2023年山东省济南市平阴县考研英语一模拟预测试卷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)When Athaya Slaetalid first moved from Thailand to the Faroe Islands, where winter lasts six months, she would sit next to the heater all day:People told me to go 1 because the sun was shining but I just said: No! Leave me alone, Im very 2 .Moving here six years ago was tough for Athaya 3 , she admits. She 4 her husband Jan when he was working with a Faroese friend who had started a business in 5 .Jan knew 6 that bringing his wife to this very different 7 , weather and landscape would be challenging.I had my 8 , because everything she was leaving 9 everything she was coming to were opposites, he admits. But knowing Athaya, I knew she would 10 .There are now more than 300 women from Thailand and Philippines living in the Faroes. It doesnt 11 like a lot, but in a population of just 50,000 people, they now 12 the largest ethnic minority in these 18 islands, located between Norway and Iceland.In recent years the Faroes have experienced population 13 , with young people leaving, often in search of education, and not returning. Women have 14 more likely to settle abroad. As a result, according to Prime Minister Axel Johannesen, the Faroes have a gender deficit with 15 4,000 fewer women than men.This, 16 , has lead Faroese men to look 17 the islands for romance. Many, though not all, of the 18 women met their husbands online, some through commercial 19 websites. Others have made connections through social media networks or existing Asian-Faroese 20 .1、Aoutside Binside Caway Doff2、Ahot Bcold Cwarm Dcool3、Aat last Bat once Cat first Dat length4、Awould find Bhad found Cwould meet Dhad met5、AIceland BPhilippines CFaroes DThailand6、Aahead schedule Bin advance Cwithout hesitation Din particular7、Acountry Bnation Cculture Dminority8、Aconcerns Bconflicts Cbeliefs Dproblems9、Abut Band Cwhile Dwhen10、Amake Bget Chandle Dcope11、Asound Bhear Clook Dappear12、Aconsist of Bbelong to Cmake up Dbuild up13、Adecline Bincrease Cboom Dfailure14、Ashown Bremained Cproved Dtended15、Amostly Btotally Cexactly Dapproximately16、Ahowever Bthen Cactually Dinstead17、Awithin Bfaraway Cthroughout Dbeyond18、AEuropean BAsian Cforeign Dpoor19、Aknowing Bplaying Cdating Dmarrying20、Acouples Bwives Chusbands DfamiliesSection 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 first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city. In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as masterpieces.In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street crowds who were concerned with marking their territory(领地). They worked in groups called “crews” and called what they did “writing” the term “graffiti” was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time that it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.The debate over whether graffiti is art or deliberate damage is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone elses property it becomes a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti destroyers out there,” he said recently, “and your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.” On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities livelier.For decades graffiti has been a springboard to international fame for a few. Jean-Michel Basquiat began sprayi