考研英语一2023年郑州市上街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。There are no ocean waves in St. Louis. We have to drive a long way to get to the ocean. Every summer we put our stuff and ourselves into the car and drive 1,000 miles to reach Vero Beach, Florida.Once we get there, its all about 1 at the beach. Ive wanted to be a 2 for a long time. My mom used to surf when she lived in Florida during college. I 3 my mom to let me surf, and she promised to find a surfing 4 for me. He found me instead.One day when my mom was taking an old surfboard to a surf shop for 5 , a surfer 6 the door open for her and helped her carry the board inside. They started 7 and she learned hes a surfing 8 My mom asked him if he had any 9 working with people with disabilities. He did and told her he would love to work with me. Thats how I 10 my friend, Coach Bill Bolton, in 2014.First Coach Bill taught me the pop-up. I had so much fun surfing with Coach Bill in 2014, 11 I didnt make it to 12 on the board.When we went to Florida this summer, I had more surfing 13 with Coach Bill. We worked hard on the sand and in the water. On our third day together we 14 our surfboards out past a sand bar where small waves were 15 I came close to standing each time, and on the last 16 of the day I got up on my feet and stayed up! I was so 17 ! So was Coach Bill.We went to the same surfing spot the next day. Guess what! I 18 so many times and rode wave after wave. Coach Bill called me a “surf goddess”. It was one of the 19 days ever! I hope my story 20 you to go surfing or to try something new. I know you can do it.1、AfunBfailureCtrialDsunlight2、AswimmerBriderCsurferDplayer3、AremindedBencouragedCtoldDbegged4、AfellowBcoachCadviserDdriver5、AexhibitionBmoneyCrepairDadvice6、AheldBkeptCletDmade7、AgreetingBlaughingCwalkingDtalking8、AstudentBloverCinstructorDguard9、AtroubleBinterestCrecordDexperience10、AmetBhiredCthankedDrewarded11、AhoweverBsoCandDbut12、AlyingBfloatingCstandingDmoving13、AlessonsBpleasureCskillsDtasks14、ApickedBtookCremovedDthrew15、AfallingBbreakingCrisingDfloating16、AminuteBwaveCtryDpart17、AhappyBshockedCjoyDfrightened18、Afell downBfailedCactedDgot up19、AlongestBgreatestChardestDfastest20、AinspiresBpushesCleadsDinfluencesSection 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 While elephants born without tusks (长牙)are not unheard of，they normally form just 2 to 6 percent of the population. However, that is not the case at Mozambiques Gorongosa National Park, where an astonishing 33 percent of female elephants born after the countrys civil war ended in 1992 are tuskless. While that may appear to be just a coincidence, Joyce Poole, an elephant behavior expert, has another theory. The researcher thinks we may be witnessing unnatural evolution of the species due to the constant hunting of elephants for valuable ivory.Poole says before the countrys 15-year-long civil war, the 100,000acre park was home to over 4,000 elephants. However, by the time the conflict ended in 1992, about 90 percent of them had been killed for ivory to help finance weapons (武器)and meat to feed the soldiers. Of the less than 200 survivors, over 50 percent of adult females had no tusks. Therefore, it is not surprising that the parks tuskless elephant population has grown greatly.This is not the first time researchers have observed a great change in the population of elephants. At Zambias South Luangwa National Park and Lupande Game Management Area， areas which were heavily hunted in the 1970s and 1980s, 35% of elephants 25 years or older and 13% of those younger than 25 are now without tusks. A 2008 study published in the African Journal of Ecology found that the number of tuskless females at the Ruaha National Park in Tanzania went from 10.5 percent in 1969 to almost 40 percent in 1989, largely due to illegal hunting for ivory.The recent ban on ivory in both the US and China should help get rid of, or at least reduce, elephant hunting. However, scientists are not sure how long it will take for elephants with a higher rate of tuskless females, to change the trend.1、What is the probable cause of the phenomenon mentioned in Paragraph 1 ?AIllegal hunting.BConstant farming.CA pure coincidence.DNatural evolution.2、Why did people kill so many elephants during the civil war in Mozambique?ATo get funds by selling ivory.BTo develop ne