上海市杨浦区2023年考研英语一巅峰冲刺试卷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)My 10-year-old son Arthur loves to help others. He never 1 to help people in need. His favorite pastime is to volunteer 2 at various charities in our community. One day, after purchasing the hamburger Arthur liked most, I tried to hurry him along when he 3 next to our cur to look at something. I turned to see what stopped him.Standing about five feet away was an old 4 in rags. Every few seconds he smiled and tried to speak to the people who were walking by. At that moment, he turned around and 5 my son watching him. 6 I could say anything, he smiled broadly and said, “Hey do you happen to have any spare 7 ?”Arthur 8 his empty pockets and then looked at me briefly. I shook my head-I hardly ever carry cash anymore. Arthur 9 and then he said something that took my breath away.“No, I dont. But are you 10 ? Do you like the hamburger?”Knowing the old man was hungry, Arthurs whole face 11 . “Good, here, you can have 12 .”I thought about how many people had 13 this man as he walked the streets that day. How many chose to act as if he hadnt existed? But my son? The one who just moments before had loudly begged me for the hamburger was now 14 giving his favorite away to a strange man because he was hungry. And he didnt 15 give the food and walk away. He engaged the man in a conversation. The smile on the mans face told me this was the real 16 for his happiness.Im really proud of you, Arthur. I think you 17 his day.”His 18 was beyond my expectation. “Its only 19 .”Its true that being kind doesnt have to be difficult me, or complex. As Arthur often reminds me, 20 is natural.1、Atries Bmanages Cagrees Drefuses2、Aactively Bcarefully Cseriously Dcuriously3、Aran Bpaused Cparked Dwalked4、Aemployee Bcustomer Cbeggar Dpoliceman5、Aspotted Brecognized Cheard Dunderstood6、AAfter BSince CUntil DBefore7、Afood Bchange Cpocket Dlime8、Achecked Bmended Creturned Dhanded9、Asighed Blaughed Ccried Dscreamed10、Aangry Bthirsty Chungry Dworried11、Aturned red Blit up Cfroze up Dgot up12、Ahis Byours Cmine Dhers13、Aminded Bwelcomed Cignored Dappreciated14、Awillingly Bpitifully Cbasically Dnormally15、Aeven Bjust Cyet Dstill16、Aexcuse Breason Cdoubt Dfear17、Amined Btroubled Cmade Dcreated18、Abehavior Bresponse Cdream Dattitude19、Anatural Buseless Cdifficult Dcalm20、Apatience Beffort Cskill DkindnessSection 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 1Shipwrecked PrayersA voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men aboard were able to swim to a small, desert-like island. Not knowing what else to do, the two survivors agreed that they had no alternative but to pray to God.However, to find out whose prayers were more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the island, and he was able to eat its fruit. But the other mans parcel of land remained barren.After a week, the first man became lonely and decided to pray for a wife. The next day, another ship was wrecked and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side of the island. But on the other side of the island, there was nothing.Soon thereafter the first man prayed for a house, clothes and more food. The next day, like magic, all of these things were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing.Finally, the first man prayed for a ship so that he and his wife could leave the island, and in the morning he found a ship docked at his side of the island.The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island, considering the other man unworthy to receive Gods blessings since none of his prayers had been answered.As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from Heaven booming, “Why are you leaving your companion on the island?”“My blessings are mine alone since I was the one who prayed for them,” the first man answered. “His prayers were all unanswered and so he doesnt deserve anything.”“You are mistaken!” the voice rebuked him. “He had only one prayer, which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessin