考研英语一2023年江苏省徐州市铜山县高分冲刺试题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)Few other nations are so much interested in horse racing as the English. The famous races Ascot are held every year and followed by sports fans all over England. The king or the queen also attends 1 and presents the winner with a gold cup. To 2 this gold cup is the dream of every owner of a race horse. All newspapers, great and small, are full of detailed description of the 3 , and the name of the 4 winner of the Ascot cup is pronounced by everyone 5 of a great hero.It happened once, however, some seventy years ago, that the gold cup was stolen a few days before the race! The police 6 for it all over the country but could not find it.Just at the time, Mark Twain, the witty American writer, 7 England. He was 8 by an England Literary Society to be 9 at a dinner given in his honor. After dinner the president of the society rose to propose a toast to Mark Twains health and 10 in every way the talent of the 11 American. Mark Twain 12 started his speech with the following words:“Gentlemen, I thank you for the great honor you have done me, 13 I very much doubt whether all your countrymen join you in your 14 welcome. When I arrived at Dover yesterday, and 15 my foot in “Merry Old England, the first thing I saw was a newspaper poster and on it, 16 my great surprise, I read two 17 printed in big red letters:MARK TWAIN ARRIVES!ASCOT CUP STOLEN!“These two announcements stood so closely together that it 18 seemed, gentlemen, as if some people in this country may be sure that my 19 had something to do with the disappearance of the gold cup!” This witty speech of the famous American author was met with a shout of 20 .1、Ait Bthem Cthat Dthis2、Ahold Bkeep Ccatch Dwin3、Arace Bwinner Cproblem Dnations4、Agood Blucky Cgreat Dbrave5、Aas this Blike that Clike those Das it6、Asearched Basked Cwaited Dcared7、Areached in Bwent into Carrived in Dgot in8、Aseen Bvisited Cinvited Dforced9、Apresent Blate Cabsent Dfree10、Asuggest Bpraise Ccheck Dunderstand11、Atiring Bselfish Cfamous Dshy12、Ain reply Bin cash Cin short Din time13、Aas soon as Bas though Ceven if Din case14、Aindifferent Bwarm Cviolent Dcold15、Aset Bgot Cwent Dstarted16、Afor Bto Cwith Dby17、Aarticles Bpassages Cparagraphs Dheadings18、Asuddenly Bhardly Creally Dmainly19、Aarrival Bprinciple Cexpression Dattitude20、Ainterest Bbreath Canger DlaughterSection 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“Educational researchers, political scientists and economists are increasingly interested in the characteristics and skills that parents, teachers and schools should foster in children to increase chances of success later in life,” said lead author Marion Spengler, PhD of the University of Tubingen.” Our research found that specific behaviors in high school have long-lasting effects for ones later life.”Spengler and her co-authors analyzed data collected by the American Institutes for Research from 346, 660 U. S. high school students in 1960, along with follow-up data from 81,912 of those students 11 years later and 1,952 of them 50 years later. The initial high school phase measured a variety of student behaviors and attitudes as well as personality characteristics, cognitive abilities, parental socioeconomic status and demographic(人口统计的)factors. The follow-up surveys measured overall educational attainment, income and occupational prestige(声望).Being a responsible student, showing an interest in school and having fewer problems with reading and writing were all significantly associated with greater educational attainment and finding a more prestigious job both 11 years and 50 years after high school. These factors were also all associated with higher income at the 50-year mark. Most effects remained even when researchers controlled parental socioeconomic status, cognitive aibility and other broad personality characteristics such as conscientiousness.While the findings werent necessarily surprising, Spengler noted how reliably specific behaviors people showed in school were able to predict later success.Further analysis of the data suggested that much of the effect could be explained by overall educational achievements, according to Spengler.“Student characteristics and behaviors were rewarded in high school and led to higher education