桂东县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)完形填空（共20小题；每小题15分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。It was half an hour before midnight on December 24th last year. I was a ticket-counter supervisor（主管）for a major airline and was looking forward to the 36 of my shift （轮班）at Stapleton International Airport in Denver. My wife was waiting up for me at home so that wecould 37 our gifts for Christmas.Just then, a very 38 gentleman went up to me. He asked how he could get toCheyenne, Wyoming. He had just arrived from Philadelphia and 39 his connecting flight. Ipointed him to the ground transportation area, where he could rent a 40 . And then I calledmy wife to let her know I would be home 41 .About fifteen minutes later, the gentleman 42 and informed me that all the buses werefull and there were no cars 43 . I told him that he had to stay for a night at the airport.Hearing that, he burst into 44 .I tried to make him calm down. He explained that his name was Tom, and that his only sonwas 45 ill at home and was not expected to 46 another year. He expected that this wouldlikely be the 47 Christmas with his son.I told Tom to 48 his luggage and wait for me at the gate. I was driving to Cheyenne. Icalled my wife Kathy, telling her about it and not to wait up for me. I drove fast 49 and wearrived in Cheyenne around 2:30 a. m.Kathy was still 50 me when I got home in the early morning. We traded gifts and thenour conversation 51 Tom. For Kathy and me, there was no 52 that driving Tom toCheyenne was the 53 choice. A couple of days later,I 54 a Christmas card with a picture of Tom and his family. Init, Tom thanked me for the special 55 he had received that holiday season, but I knew thebest gift was mine.1、AendBturnCroleDchange2、 AexpectBgetCexchangeDmake3、 AkindBhelplessCsadDworried4、 AmistookBmissedCcaughtDcontinued5、 AbusBflightCroomDcar6、AsoonBlateCearlyDlately7、 AleftBmovedCcameDreturned8、AreliableBpresentCavailableDacceptable9、 AlaughterBtearsCangerDsorrow10、AreallyBslightlyCseriouslyDunluckily11、 AsufferBliveCshareDgrow12、AlastBbestChappiestDhardest13、 AhandBfindCpackDcollect14、 AforawhileBallaroundC allthewayDfromtimetotime15、 AwaitingforBcaringforCthinkingofDdependingon16、ArememberedBrecalledCconcernedDcontained17、AideaBdoubtCpointDproblem18、AmainBonlyCniceDgreat19、 AreceivedBsentCsavedDdiscovered20、 AdriveBhelpCdealDgiftSection 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 Technology offers conveniences such as opening the garage door from your car or changing the television station without touching the TV.Now one American company is offering its employees a new convenience: a microchip implanted (植入) in their hands. Employees who have these chips can do all kinds of things just by waving their hands. Three Square Market is offering to implant microchips in all of their employees for free. Each chip costs $300 and Three Square Market will pay for the chip. Employees can volunteer to have the chips implanted in their hands. About 50 out of 80 employees have chosen to do so. The president of the company, his wife and their children are also getting chips implanted in their hands.The chip is about the size of a grain of rice. Implanting the chip only takes about a second and is said to hurt only very briefly. The chips go under the skin between the thumb and forefinger. With a chip in the hand, a person can enter the office building, buy food, sign into computers and more, simply by waving that hand near a scanner. The chips will be also used to identify employees. Employees who want convenience, but do not want to have a microchip implanted under their skin, can wear a wristband (腕带) or a ring with a chip instead. They can perform the same tasks with a wave of their hands as if they had an implanted chip.Three Square Market is the first company in the United States to offer to implant chips in its employees. Epicenter, a company in Sweden, has been implanting chips in its employees for a while.Three Square Market says the chip cannot track the employees. The company says scanners can read the chips only when they are within a few inches of them. “The chips protect against identity theft, similar, to credit cards.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the chips back in 2004，so they should be safe for humans, according to the company.In the future, people with the chips may be able to do more wi