考研英语一2023年偃师市预测密卷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)An old man had been working for many years for a town. His job was to clear away natural waste from the pool water in the hills, which made up the lovely river flowing through the town nearby. Quietly and 1 , the old man guarded the hills, 2 the leaves and branches, and cleaned up the dirt that would have 3 and polluted the fresh flow of water . The town soon became a popular attraction for tourists. Elegant swans (天鹅) floated along the clear river and the view was so beautiful 4 words.Years passed. One evening the town 5 met. As they reviewed the budget, one mans 6 caught sight of the salary 7 being paid to the seldom seen keeper of the river. He asked , “Who is the old man? Why do w 8 to employ him? No one in town ever 9 him. For all we know, the strange keeper of the hills isnt doing his job. His position isnt 10 any longer.” Then they voted to 11 the man.For several weeks, nothing changed.By early autumn, the trees began to 12 their leaves. Small branches broke off and fell into the pools of the hills, 13 the flow of the shining water. One afternoon, someone noticed a slight yellowish-brown 14 in the river. A few days later, the water was much 15 Within another week, an oily something covered some sections of the water along the banks, and a terrible 16 was soon sensed. Swans left and so did the 17 The only thing that was now visiting the village was disease and sickness.Quickly, the 18 town committee called a special meeting. Realizing their huge error in 19 , they rehired the old keeper of the river again, and within a few weeks, the river began to clear up. Swans and tourists came back again and new life returned to the small town in the Alps.Never ignore the seeming smallness of a task, job or life. They may all make a 20 1、AregularlyBsuddenlyCnaturallyDactually2、AcutBburnedCremovedDselected3、AcarriedBpouredCchangedDblocked4、AbeyondBwithCinDafter5、AofficeBassociationCdepartmentDcommittee6、AeyeBcareChandDmind7、AlistBformCfigureDaccount8、ApromiseBcontinueCstopDtend9、AvisitsBhiresCtellsDsees10、ApowerfulBimportantCnecessaryDsuitable11、AfindBfireCsupportDforgot12、AloseBmissCfallDgrow13、ApullingBspeedingCslowingDpushing14、AfishBcolorCflowerDleaf15、AdeeperBcoolerCwarmerDdarker16、AsoundBsmellCwaveDtaste17、AmanagersBpassengersCvillagersDtourists18、AembarrassedBannoyedCdiscouragedDdiappointed19、AarrangementBassignmentCjudgementDamusement20、AsuggestionBdifferenceCprogressDdecisionSection 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 1We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, its not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay(传闻) and rumor.Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesnt show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.Thats what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.1、According to the passage, active learning may occur in _.Areading scientific journalsBlistening to