考研英语一广州市荔湾区2023年高分通关卷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)As children, our parents had dreams for us. They wanted us to do whatever was necessary to reach our highest 1 . Later in life, friends and spouses (配偶) may also have schedules for us. People close to us may have ideas about 2 we should live our lives. The ideas usually 3 love and the desire for us to be happy. Other times, they come from a place of need within them 4 it is the parent who wants us to 5 his or her dreams or the friend who wants us to play an alreadydefined role. We can appreciate and consider those peoples input, but 6 we must follow our own inner guidance.There may come a time when all the suggestions can become 7 . We may feel that the people we love dont approve of our judgment, which can 8 us to some extent. It can 9 the choices we make for our lives by making us 10 ourselves. It may also fill a void (空虚) with their 11 before weve had a chance to decide what we want. However, it can affect us 12 as well. We may have to 13 the feelings of resistance and to keep ourselves off from them. But we can take some time to 14 ourselves of any unnecessary doubts and go within to become 15 on what we desire for ourselves.We can tell our loved ones how much we 16 their thoughts and ideas, but that we need to live our own lives and make our own 17 . We can explain that they need to let us learn from our own experiences 18 to rob us of wonderful life lessons and the opportunity to 19 our own judgment. When they see that we are happy with our lives, they can see all we need them do is to share 20 with us.1、Aneed Bability Cpotential Dcreativity2、Awhat Bhow Cwhy Dwhere3、Acome across Bput away Clead to Dcome from4、Awhether Bif Cwhile Dwhen5、Aapply to Blive out Cmanage to Dspeed up6、Adesperately Bcomfortably Ceventually Ddeliberately7、Aunreliable Bunderstandable Cpractical Dunbearable 8、Aignore Bhurt Cdefeat Dabandon9、Aabuse Bmix Cinfluence Dreform10、Afight Bscold Cresist Ddoubt11、Awishes Bthemes Cbenefits Dsuccesses12、Auniversally Babnormally Cactively Deffectively13、Ahandle Brealize Cavoid Dknow14、Aremind Brid Cinform Dwarn15、Afalse Bvain Cnuclear Dclear16、Areward Bpraise Cappreciate Dtrust17、Adecisions Brequirements Creservations Dcommands18、Aless than Bmore than Cother than Drather than19、Aattain Bpolish Cinstruct Dmature20、Alesson Bjoy Copportunity DfreedomSection 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 1I am astonished at the way God knows when to send a special gift of encouragement at just the right time! It might be in a dream, a lost letter, a memory, or something found that wed forgotten about.My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. And summer after summer I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town where they lived. People knew everyone, their children, their pets, their ancestors.Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting She would make sandwiches and wed have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them. She loved knitting sweaters as well as making beautiful quiltsfor her grandchildren. I remember the small thimble ( 顶 针 ) she would place on her finger while doing her needlework.A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. Shed never forgotten my birthday!On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened and made me feel as if she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow；it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam (缝) that I carefully opened, and, to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing h into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff (抖松), to place on my bedspread (床罩) that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others Id collected over the years. What a p