考研英语一2023年江西省抚州市金溪县考前冲刺试卷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)When I was just out of college, I managed to get my dream job as a trader in New York City on the floor of the American Stock（股票）exchange.Though it was a proud 1 ,the job was simply too physically 2 I must stand in a crowd every day, which often 3 me in a mindset（心态）that held me back.Manhattan is a walking town and its difficult to 4 when you have a disability. Taxis are expensive and riding the subway 5 dozens of steep steps to get below 6 .This left me only one 7 the bus.One night, after the 8 for my job, I was aching with self-pity 9 it started to rain on my walk to the bus stop. I became more and more 10 without an umbrella, thinking Id never 11 it in this city. Telling myself, this city is just too hard and maybe it is just not possible for a guy like me.And then, I 12 the most beautiful, short moment. A couple came rolling by on roller skates, hand 13 hand as they skated what seemed like the tango. They were all wet but they saw the 14 as an opportunity and romance.I suddenly became grateful for waiting in the rain because I 15 have missed this beauty 16 if I had been in a taxi or on the subway. This, although 17 , was an important moment on my journey to discovering the 18 of achieving health and happiness. When I change my mindset, 19 for a moment, to what is possible and work to get rid of the self-limiting beliefs that 20 my daily actions, I will be on the road to a healthier, happier life.1、Aadjustment Bachievement Cagreement Dtreatment2、Atiring Bboring Crelaxing Ddisappointing3、Areminded Bexpected Ctook Dleft4、Ago up Bget around Cset off Dshow up5、Arequests Bsupports Crequires Dsurrounds6、Aground Bstreet Ctown Dcity7、Achange Bchance Cidea Dchoice8、Astruggle Bwork Cexperience Dinfluence9、Abefore Bwhile Cwhen Dafter10、Anervous Bcurious Cscared Dupset11、Aget Bmake Cput Dwatch12、Arecalled Bobserved Cwitnessed Drealized13、Aon Bby Cto Din14、Arain Btree Cwind Dcloud15、Ashall Bwould Cneed Dmust16、Aexactly Binstantly Centirely Dsuddenly17、Astrange Bsmall Cnormal Ddifferent18、Ahumor Bhonest Cpower Dprinciple19、Astill Byet Calso Deven20、Aaffect Bfollow Cforbid DharmSection 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 The palm - forward (掌心向外) V sign, formed by raising and spreading the wrist two fingers, has three different meanings in American culture.The most popular meaning of the V sign was invented in 1941 by a Belgian, Victor De Lavalaye. Wanting a symbol for resistance to the Nazi occupation, he came up with the single letter V, which stood not only for his own first name, but also for English victory, Flemish virijheid, and French victoire. The symbolism of the sign spread very quickly, and Winston Churchill used it constantly in public appearance. Thus throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the gesture meant simply victory .The second meaning came in the 1960s. Because of its military implication, American antiwar protestors used the sign sarcastically (讽刺地) against the arms, so that it became known as the peace sign. In the 1970s, the W sign, which had lost its military implication, was a common greeting among freedom lovers , acid heads, political radicals, and ultimately, young people in general. So by about the middle of the 1970s, it no longer gave clue to the users philosophy.The third meaning is the oldest and least common. American children jokingly put V , which resembles horns, behind friends-heads in group snapshot. They are unknowingly reproducing something that southern Europeans would find highly offensive. This mischief, called horns of the Devil, is a variant of the European horns gesture, which is obscene （猥亵的). Here the w sign means Your wife has been cheating on you or, when placed behind anothers head, his wife has been cheating on him. In the United States, the gesture is typically given with the palm facing the viewer. The British use both this version and an older, palm - backward version ; the latter is obscene in American culture, and corresponds to the American finger. Churchill got some surprised stares in 1941 when, evidently unaware of the mean usage, he gave the palm - backward V to British troops. In England today you could have to be a social hermit not to understand the distinc