2023年江苏省淮安市清浦区考研英语一考前冲刺试卷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 had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack. About a week after his death, she _ some of her insight with a classroom of students. As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in _ the classroom windows and the class was nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the _ of her desk and sat down there.With a gentle look on her face, she paused and said,Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you a thought _ I feel is very important. Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves.and _ of us knows when this fantastic experience will end. It can be taken away at any moment. Perhaps this is a(an) _that we must make the most out of every single day. Her eyes beginning to_, she went on,So I would like you all to make me a _.from now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesnt have to be something you see-it_ be a scent(香味)-perhaps of_ baked bread wafting out of someones house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the _ the morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground. Please, look for these things, and remember them.For, _ it may sound silly to some people, these things are the stuff of life. The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often take for _. We must make _important to notice them, for at any time.it can all be taken away.The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our books and filed out of the room _ .That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester. Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what a deep _ she made on all us, and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all _.Take notice of something _you see on your lunch hour today. Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double dip ice cream cone. _ as we get older, it is not the things we did that we often _, but the things we didnt do.1、AenjoyedBsharedCchangedDconnected2、AthroughBonCacrossDalong3、AbackBfrontCfeetDedge4、AwhatBwhichCwhenDwhere5、Ano oneBeveryCnoneDany6、AsignBsignalCsymbolDscene7、AcryBsweatCrunDwater8、ApresentBpromiseCdiscoveryDcontribution9、AshouldBmustCcouldDneed10、AeventuallyBfreshlyCgraduallyDslightly11、AwayBmethodCaccessDprocess12、AbecauseBsinceCunlessDalthough13、AresponsibilityBgrantedCfunDpleasure14、AoneBthatCthem.Dit15、AhappilyBsilentlyCsadlyDtiredly16、AexpressionBdepressionCimpressionDprogress17、AnoticeBforgetCoverlookDremember18、AspecialBniceCbeautifulDtypical19、AWhileBThoughCForDIf20、AlikeBregretCneglectDrememberSection 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 Everybody, at some point in their lives, has experienced failure. It could be something as simple as not getting the job you wanted, or getting fewer marks even after hard work. But what makes you is not your failure, but how you get back up after being hit.Once, a young school boy was caught in a fire accident in his school and was assumed that he would not live. His mother was told that he was sure to die, for the terrible fire had destroyed the lower half of his body. Even if he were to survive, he would be lame throughout his life.But the brave boy did not want to die nor did he want to be lame. Much to the amazement of the doctor, he did survive. But unfortunately from his waist down, he had no motor ability. His thin legs just hung there, lifeless. Eventually he left the hospital. But his determination to walk was unshakable. At home, when he was not in bed, he had to stay in a wheelchair. One day, he threw himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him. He reached the fence, raised himself up and then began dragging himself along the fence, firmly determined. He did this every day, with faith in himself that he would be able to walk unaided. With his iron determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk on and off, then to walk by himself and then to run.He began to walk to school, and then run to school, to run for the joy of running. Later in college he was on the track team.In Febr