考研英语一2023年连云港市模拟预测试卷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) I believe that the stories we tell our children shape the future stories of their lives.As a father of four, I consider storytelling a vital part of family life because it provides 1 nourishment (营养) children need. However, thats really not 2 Im talking about.All the bedtime storytelling I did to my kids was just 3 the groundwork for the lives I wanted them to have. With my kids, the typical bedtime stories, like Snow White and Little Red Cap, 4 the stories of my own life. One 5 like this: Uncle Rick fell asleep on the bus coming home from school. My Dad had to run after the bus, 6 and begging the bus driver to 7 him. My children never tired of hearing them. Soon, the place of the storytelling changed from the 8 to the dinner table.My stories are 9 of who theyre now. They like to repeat them at family get-togethers and I 10 theyve learned valuable life 11 during the retelling. Theyre beginning to tell their own stories now too. Theres 12 sweeter to my ear than hearing my twenty-one-year-old kids say: “Remember the time when.” Its like a(n) 13 of the old scenes.These stories built a 14 of family that could never have been 15 in any school. What my kids were 16 in these stories was the 17 that they were part of something larger. 18 to me, these stories gave me a way to 19 each child with the other and then with me. This is how we 20 present the world to them and finally begin to change it.1、AphysicalBabundantCtemporaryDimaginative2、AwhatBhowCthatDwhen3、ArecoveringBexploringClayingDarranging4、Agave way toBkept in withCset apart fromDmade up for5、AmovedBwentCspokeDpassed6、AwhisperingBcursingCshoutingDmurmuring7、AwakeBhitCamuseDdisturb8、AofficeBliving roomCplaygroundDbedroom9、AwholeBoneCnoneDpart10、AdoubtBrememberCimagineDbelieve11、ArulesBlessonsCexperiencesDpurposes12、AnothingBsomethingCeverythingDanything13、AreappearanceBchallengeCoriginDstandard14、AchangeBfutureCsenseDmodel15、AobservedBtaughtCignoredDimproved16、Aplaying withBturning downCsetting asideDpicking up17、AexplainingBunderstandingCleavingDteaching18、AHoweverBSoCButDThough19、AuniteBcompareCmatchDconcern20、AlastBsecretlyCfirstDimmediatelySection 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 Pigeons in London have a bad reputation. Some people call them flying rats. And many blame them for causing pollution with their droppings. But now the birds are being used to fight another kind of pollution in this city of 8.5 million.“The problem for air pollution is that its been largely ignored as an issue for a long time,” says Andrea Lee, who works for the London-based environmental organization Client Earth. “People dont realize how bad it is, and how it actually affects their health.” Londons poor air quality is linked to nearly 10,000 early deaths a year. Lee says, citing(引用)a report released by the city manager last year. If people were better informed about the pollution they re breathing, she says, they could pressure the government to do something about it.Nearby, on a windy hill in Londons Regents Park, an experiment is underway that could helpthe first week of flights by the Pigeon Air Patrol. It all began when Pierre Duquesnoy, the director for DigitasLBi, a marketing firm, won a London Design Festival contest last year to show how a world problem could be solved using Twitter. Duquesnoy, from France, chose the problem of air pollution.“Basically, I realized how important the problem was,” he says. “But also I realized that most of the people around me didnt know anything about it.” Duquesnoy says he wants to better measure pollution, while at the same time making the results accessible to the public through Twitter.“So”, he wondered, “how could we go across the city quickly collecting as much data as possible?” Drones were his first thought. But its illegal to fly them over London. “But pigeons can fly above London, right?” he says. “They liveactually, they are Londoners as well. So, yeah, I thought about using pigeons equipped with mobile apps. And we can use not just street pigeons, but racing pigeons, because they fly pretty quickly and pretty low.”So it might be time for Londoners to have more respect for their pigeons. The birds may just be helping to improve the quality of the citys air.1、What can we infer about Londons air quality from Paragraph 2?ALon