四川省攀枝花市盐边县2023年考研英语一押题密卷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)Few other nations are so much interested in horse racing as the English. The famous races Ascot are held every year and followed by sports fans all over England. The king or the queen also attends 1 and presents the winner with a gold cup. To 2 this gold cup is the dream of every owner of a race horse. All newspapers, great and small, are full of detailed description of the 3 , and the name of the 4 winner of the Ascot cup is pronounced by everyone 5 of a great hero.It happened once, however, some seventy years ago, that the gold cup was stolen a few days before the race! The police 6 for it all over the country but could not find it.Just at the time, Mark Twain, the witty American writer, 7 England. He was 8 by an England Literary Society to be 9 at a dinner given in his honor. After dinner the president of the society rose to propose a toast to Mark Twains health and 10 in every way the talent of the 11 American. Mark Twain 12 started his speech with the following words:“Gentlemen, I thank you for the great honor you have done me, 13 I very much doubt whether all your countrymen join you in your 14 welcome. When I arrived at Dover yesterday, and 15 my foot in “Merry Old England, the first thing I saw was a newspaper poster and on it, 16 my great surprise, I read two 17 printed in big red letters:MARK TWAIN ARRIVES!ASCOT CUP STOLEN!“These two announcements stood so closely together that it 18 seemed, gentlemen, as if some people in this country may be sure that my 19 had something to do with the disappearance of the gold cup!” This witty speech of the famous American author was met with a shout of 20 .1、Ait Bthem Cthat Dthis2、Ahold Bkeep Ccatch Dwin3、Arace Bwinner Cproblem Dnations4、Agood Blucky Cgreat Dbrave5、Aas this Blike that Clike those Das it6、Asearched Basked Cwaited Dcared7、Areached in Bwent into Carrived in Dgot in8、Aseen Bvisited Cinvited Dforced9、Apresent Blate Cabsent Dfree10、Asuggest Bpraise Ccheck Dunderstand11、Atiring Bselfish Cfamous Dshy12、Ain reply Bin cash Cin short Din time13、Aas soon as Bas though Ceven if Din case14、Aindifferent Bwarm Cviolent Dcold15、Aset Bgot Cwent Dstarted16、Afor Bto Cwith Dby17、Aarticles Bpassages Cparagraphs Dheadings18、Asuddenly Bhardly Creally Dmainly19、Aarrival Bprinciple Cexpression Dattitude20、Ainterest Bbreath Canger DlaughterSection 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 1For all the technological wonders of modem medicine, health care-with its fax machines and clipboards(写字板)is out of date. This outdated era is slowly drawing to a close as the industry catches up with the artificial-intelligence ( AI) revolution.Eric Topol, an expert in heart disease and enthusiast for digital medicine, thinks AI will be particularly useful for such tasks as examining images, observing heart traces for abnormalities or turning doctors words into patient records. It will be able to use masses of data to work out the best treatments, and improve workflows in hospitals. In short, AI is set to save time, lives and money.The fear some people have is that AI will be used to deepen the assembly-line culture of modem medicine. If it gives a “ gift of time” to doctors, they argue that this bonus should be used to extend consultations, rather than simply speeding through them more efficiently.That is a fine idea, but as health swallows an ever-bigger share of national wealth, greater efficiency is exactly what is needed, at least so far as governments and insurers are concerned. Otherwise, rich societies may fail to cope with the needs of ageing and growing populations. An extra five minutes spent chatting with a patient is costly as well as valuable. The AI revolution will also enable managerial accountants to adjust and evaluate every aspect of treatment. The autonomy of the doctor will surely be weakened, especially, perhaps, in public-health systems which are duty-bound to cut unnecessary costs.The Hippocratic Oath(誓言) holds that there is an art to medicine as well as a science, and that “warmth, sympathy and understanding may outweigh the surgeons knife or the chemists drug”. Theres lots of sense in it: the patients of sympathetic physicians have been shown to recover better. Yet as the supply of human carers fails to sat