考研英语一2023年印江土家族苗族自治县点睛提分卷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) Whats all this tree- - planting for? I was asked when I began writing about 1 a piece of land I had bought in Somerset. The truth is, I just love trees. And I am not 2 AsI get older, all I really 3 is to plant trees , Prince Charles says in a BBC documentary in which he is 4 in the wood he planted on the day Prince George was born.There are 5 and wonderful trees in our cities and villages. They were planted, or self- sown, years, even centuries ago. We take them for granted, 6 the creatures living among them, remain in ignorance of the 7 trees are doing us(cleaning the air, for instance) and cut them down for new 8 . Yet we keep a feeling of 9 for them. This may account for the 10 the government faced in 2010 when it sought to sell off publicly owned woods, and for the wide support that the Woodland Trust (a tree-protecting charity) 11 .Trees need 12 , which is why I, a city-resident, bought my Somerset woodland in 19. At that time, climate change was already well proved, 13 my hopes of planting long-lived oaks and pines gradually developed into anxiety about their 14 . Tree diseases new to the UK, wind, drought and flood were all 15 against them.But I did not 16 things to move so fast. The woodland is still good, the new trees are growing like mad, but the creatures are 17 . The rabbits have disappeared and the owl has moved. The bees and butterflies are 18 there but in smaller numbers. How can this happen on land 19 pesticides (杀虫剂)？Surely, it indicates we need to give nature the chance to restore its own 20 . Meanwhile, I love my wood, and so do many of its visitors. And tree-planting has done wonders for restoring my balance town and country.1、AreplacingBrestoringCrecyclingDreturning2、ArichBweakCaloneDsocial3、Aapply forBwait forCmake forDlong for4、AfilmedBtrackedCreflectedDdiscovered5、AholyByoungCmatureDmysterious6、AraiseBwatchCignoreDabuse7、AhonorBgoodCcreditDjustice8、AuseBspiritClifeDhope9、AtrustBsadnessCbetrayalDaffection10、AapprovalBoppositionCoptionDdilemma11、AwinsBrejectsCrequiresDwithdraws12、AspaceBtimeCcompanyDnutrition13、AsinceBforCyetDso14、AbenefitsBchancesClocationDappearance15、Apiling upBspeeding upCkeeping upDmixing up16、AwishBintendCallowDexpect17、Ain placeBin orderCin declineDin question18、AevenBstillCeverDonce19、Ashort ofBsick ofCfree ofDfull of20、AgloryBfunctionCimpactDbalanceSection 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 As we drove along, my spirits went up again, and I turned, with pleasure, to the thought of the new life which I was entering. But though it was not far past the middle of September, the heavy clouds and strong north-easterly wind combined to make the day extremely cold; and the journey seemed a very long one, so that it was nearly one oclock before we reached the place of our destination. Yet when we entered the gateway, my heart failed me, and I wished it were a mile or two farther off. For the first time in my life I must stand alone: there was no retreating now. I must enter that house, and introduce myself among its strange people. But how was it to be done? True, I was near nineteen; but, thanks to the protecting care of my mother and sister, I well knew that many a girl of fifteen, or under, was gifted with a more womanly address, and greater ease and self-possession, than I was. Yet, anyway. I would do very well, after all; and the children, of course, I should soon be at ease with them.Be calm, be calm, whatever happens, I said within myself; and truly I was so fully occupied in steadying my nerves and keeping down the rebellious beat of my heart that when I was admitted into the hall and into the presence of Mrs. Bloomfield, I almost forgot to answer her polite greeting; and it afterwards struck me that the little I did say was spoken in the tone of one half-dead or half-asleep.With due politeness, however, she showed me my bedroom, and left me there to take a little refreshment for a little while and led me into the dining-room. Some beefsteaks and potatoes were set before me; and while I dined upon these, she sat opposite, watching me (as I thought) and trying to keep something like a conversation consisting chiefly of commonplace remarks. In fact, my attention was almost wholly absorbed in my dinner: not from appetite, but from the toughness of the beefsteaks, and the numbness of my h