考研英语一2023年滁州市明光市模拟预测试卷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)I stopped speaking because I found myself arguing all the time. After witnessing an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, I 1 using vehicles and started walking everywhere as a statement about 2 . I often kept getting into 3 about whether one could make a 4 and argued about how everyone should do what I was doing.On my 27th birthday, I decided not to speak for one day, as a kind of 5 to my community. When I woke up the next day, I didnt see any 6 to speak, so I didnt.A week later, people started getting 7 . My girlfriend wanted me to stop. My parents even got angry with me. But I didnt change my idea.On the 10th anniversary of not 8 ， I spoke for a day. I didnt want it to feel as if it wasnt a 9 . I was in California and I 10 my parents. My mother picked up and thought it was my brother 11 around. I had to prove it was me by telling her something only we knew. 12 not speaking for 17 years, I felt I had something to say. People came to 13 me. My first words were, “Thank you for being here.” But I didnt recognize my 14 .Having listened to thousands of people, I realized we had a 15 view of the environment. People always think its about planting more trees, but its more than that; its about how we treat each other, and that also 16 economic equality and civil rights.Now I give talks around the world. I started using 17 again. I still practise being 18 every morning. It reminds me to listen 19 ； not to judge what I think Im hearing, but to try to understand what people are really 20 .1、Aturned to Bthought about Cgave up Dinsisted on2、Apollution Bwaste Cexercise Dsupport3、Afights Btraps Cdilemmas Ddebates4、Apromise Bdifference Cplan Dliving5、Aencouragement Bbelief Cpunishment Dgift6、Areason Bsign Cchance Dlanguage7、Apuzzled Bdisappointed Cworried Dinterested8、Aarguing Briding Cspeaking Dfailing9、Awarning Bdisadvantage Cstrength Dchoice10、Amissed Bcalled Cvisited Dthanked11、Awalking Bcoming Cmessing Dhanging12、AThough BOnce CIf DAfter13、Ahear Bcomfort Cinstruct Dhelp14、Aparents Bvoice Cphoto Dhandwriting15、Avalid Bcorrect Cnarrow Duniversal16、Aproves Bincludes Cimproves Dinsures17、Aphones Bcomputers Cloudspeakers Dvehicles18、Asilent Bdeaf Cfriendly Dpatient19、Aconstantly Bproperly Clargely Dmerely20、Aworrying Bdoing Cadvising DsayingSection 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 1The belief that new technologies are causing the death of work is the idea that never goes away. Despite evidence to the contrary, we still view technological change today as being more rapid and dramatic in its consequences for work than ever before. But this is nothing new. People have always viewed the technological changes that take place during their lives as the most dramatic and dangerous that ever happened in history.In the 1930s, the British economist(经济学家) John Maynard Keynes predicted the widespread use of electricity would produce a world where people spend most of their time doing nothing. In the United States during the 1960s, the government repeatedly investigates fears that automatic machines would permanently reduce the amount of work available. In 1988, one Australian historian claimed that at least a quarter of the workforce would be without jobs within 10 years because of computers.Of course, none of these disasters came to pass in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, or anywhere else.Yet today, we are seeing the return of these predictions, with some experts claiming the world of work is once more undergoing radical and unprecedented change. They argue that robots and other workplace technologies are causing a reduction in the total amount of work available, or are bringing a more rapid pace of substitution of machines for humans than has been seen previously.But there is a little evidence to support such beliefs. Statistics show that the percentage of people in work, the number of hours they work, and how frequently they change jobs have remained remarkably constant over the past 20 years.This stability should not come as a surprise. There are good reasons why we should not expect new technologies to cause the death of work. New technologies always cause job losses, but that is only part of the story. What also needs t