考研英语一苏州市张家港市2023年全真模拟试题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)Happy MaggieDuring my childhood I experienced greater hardships than most people go through in a lifetime. In my short 17 years of life, I have been 1 five divorces of my parents. Having a new stepmother or stepfather every few years was 2 , but the constant moving was worse. My fathers cancer diagnosis 3 me apart, and his two heart attacks and 4 with diabetes put a huge pressure on the family. By age 13, I was 5 and emotionally scarred. I felt like I had no one to 6 and that nothing would ever get better. Then I met Maggie, and my attitude towards life changed.For many summers, I 7 at a horse-riding camp for people with special needs. We taught children and adults specialized skills 8 their abilities. For example, we would teach a child with autism(自闭症) 9 skills, or a child with cerebral palsy(脑瘫) strength-building exercise. Each volunteer was 10 a specific child during eight weeks. A few weeks later, I was asked to 11 another volunteer who was sick. That was the day my 12 on life changed forever.As I began to work with her, I looked through her file to get more information, which was 13 . She had been physically abused as a newborn and throughout her infancy. Her birth parents 14 her so badly that they caused her a serious brain injury by the age of two. Her skull had been broken, however, the amazing thing about Maggie was her 15 attitude.When I met Maggie, she was 12, and she would say 16 but“Im happy!”. If you asked her “How old are you?”, “Im happy” she replied each time. Everyone at the camp 17 her “Happy Maggie”.My life growing up was a huge struggle, 18 Maggie taught me not to get in the way of happiness. Nothing bad in life should be enough to change 19 I am. She gave me 20 . If I learned anything from Maggie, it would be, no matter what, be happy.1、AbeyondBwithCthroughDin2、AroughBexcitingCcharmingDindependent3、AbrokeBtoreCdefeatedDturned4、ArecoveryBsufferingCconcernDbattle5、AdepressedBconfusedCconfidentDpleased6、Alook afterBturn toCappeal toDtake after7、AvolunteeredBhandledCadmittedDrecommended8、Acompared withBbased onCjudging fromDowing to9、AanalyzingBcreatingCcommunicatingDcalculating10、AacquiredBseparatedCpromotedDassigned11、AinterviewBemployCreplaceDdismiss12、AdecisionBevaluationCprincipleDoutlook13、Aheart-breakingBspirit-liftingCdisappointingDsurprising14、AtendedBtreatedCopposedDprotected15、AunreasonableBunacceptableCunforgettableDunsinkable16、AeverythingBanythingCnothingDsomething17、AgaveBcomplainedCtranslatedDnicknamed18、AandByetCsoDotherwise19、AwhyBwhereCwhoDthat20、AhopeBambitionCstrengthDlessonSection 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 1If only things were that simple. Supporters of the so-called Stone Age diet argue that farming practices introduced about 10,000 years ago are harmful to human health, and that we shouldnt eat grains or food made from milk such as butter and cheese. Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat (瘦肉) and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.The idea, also called the caveman, or hunter-gatherer diet, has been around for decades and was discussed at a meeting of the British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine.According to Lauren Cordain, a nutritionist at Colorado State University who presented the idea to the meeting, those following the meat-centered menu “lose weight and get healthy by eating the food you were designed to eat”. He says there is increasing evidence that a caveman diet can prevent and treat many common western diseases. Studies of islanders in Papua New Guinea who still live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle show they rarely suffer from heart disease.But other nutritionists argue that cutting out whole food groups such as grains is just not a good idea.“I would recommend anybody to eat lean meat and raw vegetables,” says Toni Steer of the MRC human nutrition research unit at Cambridge. But what youre asking people to do is cut out a food group which is good for your health.Archaeologists say its not even clear exactly how much of the various foods people actually ate during the Stone Age.“There was no one Stone Age diet; diets of the past varied greatly,” says John Gowlett, an archaeologist at the University of Liverpool who also attended the conference. Prehistoric people in Africa probably ate less meat than many people think, he says, w