湖北省襄樊市谷城县2023年考研英语一押题密卷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)Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller_1_, faces practically every company trying to _2_ new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know. While banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally _3_ to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in _4_ for a share in future profits. This they do by _5_ stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of _6_ and organizations, both at home and overseas.When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. _7_, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to _8_ his money.Many of the _9_ needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not _10_. All these require _11_ spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries _12_ frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to the Stock Exchange.There is _13_ a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not _14_ the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange _15_ to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.1、AlevelBextentCscaleDbasis2、AprogrammeBprovideCdevelopDprepare3、AunexpectedBunwillingCunbelievableDuncertain4、AsearchBexchangeCvalueDcomfort5、AissuingBallowingCproducingDacquiring6、AimmigrantsBinvestigatorsCinheritorsDindividuals7、AIndeedBIn factCIn additionDInstead8、AeliminateBreflectCinvestDprofit9、ApropertiesBappliancesCfoundationsDservices10、AfunctionBexperienceCshareDlaunch11、AinvisibleBcontinuousClimitedDeconomical12、AthereforeBhoweverCneverthelessDotherwise13、AdefinitelyBalmostChardlyDprobably14、Aturn downBdepend onCtake overDput off15、AreleasesBforcesCleavesDexistsSection 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 Mobile phone users in China expected a pleasant surprise this month. Starting from October 1, a new policy adopted by the three giant cellphone operators China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom has allowed unused data from individual data packages to be carried over to the next month for use.At the beginning, users of the three telecommunication companies welcomed this policy, since they would have more free data to use in the next month. However, even before Chinese users could enjoy the free extra package, the users found that since the adoption of the policy, the original data limits seem to be far more easily swallowed up, which means there wouldnt be any unused data left for the next month. One user of China Unicom claimed that it took him only nine days to use up the data package of a month.Telecoms have become a necessity in modern life like water or power, and raising or lowering costs significantly affects peoples lives and finances. But disagreements between consumers and service providers cover discussion. It is too early to judge how long the disagreement between telecommunication companies and consumers over data packages will last, since, according to media reports, the measurement of data usage is difficult to track. Companies are using “user privacy” to avoid giving out any information.But reading through the companies posted online by cellphone users, we can sense the publics distrust of Stated-owned enterprises (SOEs). A survey done by the peoples Tribune Research Center in 2012 found that the publics negative impression of SOEs came from the belief that they only rely on government support and their employees usually do easy jobs but get higher pay, yet their sense of service is far behind private and foreign enterprises.The current argument over the data package of three State-owned telecommunication giants reflects the extent of public anger. Among the countrys anti-corruption campaign (反腐败运动) and reforms, it s