaddresses Badvantages Coccupations Dinterests10、Adescribe Bjoin Clook Dignore11、Atalking Bturning Ctaking Dthinking12、Aanother Beach Cone Dother13、Alooked down Blooked over Clooked up Dlooked through14、Agraduates Bvisitors Cpatients Dresidents15、Aattention Blook Cglance Dsight16、Agentle Bloose Cupset Ddevoted17、Atrees Bjobs Cdecorations Dcards18、Aturned to Bturned out Ccame over Dleft out19、Atreasure Badmire Cencourage Drecognize20、Astories Bfaces Cmemories DlettersSection 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 1Ancient Fish Returns to Illinois WatersThe Illinois Department of Natural Resources is returning a fish called the alligator gar to the states rivers.Some people call the fish a “living fossil.” Experts believe the fish first appeared during the Early Cretaceous period more than 100 million years ago.Randy Sauer is an Illinois state fisheries biologist. He says the fish disappeared from the states rivers in the 1990s, although they have continued to do well in southern states. Sauer says biologists want to bring the fish back to northern rivers “because it is important to have top predators to balance the species below them,” he said.Sport fishermen like to try to catch the alligator gar. Alligator gar are the second-largest freshwater fish in North America. They can grow as large as 2.7 meters and weigh more than 136 kilograms. Sauer says their large size is one reason they disappeared in the 1990s. Experts say alligator gars are “opportunistic feeders.” This means they will eat almost anything - including small turtles or ducks. They also eat invasive species such as Asian and silver carp. Sauer hopes the re-introduction of the alligator gar will help the states efforts to control the carp. Because gar can live up to 60 years, the program will continue to increase for many years.Sauer notes that female alligator gars do “not sexually mature until 11 years, and the male not till 6 or 7 years.”That means the biologists will try to raise and release a lot of fish early in the program to re-introduce them.“Were probably going to stock more heavily than 10 or 20 years down the road when hopefully these fish will find each other and start doing the job on their own,” Sauer says.Small devices have been placed in 7,000 of the fish so they can be observed after they are released into the waterways of Illinois. As it rains and floods, biologists exp