考研英语一张掖市高台县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)There is an interesting story about how Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist, developed the ability to produce an amazing work in just minutes.As the story goes, Picasso was walking through the market one day when a woman 1 him. She stopped the artist, pulled out a piece of paper and said, “Mr. Picasso, I am a fan of your works. Could you do a little 2 for me, please ?”Picasso smiled and 3 drew a small, but beautiful piece of art on the paper. Then, he 4 the paper back to the woman, saying, “That will be one million dollars.”“But Mr. Picasso, it only 5 you 30 seconds to draw this little masterpiece,” said the woman“My good lady, I spend 30 years 6 to draw that masterpiece in thirty seconds.” said Picasso.Picasso isnt the only 7 man who worked for decades to master his craft. His 8 is typical of many creative geniuses. Even people of considerable talent 9 produce amazing work before decades of 10 . A recent study 11 the ages of Nobel Prize winners, great inventors, and scientists. The researchers found that most groundbreaking work 12 during the late thirties at least a full decade into any personal career. Even in the fields of science and maths, creative 13 is often made after more than ten years work.These findings 14 the work done by previous researchers as well. For example, a study 15 at Carnegie Mellon University by professor John Hayes found that out of 500 famous musical pieces, nearly all of them were created after ten years of the composers career. In later studies, Hayes found similar 16 with poets and painters. He began 17 this period hard work and little fame as the“ten years of 18 .”Whether you are a composer or a scientist, creativity is not a 19 you are born with or without. It is something that is discovered, honed（磨练）, and improved 20 real work.1、Arealized Brecognized Cinterviewed Dfollowed2、Achatting Breading Cshopping Ddrawing3、Afinally Bunwillingly Cquickly Dsuddenly4、Ahanded Btransported Carranged Ddelivered5、Atook Bwasted Cspent Drequested6、Apractising Bteaching Clearning Dintending7、Afunny Bcomplex Carguable Dbrilliant8、Ajourney Bpainting Cmodel Dachievement9、Aalways Brarely Cnever Dpossibly10、Await Bsurvey Cpractice Dformation11、Asaw Bkept Cconnected Dtracked12、Acompleted Bpeaked Csucceeded Dcreated13、Aadvance Bcollection Cdevelopment Dprogress14、Amatch Bshow Cinclude Ddelay15、Acarried Bexplored Cconducted Dremoved16、Apatterns Blifestyles Cconditions Dcustoms17、Alooking at Breferring to Ctaking over Ddressing up18、Areview Bsilence Crise Dtrick19、Acase Bcharacter Cquality Drole20、Abefore Bwith Calong DthroughSection 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 1 British people work some of the longest hours in Europe, but are among the least productive. Now some companies are shortening the working week to increase efficiency, health and happiness.Rich Leigh has introduced a four-day week at his PR company. In fact, his entire company has Friday off, because his firm has adopted a four-day week. It is one of a handful of UK businesses that now operate like this: staff still get paid their previous five-day salary, but they work a day less. The company found that they achieved just as muchand there were even sighs of growth. “The key to the schemes success,” Leigh says, “is how happy our employees now are.”The average British worker takes only a 34 minute lunch break and works 10 hours overtime each week (more often than not this is unpaid). Yet UK productivity falls seriously behind their European neighbors, who tend to work fewer hours.British working practices have caused loss and damage to the nations health and happiness. More than half a million workers in the UK were signed off with work-related stress or anxiety last year. Moreover, the work landscape itself is changing. Automation and AI will have a significant impact on the labor market, where unsteady work becomes more common.Britain is the only EU member that allows workers to ignore the EU working time limit and work longer hours. For campaigners, now is the time for a change. OGrady, an advocate, argues that where businesses have increased their profits as a result of automation, success should be shared with workers in the form