2023年九江市星子县考研英语一全真模拟试题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) It was an extraordinarily busy time of year. I felt some 1 to head straight home after a long meeting. So I headed to the 2 nearby for some therapeutic (治疗性的)hiking. As I reached the top and admired the view, my unclear mind 3 .Re-energized, I knew that I could deal with the 4 that waited for me upon my 5 .When I arrived back in the office the next day, I was full of energy, and finished my work 6 .It was almost 20 years ago that I learned how 7 it is for me to carve out time to escape to the wild. I had finished my Ph.D, 8 soil and water conservation in Honduras, but I wasnt sure what 9 I wanted to have. So, I decided to act on a dream I had been nursing for a few years, 10 my mom showed me a magazine article about a man who had 11 around America. I figured that I could 12 cycling with research for a book on American agriculture while I worked out my next career step.So I did it. During the cycling 13 , I found the clearness I needed to 14 my next career move. Talking with farmers I met along the way, I learned that their biggest 15 was selling their produce. I decided to broaden my 16 from land management to improving farmers access to markets. My 17 interest led to working for a nongovernmental organization and I did eventually 18 a book on. American agriculture.The 19 is to find your source of inspiration and make good use of it. For me, I always get nourishment(营养)from being 20 in the outdoors.1、ApressureBdangerCshameDembarrassment2、AforestBparkChospitalDmountain3、AcalmedBwanderedCdevelopedDappeared4、AmeetingBchangeCworkDtime5、AreplyBreturnCrelaxationDrecovery6、AsuccessfullyBcasuallyCanxiouslyDconstantly7、AstrangeBimportantCdifficultDinteresting8、AcontinuingBchoosingCstudyingDsupporting9、AtourBbookCcareerDmajor10、AunlessBifCthoughDsince11、ArunBcycledCdrivenDflown12、AcombineBcompareCreplaceDpractise13、AcompetitionBhistoryCperformanceDtrip14、Ainsist onBput downCfigure outDlearn from15、AchallengeBprogressCadventureDsacrifice16、AexperienceBfocusCdiscussionDsearch17、AdeepBparticularCpersonalDnew18、AbuyBborrowCpublishDnotice19、AreasonBproblemCresultDkey20、AactiveBaloneCconfidentDbraveSection 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 1Robert Todd Duncan was born in 1903 in the southern city of Danville, Kentucky. His mother was his first music teacher. As a young man, he continued his music study in Indianapolis, Indiana.In 1930, he completed musical education at Columbia University in New York City. Then he moved to Washington. For fifteen years, he taught music at Howard University in Washington. At that time, not many black musicians were known for writing or performing classical music. Teaching at Howard gave Duncan the chance to share his knowledge of classical European music with a mainly black student population. He taught special ways to present the music. These special ways became known as the Duncan Technique.Besides teaching, Duncan sang in several operas with performers who were all black. But it seemed that he always would be known mainly as a concert artist. However, his life took a different turn in the middle of 1930s. At that time, the famous American music writer George Gershwin was looking for someone to play a leading part in his new work Porgy and Bess. A music critic (评论家) of The New York Times newspaper suggested Todd Duncan. Duncan had almost decided not to try for the part as he knew it would not be easy to get it. But he changed his mind. He sang a piece from an Italian opera to Gershwin. He had sung only for a few minutes when Gershwin offered him the part. He became famous because of the part in Porgy and Bess.Todd Duncan gained fame as an opera singer and concert artist. But his greatest love in music was teaching. When he stopped teaching at Howard, he continued giving singing lessons in his Washington home until the week before his death.1、What is this passage mainly about?AWhat Robert Todd Duncan loved most.BHow Robert Todd Duncan became famous.CRobert Todd Duncan and his musical productions.DA brief introduction to Robert Todd Duncan.2、What happened to Duncan in the middle of 1930s?AHe gave up teaching at Howard University.BHe was introduced by The New York Times in detail.CHe was asked to be in charge of the opera Porgy and Bess.DHe was given a big opportunity to become an opera singer.3