2023年枣强县考研英语一预测试题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)A comfort zone, particularly for students in high school, serves as a non-risk, no-failure and non-rejection zone. It 1 that most teenagers are not 2 to extend themselves or take risks in their life and they 3 want to escape from their parents.My first 4 of being thrown out of my comfort zone was in my high school. Many of my friends in the first year had started to 5 , regardless of the results, with alcohol, drugs or other 6 things. For them, it was 7 to care more about alcohol, parties or girlfriends/boyfriends rather than their 8 , study or other friends. That was not the case with me. None of my friends had the determination to 9 their risky behavior, including pressure in the new group and the new comfort zone of going along with new friends. 10 , they simply replaced one comfort zone with another riskier one with potentially severe results. Those had little 11 for me.I considered myself to be smarter than my old friends and was trying to develop 12 and diverse interests. I threw myself into my 13 and spent a long time in the library. I took an active part in community service. I gained confidence and the rewards of my study 14 my old friends wandered in school, with little thought or concern for their 15 . Could they support themselves in the future? Because of our 16 opinion, interests and values, the only 17 of our friendship, we chose to end it. I couldnt 18 their group just to be accepted. 19 I went through a high school students worst experiencehaving no peer（同龄人）group.A quote from the television series Boy Meets World 20 my personal experience with peer groups: “Lose one friend, lose all friends, but dont lose yourself.”1、Areflects Ballows Cnotes Ddetermines2、Aopen Bwilling Cproud Ddevoted3、Aalready Byet Cstill Deven4、Agame Bgrade Cexperience Dexample5、Acompare Badjust Cexperiment Dfight6、Apainful Bpowerful Cstrange Dunhealthy7、Acool Bwise Cunique Drare8、Aholidays Bfamilies Cprojects Dbusinesses9、Aexhibit Badmit Cplan Dstress10、AUnfortunately BSurprisingly CHopefully DInterestingly11、Adanger Bregret Cdoubt Dappeal12、Apopular Bstrong Cnew Dclose13、Adiscovery Bhabit Cstudy Dmemory14、Aif Bbecause Cthough Dwhile15、Afuture Bjourney Cfriendship Dwealth16、Alegal Bdifferent Cpoor Dpublic17、Asystem Btrend Cbasis Ddesign18、Amake up for Bkeep away from Clook down on Dgo along with19、ABy no means BOn the contrary CAs a result DIn addition to20、Aenjoys Bexplains Csends Dgathers.Section 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 entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a complicated idea until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽)or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the hundred most important books of Western Civilization. More than anything else in my life, the professor told the reporter with finality, these books have made me all that I am. That was the kind of words I couldnt ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Platos The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信)of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that