江苏省苏州市张家港市2023年考研英语一临考冲刺试卷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)Lita CabEllut is one of Spains most successful artists, “My 1 was like that of thousands of street kids around the world.” says Lita. She used to 2 the streets of Barcelona with other homeless children and 3 in the open air.Lita was 4 in a village in Aragon, north-east Spain, in 1961.While she was a baby, her mother 5 Barcelona. She was left with her grandmotherbut 6 she spent most of her time out on the 7 . 8 , she says that “art was there because art is 9 around us”, but she didnt think about it in a 10 senseshe was focused on 11 .Litas grandmother 12 when she was about 10 years old and she 13 a Barcelona orphanage（孤儿院）before being 14 by “a beautiful Catalan family” two years later.She didnt 15 much about them, except that they 16 her to art. They took her to Madrids Prado museum, and showed Goyas works to her. Her adopted family 17 Lita to keep paintingthey 18 paid for private teachers to make up for 19 time. She slowly made progress at school, started to listen to the “voice of art” and 20 to study hard.1、Ahobby Bskill Cdream Dchildhood2、Amove Bwander Cleave Dcross3、Adrank Bsang Cslept Ddanced4、Aborn Bcured Cinvited Dadmired5、Amoved to Bstayed in Cpassed by Dbacked off6、Ain favor Bin danger Cin person Din reality7、Abeds Bstreets Ctables Dgrasses8、AKnowing BTraining CRemembering DForgetting9、Abadly Bfinally Cnever Dalways10、Asad Bbad Cformal Dhumorous11、Aarrival Bsurvival Ceagerness Dpatience12、Adied Bbit Cran Dplayed13、Akept pace with Bended up in Ctook charge of Dgot hold of14、Aadopted Bmatched Cshown Drecognized15、Afinish Badmit Cmind Dtell16、Aattached Bcontributed Cintroduced Dadded17、Adiscouraged Btaught Cencouraged Dshocked18、Ayet Bjust Cstill Deven19、Aclosing Blost Cavailable Dspare20、Adecided Bpretended Cpreferred DabandonedSection 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 I have had a lifelong fascinationcall it obsession if you likewith communication， with making links to other places， other cultures， other worlds The roots of this obsession have often puzzled me I am notnever have beena gregarious person Quite the opposite， I was a solitary child and my classmates at school and university always thought of me as a loner I was never crazy about the noisy solidarity of social gatherings So why was I possessed of a desire to make contact with distant places？It can partly be explained by the start I had in life I grew up on what seemed at the time like the edge of the worldin a remote part of rural Ireland， in a household with few books or magazines， and no television Foreign travel was unheard of Apart from those who emigrated to Great Britain or the United States， virtually nobody we knew had ever been abroad Nobody ever went overseas on holiday， and no foreign languages were taught in the schools I attendedwith the exception of Latin We lived in a closed society that thought of itself as selfsufficientThere was however one chink of light in the suffocating gloomthe radio， which we called the wireless It was， by modern standards， a huge apparatus powered by valveswhich is why it took some time to warm upand a magic eye tuning indicatora greenish glass circle that winked at you as the signal waxed or waned The best thing about our wireless， though， was that it had a shortwave band This was the source of endless fascination to me， because it meant that even with this primitive device one could listen to the world At first I couldnt understand how it worked Why was reception so much better at night？ Why was it so infuriatingly variable？ I asked my father， who looked evasive and just said it had something to do with the whachamacallit sphere （he always called complicated things the whachamacallit）， but this gave me enough of a steer to go to the local library and start digging In due course I discovered that he was referring to the ionospherea layer of charged particles high up at the edge of the Earths atmosphere that acts as a kind of reflector for radio waves of certain frequencies The reason shortwave radio could travel such huge distances was that it used the ionosphere to bounce signals round the worldwhich was why radio hams in Latin America or Australia could sometimes be hea