考研英语一2023年临汾市隰县全真模拟试题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)I met my best friend Jayce when we were 11 years old.I was adopted and 1 by my grandparents and was new to the city.We immediately knew we were best 2 in 6th grade and we spent every single 3 together:playing dress up,going to school dances,doing gymnastics,the normal things 4 you are that age.When I was 16 years old,my family was put in a 5 situation.My grandfather got into the habit of 6 drugs.We lost everything;we lost our house,our car,everything.My grandmother 7 me to be able to make the choice of where I would 8 to live.She told me,“Krisi,I love you.Now you can come with me or you can 9 in an orphanage.” 10 I knew it,Jayce invited me to live with her and her family.I was able to finish high school and continue my 11 at our local university.It was a dream that 12 and the kindest thing I have 13 experienced.Not only did I get to spend every day with my best friend but I got to know what family truely 14 .I have never met more loving and 15 people.I was like one of their own.I felt a sense of 16 .What her mother and father did has 17 me to this day.They taught me about life,what to do and what not to do,very special 18 that I always treasure.They saved my life!I am 19 every single day for her and her family!I am truly 20 with the company of a friend like Jayce in my life.1、Acalmed down Bcheered up Cwatched over Dbrought up2、Astudents Bfriends Cneighbours Dactresses3、Acoin Bclass Cmoment Dvacation4、Awhen Bas if Cin case Dsince5、Apeaceful Bangry Cbad Dpleasant6、Ausing Bneeding Cselling Dstudying7、Aforced Bforbade Cwanted Dfrightened8、Arefuse Bcontinue Chappen Dwait9、Astay Bwork Cvolunteer Dplay10、AUntil BAs CAfter DBefore11、Atask Beducation Ccareer Dhobby12、Aturned up Bmade a difference Ccame true Dcame into being13、Aever Bthen Cnever Deven14、Aincludes Bpresents Clacks Dmeans15、Achallenging Baccepting Cdemanding Ddaring16、Adirection Bshame Cbelonging Ddignity17、Aaffected Bpraised Cchanged Dblamed18、Alectures Blessons Copinions Dconcepts19、Amoved Bstubborn Cexcited Dgrateful20、Aconcerned Bburdened Cconnected DblessedSection 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 1They may be teenagers, but 17-year-old Brittany Bull and 16-year-old Sesam Mngqengqiswa have grand ambitions(雄心) to launch Africas first private satellite (卫星) into space. They are part of a team of high school girls from Cape Town, South Africa, who have designed and built equipment for a satellite that will orbit over the earths poles scanning Africas surface.Once in space, the satellite will collect information on agriculture, and food security within the continent. Using the data/we can try to determine and predict (预测) the problems Africa will be facing in the future”, explains Bull, a student at Pelican Park High School.“Where our food is growing, where we can plant more trees and vegetation and also how we can monitor remote areas,” she says. “We have a lot of forest fires and floods but we dont always get out there in time. Information received twice a day will go towards disaster prevention.Its part of a project by South Africas Meta Economic Development Organization (MEDO) working with Morehead State University in the US.The girls (14 in total) are being trained by satellite engineers from Cape Peninsula University of Technology, in an effort to encourage more African women into STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).Scheduled to launch in May 2017, if successful, it will make MEDO the first private company in Africa to build a satellite and send it into orbit.Mngqengqiswa comes from a single parent household. Her mother is a domestic worker. By becoming a space engineer or astronaut, the teenager hopes to make her mother proud. “Discovering space and seeing the Earths atmosphere, its not something many black Africans have been able to do, or get the opportunity to look at I want to see and experience these things for myself,” says Mngqengqiswa.Her team mate Bull agrees, “I want to show to fellow girls that we dont need to sit around or limit ourselves. Any career is possible-even aerospace.”1、What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?AInformation provided by the satellite.BThe benefits brought by the satellite.CProblems Afr