考研英语一芜湖市马塘区2023年高分冲刺试卷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)A woman professor was giving a lesson to her students on 1 management. As she raised a glass of water, everyone in the class 2 they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question. 3 , that was not the case. With a smile on her face, she asked the students, “How much do you think this glass of water weighs?”Answers called out 4 from eight to twenty ounces(盎司).She quieted the students down and then replied, “The absolute weight doesnt 5 . But it count how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my 6 . If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb. In each case, the 7 of the glass of water doesnt change, but the 8 I hold it, the heavier it becomes. why?”Lost in 9 , all the students kept silent and listened to the professor carefully.“Our stresses and 10 in life are like that glass of water. If we 11 our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will feel exhausted, even unable to 12 .” 13 you have to do in put all your burdens down , as 14 in the evening as possible. Dont carry them through the evening into the night; by doing this, we can get 15 next morning and are 16 to move forward.More often than not, life gets terrible when we 17 too much. And the moment you 18 your burdens, youll find yourself feeling so much more relaxed.So rather than being upset and feeling 19 for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to 20 yourself to anything that is not making you happy.1、Aclass Bemotion Ctime Dstress2、Awondered Bagreed Cexpected Dargued3、AMeanwhile BHowever CAnyhow DTherefore4、Aranged Breplied Cread Dexchanged5、Aexist Bchange Cincrease Dmatter6、Aarm Bhead Cleg Dstomach7、Ashape Bposition Cweight Dsize8、Abetter Blonger Cdeeper Dfurther9、Afantasy Bdiscussion Cdreams Dthought10、Adoubts Bjoys Cworries Dsurprises11、Acover Bcarry Chide Dshow12、Apick up Bwork out Ccarry on Dcatch on13、ASomething BAll CNothing Danything14、Aeagerly Bnaturally Cquickly Dearly15、Arefreshed Bentertained Cdepressed Damazed16、Aanxious Bable Cpassive Dambitious17、Afear Brest Cthink Dget18、Alet go of Blook down on Ccatch up with Dput up with19、Ahappy Bgreedy Cdisappointed Dsorry20、Aabandon Btreat Cdrive DhelpSection 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 1On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication of any coming severe weather. The first alert my husband, Jimmy and I got came around 9 p.m., from some scrolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. The wind began to roar, the bones of the house shook, and the power went out. We need to reach the strongest placethe closet on the first floor, which is wedged underneath a brick staircase.I didnt know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. I held the banister tightly and tried to move forward, but this intense pressure held me in place, with everything rattling and moving.As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out and the back wall of the house followed suit and tore off into the darkness outside. By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldnt get inside himself because of the wind. I grasped Jimmys arm, trying to bring Jimmy with the never-fully-shut door. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay.“Hold on! Hold on!” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to. All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldnt believe it was over.The storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured and we didnt lose any neighbor.1、The occurrence of the tornado was co