2023年江西省抚州市资溪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) I boarded the airplane heading to Barcelona，frightened because in a matter of hours Id be landing in a country populated by people who all spoke a language which was completely unknown to me.Not only that.Id be 1 the next two weeks there.All the butterflies I had in my 2 immediately flew away because as I arrived at the warm，colorful campus 3 Id be living for the next fourteen days.I felt like Id found myself a second 4 .Counselors and other staff members welcomed us at the gate，introducing themselves.and just being all round 5 .I made my 6 to my assigned room only to find a crying girl and two other girls 7 her down.Little 8 I know how many memories Id make 9 these three girls，how close wed become over the next 10 of weeks and how many times the camp director would have to come to our room at 3:00 a.m.and 11 not to send us shopping if we didnt go to bed 12 .In the mornings we took Spanish classes and a guy 13 he learnt more Spanish over these two weeks than he did for the past year at 14 .During the day，I formed life-long relationships with people from all 15 of the globe，and mostly visited the breathtaking Barcelonan beaches.Speaking of breakfast，the meals were restaurantworthy，the 16 were endless and people with special food needs were well 17 .The staff always found some way or another to 18 us，whether it was having a surprise water party at ten p.m.or having an unannounced watermeloneating contest，they always had 19 up their sleeves.By the end of camp，everyone was so sad that they had to leave，there were enough 20 to fill up an Olympicsized pool.1、Aconsuming Bspending Cwasting Drequiring2、Astomach Bbrain Cheart Dchest3、Awhich Bwhen Cthat Dwhere4、Achance B1ife Chome D1anguage5、Anervous Bfriendly Cawkward Dsilent6、Away Bhead Cstep Dwalk7、A1aying Bstriking Ccalming Dattending8、Awould Bdo Cwill Ddid9、Aup Bof Cout Dwith10、Adozen Bcouple Cscore Ddecade11、Athreaten Burge Cpromise Dconvince12、Afrequently Bthoroughly Cimmediately Dcomfortably13、Aadmitted Bshouted Cremembered Dargued14、Awork Brest Cpeace Dschool15、Asides Bangles Csquares Dcorners16、Astaff Bchoices Cservices Dtables17、Acatered to Badopted to Cdealt with Dthought of18、Aencourage Bmotivate Csurprise Dawake19、Anothing Bsomething Canything Deverything20、Avoices Bcheers Ctears DstoriesSection 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 1I am astonished at the way God knows when to send a special gift of encouragement at just the right time! It might be in a dream, a lost letter, a memory, or something found that wed forgotten about.My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. And summer after summer I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town where they lived. People knew everyone, their children, their pets, their ancestors.Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting She would make sandwiches and wed have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them. She loved knitting sweaters as well as making beautiful quiltsfor her grandchildren. I remember the small thimble ( 顶 针 ) she would place on her finger while doing her needlework.A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. Shed never forgotten my birthday!On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened and made me feel as if she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow；it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam (缝) that I carefully opened, and, to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing h into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff (抖松), to place on my bedspread (床罩) that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others Id collected over the years. What a