江苏省淮安市楚州区2023年考研英语一巅峰冲刺试卷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)South Korean artist Young-Sung Kim has a very special talent, he can paint photographs. That may sound like kind of exaggeration (夸张).Most of Kims paintings describe small 1 interacting with man-made objects. The artist admits that he has been greatly 2 by insects and reptiles (爬行动物) since he was a young boy, keeping them in his room and 3 them. From that days on, he 4 to become a painter.“It wasnt 5 to paint their structure and color well. It was much harder than I had expected. I promised myself I would train myself at art school 6 I could paint them perfectly,” the 7 told Yonhap News Agency. 8 , his parents didnt approve of his decision to focus his studies on art, 9 that he would not be able to land a good job. In high-school, their 10 only made Kim rebel (叛逆) even more. After two years of this, his family finally 11 and allowed him to follow his dream.In the end, Kim 12 his parents that they made the 13 decision. Not only does he get to earn a living doing what he 14 most, but he became one of the worlds most highly-regarded 15 painters, earning between $10,000 and $130,000 per artwork.Youn-Sung Kim paints for more than 12 hours a day, 16 on weekends. Despite the 17 realism of his paintings, Young-Sung Kim never completely 18 with his work. He 19 his artworks on a 100-pomt scale, and none of his dozens of paintings have ever scored above 90 points. Kim hopes to 20 himself and get as close to that 100-point mark as possible.1、Akids Bplants Canimals Dtoys2、Aattracted Bconfused Cfrightened Dattacked3、Afeeding Bcounting Ctraining Dpainting4、Amanaged Bdecided Cagreed Ddemanded5、Aeasy Buseless Cnecessary Dimpractical6、Aeven if Bso that Cunless Dwhile7、Aphotographer Barchitect Cartist Dbiologist8、ASurprisingly BBasically CNaturally DUnluckily9、Afearing Bassessing Csuggesting Dpredicting10、Arequirement Bopposition Ccomment Dannouncement11、Aturned away Bsettled down Cgave in Dtook over12、Aguaranteed Breminded Cinformed Dconvinced13、Asimilar Bright Cquick Dnormal14、Aneeds Bconsumes Ctrusts Dloves15、Arealistic Binternational Cabstract Dsimple16、Ajust Bseldom Ceven Dyet17、Asplendid Bdigital Cmagical Dpositive18、Apopular Bcontent Cbusy Dfamiliar19、Acharges Badvertises Cscores Dimproves20、Aface Bexpress Caccustom DbetterSection 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 1I Was the Doughnut LadyIn university I had a part-time job at a shop that sold doughnuts and coffee. Situated on a block where several buses stopped, it served the people who had a few minutes to wait for their bus. Every afternoon around four oclock, a group of schoolchildren would burst into the shop, and business would come to a stop. Adults would glance in, see the crowd and pass on. But I didnt mind if the children waited for their bus inside. Sometimes I would hand out a bus fare when a ticket went missingalways repaid the next day. On snowy days I would give away some doughnuts. I would lock the door at closing time, and we waited in the warm shop until their bus finally arrived. I enjoyed my young friends, but it never occurred to me that I played an important role in their livesuntil one afternoon when a man came and asked if I was the girl working on weekdays around four oclock. He identified himself as the father of two of my favorites. “I want you to know I appreciate what you do for my children. I worry about them taking two buses to get home. It means a lot that they can wait here and you keep an eye on them. When they are with the doughnut lady, I know they are safe.” I told him it wasnt a big deal, and that I enjoyed the kids.So I was the Doughnut Lady. I not only received a title, but became a landmark. Now I think about all the people who keep an eye on my own children. They become, well, Doughnut Ladies. Like the men at the skating rink (滑冰场), who let my boys ring home; Or the bus driver who drove my daughter to her stop at the end of the route at night but wouldnt leave until I arrived to pick her up; Or that nice police officer who took pity on my boys walking home in the rain when I was at workeven though the phone rang all the next day with calls from curious neighbors. “Was that a police car I saw at your house last night?” That