湖南省郴州市2023年考研英语一考前冲刺预测试卷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)When I was a teenager I volunteered to pass out water at a local race. I was so excited to 1 all the different runners who passed by and quickly took a cup of water. Some walked past, some jogged past and a few 2 past.Watching so many 3 of people doing it, I thought maybe I could do it too! The next year I decided to 4 the race. With 5 running practice, I just wanted to finish.On the day of the race. it was terribly hot. Only after 2 miles, I felt sweat 6 off me and my legs swelling. I began to 7 ,Why am I doing this? What was I thinking? I must be 8 . For the following miles, I jogged. I walked, I jogged and walked. At times, I wonder if I could 9 . 10 the end, a 70-year-old man rushed past me, very 11 , and I felt a little 12 that I was more than 50 years younger than him and I couldnt 13 keep up with him. But then I realized something: he was running his race and I was running mine. How often in life do we 14 ourselves to others and feel disappointed in ourselves when we really 15 ?We are all unique human beings with unique 16 . Its really no good focusing on others race. I decided that I would not 17 running. and that one day I would be one of those 18 people who were still running races.As I crossed the finishing line, I was proud of myself. I didnt regret having such an experience. If you dont 19 others but get the lesson and grow, you are truly a 20 .1、Asee Binspect Cstare Dnotice2、Astruggle Bdragged Crushed Dmoved3、Astyles Branks Ctypes Draces4、Arun up Brun out Crun across Drun for5、Asome Blittle Cmuch Dany6、Apouring Btaking Cmelting Dblowing7、Adoubt Bremember Cimagine Dsuppose8、Afriendly Bcrazy Cgenerous Dtired9、Awin Bstop Cmake Dfinish10、AOn BAt CNear DBy11、Aslowly Bgently Cheavily Dfast12、Apleased Bfrightened Cdelighted Dembarrassed13、Ajust Beven Cstill Dalready14、Acompare Bdevote Crecommend Dshow15、Acouldnt Bwont Cshouldnt Dcant16、Asignificance Bpace Cprinciple Dconcept17、Ainsist on Blook up to Cput up with Dgive up18、Aelderly Bprofessional Cinternational Deducated19、Apersuade Bchange Cbeat Dfollow20、Alearner Bwinner Cdreamer DcompetitorSection 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 1While global warming and ocean acidification driven by pollution cause a real threat to sea creatures, climate change is not the primary driver threatening to cause the extinction (灭绝) of large ocean animals. It is humans that are threatening large sea creatures primarily by hunting and fishing them.Researchers findings reflect a phenomenon experienced by ancient land ecosystems (生态系统). These losses in the ocean are paralleling what humans did to land animals some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, when we wiped out around half of the big-bodied mammals on Earth, like mammoths, mastodons. saber-tooth cats and the like.The increasing threat to large groups of sea animals is a recent phenomenon. The researchers made this discovery by comparing characteristics of nearly 2,500 extinct sea vertebrates and mollusks alongside others currently in danger of extinction. They found that smaller sea animals were a little more likely than large ones to be killed off during five previous mass extinction eventsthe most recent of which was associated with a small planets strike some 65 million years ago.What was surprising to the researchers was that they did not see a similar kind of pattern in any of the previous mass extinction events that they studied.The study shows that a sixth mass extinction, which may already be underway, could kill off larger-bodied animals while leaving smaller ones behind. That could have a terrible long-term impact.Such removal of the largest animals from the modern oceans, which never happened in the history of animal life, may disturb the order of ecosystems for millions of years even at levels of taxonomic loss far below those of previous mass extinctions.This news should serve as a wake-up call for humans to fundamentally change the way they manage the oceans. That is to say, it is a warning of what will happen if we dont get our act together.Limiting industrialization of the oceans may be necessary to give threatened animals time and space to recover. Most whaling has been banned since the 1980s. We hav