2023年重庆市长寿区考研英语一考前冲刺试题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)I was getting ready for bed when the telephone rang unexpectedly. My mind quickly ran 1 the list of family members, but the voice on the other end of the line was only 2 familiar. “Lindy, this is Leslie,” she said. I didnt know Leslie very well, so I was a little 3 that she would be calling me at 11:00 pm. I was afraid that it would be something really 4 to cause her to reach out to someone she 5 knew. However, she asked me a most 6 question. “Do you have any room for a turkey in your freezer?” she asked. “Sure,” I responded, feeling quite confused. My family was at the bottom of our food supply. “I will 7 when I get to your house,” Leslie replied.We quickly 8 blue jeans from our nightclothes and prepared to meet her outside 9 the doorbell wouldnt wake up our four children. Leslie and her husband came in a huge freezer truck. She explained that her husband serviced a small grocery store that had just lost its lease（ 租 约 ）. They had to 10 all the freezers before midnight. She thought it was a 11 to just throw all this food away so she began to go through her list of 12 , dropping off food to anyone who she thought might be 13 to take it. Ours was the last place they planned to stop and anything left would have to be 14 Still not fully 15 what had just occurred, I asked her, “When will you be coming back for all this?” Leslie replied, “It is yours! We have been 16 food since 5:00 pm and have 17 our list of contacts. Thanks a lot for helping us out.”Leslie had no idea that we 18 to buy groceries. By the time the freezer food finally 19 , buying groceries was no longer a problem. I admit that Im still afraid of late night calls, assuming the worst, 20 then I remember that summer night when an acquaintance called me to send me turkeys.1、Ainto Bacross Cthrough Dafter2、Avaguely Bdefinitely Creasonably Dhopefully3、Athrilled Bembarrassed Csurprised Dannoyed4、Acreative Bimpressive Ccomplex Dawful5、Anormally Bbarely Cprecisely Dfrequently6、Astrange Bauthentic Cfascinating Dtough7、Apause Bexplain Cappreciate Dnegotiate8、Ahunted for Bput aside Cchanged into Dtook out9、Ain that Bas if Cin case Dso that10、Aempty Breplace Cfix Dremove11、Asuccess Bshame Cchance Dduty12、Amerchants Brescuers Ccontacts Dclients13、Aconsiderate Bgenerous Cwilling Dconscious14、Adeleted Bleaked Cswapped Ddumped15、Adescribing Bunderstanding Cpredicting Dobserving16、Asubmitting Bfetching Cconsuming Ddelivering17、Apacked Bexhausted Crefreshed Dconcluded18、Astruggled Bmanaged Cdecided Dtended19、Aran out Bwent off Cbroke down Dcaught on20、Afor Bor Cand DbutSection 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 1Time TravelIf you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would watch an original performance of a Shakespeares play in Elizabethan England? What about hanging out with Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period? Or maybe youd voyage far ahead of the present day to see what the future holds.The possibility of time travel is indeed appealing. Stories exploring the subject have been around for hundreds of years. Perhaps the best known example is science fiction novel. The Time Machine, which was written by H.G. Wells and published in 1895 for the first time. It was adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to a vehicle transporting people into the far future.But could time travel actually be possible? Some scientists say yes, in theory. They propose using cracks in time and space called “wormholes”, which could be used as shortcuts to other periods. Einsteins theory of relativity allows time travel in extreme circumstances. And British physicist Stephen Hawking says you could travel into the future with a really fast spaceship going at nearly the speed of light. Though building such a spaceship would of course be no simple task.Even if you could travel into the past, there is something called the “grandfath