考研英语一2023年鞍山市岫岩满族自治县巅峰冲刺试卷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)It was Easter 1990, and my family was on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Solomon Islands for my sisters wedding.I was traveling with my husband, my four-year-old son and my daughter, who was nearly two. Wed been 1 that it was very hot in the Solomon, so we 2 lots of light cotton clothes and were wearing the same as it was summer. The only problem was that we had to catch an overnight bus that 3 at midnight for the airport so we could make our early morning 4 to Honiara. It was cold on the bus! My husband and I were snuggling（依偎）our children as close as we could, trying to keep them 5 . The bus stopped many times as passengers got on and off, and we didnt take much 6 . The little ones were 7 , unable to sleep for the biting cold. Then at one stop, an older lady came forward from the back of the bus and paused by our seat. I sat forward to see what she wanted and she 8 a small blanket, My little girl reached 9 for it and pulled it tight around her. The lady said shed made the blanket herself and, seeing that we were cold. she wanted us to use it. After she went back to her seat, our now-warm children 10 off, and they slept comfortably all the way to the airport. Just a stop or two 11 we arrived, the lady made her way to the door to get off. I tried to 12 the children to return her blanket, but she protested. No, she said, 13 it. I can always make another one! Over the years, that little blanket became a 14 to me and to my children of the kindness of strangers. I told the story to the children over and over and hung the blanket on the end of my daughters bed so we would see it 15 . That blanket was handmade with the colors carefully chosen. Yet its maker 16 with it to keep my family warm for a night. If ever people were bad or 17 , it served as a reminder that there is goodness in the world.I am forever 18 , not just for the warmth that night, but for the lifelong reminder of the 19 of people. That blanket has warmed my 20 .1、Aconfirmed Btold Cadvised Dpersuaded2、Aoffered Bpiled Cpacked Ddiscovered3、Aleft Bwent Cpulled Ddrove4、Atrain Bvisit Cride Dflight5、Acomfortable Bwarm Ccalm Dquiet6、Anotice Bcare Caction Dinterest7、Anaughty Bhungry Crestless Denergetic8、Ashowed out Bmade out Cput out Dheld out9、Aeagerly Bsilently Cpatiently Dbravely10、Aslept Bcame Cshook Dnodded11、Aas Buntil Cbefore Dafter12、Aunload Bunwrap Cunfold Duncover13、Akeep Bpossess Creturn Dbring14、Asign Bmark Csymbol Ddecoration15、Aclosely Bregularly Ccarefully Deely16、Aremained Bhanded Cdeserted Dparted17、Acruel Bsensitive Ccautious Dugly18、Adelighted Bpitiful Cgrateful Dexcited19、Aappreciation Bnature Cwelcome Dgoodness20、Abody Blife Cpast DfutureSection 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 The United States job market has millions of unfilled jobs. Many of those jobs require technical skills. However, employers say many of those jobs are vacant because they cannot find people with the right skills. Labor experts call this paradox the skills gap. A number of efforts have been launched to better understand and solve it.Nicholas Wyman wrote a book called, “Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need.” He calls the skills gap, “a labor market mismatch people without jobs and jobs without people.”In the United States, the cost of a traditional four-year college can be very high. U.S. colleges and universities produce many graduates every year. Yet unemployment rates among new graduates are high.Nicholas Wyman says a combination of technical classes and on-the-job training an apprenticeship (学徒) would be a better choice for many people. He notes that, “An apprenticeship is where you learn from a specialist, you are provided guidance and you learn in an on-the-job environment. It is vital to get technical skills that are of immediate value to an employer. And it is important to get transferrable skills because technology and the nature of the workplace are changing at a faster rate than before.”There are questions about the definition, size, and nature of the skills gap in the labor force. Iowa State University researchers studied some of these questions recently. They examined employment, education and population inform