考研英语一2023年河北省张家口市宣化县全真模拟试题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)Sometimes you meet an ordinary person doing something extraordinary. On a recent trip I met Normand Gallant. Normand is someone you could pass on the street and 1 notice but he is a very special person who 2 recognition.Norm lives in a remote area far from the 3 big hospital, so when his wife 4 cancer several years ago, Norm was faced with a four hour 5 to where she should be treated. That meant lots of 6 for meals, fuel, hotels and so on. But in the end the cancer took his wife 7 .Norm was obviously 8 by his wifes passing, but he was also very angry, 9 he realized that other people were 10 the same sorts of hardships. He wanted to do something but he didnt want to give money to the 11 that support cancer research because he didnt know how much would actually get to the researchers. What he did was to 12 parties.About every three weeks on Saturday evenings, there is a party in Norms garage. There is music and dancing and 13 during the evening Norm tells about a family who are having difficulties 14 the cost supporting a cancer patient undertaking 15 far from home. Then a honey-pa1 is passed around and the money 16 , every cent of it goes 17 to that family.Norms personal loss has 18 an act of kindness that honors the 19 of the wife he has lost. Wouldnt it be 20 if we had more people in the world like Normand Gallant? He makes the world a better place.1、Aoften Bever Calways Dnever2、Adeserves. Bdislikes Cavoids Dachieves3、Abest Bnearest Ccleanest Dcheapest4、Adiscovered Bcured Cexamined Ddeveloped5、Aflight Bwalk Cdrive Dwait6、Atrouble Bexpense Cefforts Dpreparations7、Aanyway Bsomehow Cmeanwhile Dinstead8、Aimpressed Bstricken Cmoved Dterrified9、Aif Balthough Cbefore Dbecause10、Aunderstanding Bquestioning Cfacing Dsettling11、Adoctors Bfamilies Corganizations Dhospitals12、Aattend Bpromote Cthrow Denjoy13、Aat some point Bby this means Cfor some reason Din this case14、Acalculating Bdecreasing Cbudgeting Dmeeting15、Aresearch Btreatment Cresponsibility Drisk16、Acollected Bdistributed Csaved Ddeposited17、Agradually Bsmoothly Cdirectly Dexplicitly18、Aserved as Bresulted from Cgone through Dcontributed to19、Amemory Brecovery Ccancer Dkindness20、Ainteresting Bnice Cprecious DmeaningfulSection 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 When Huang Lizhi took her first class in African sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in February, her professor asked her and her classmates what impresses them most when it comes to Africa.Unexpectedly, Huang, 31, found that words like “poverty” and “safari” negative words that were often associated with the continent in media reports were the kind of terms her African classmates didnt want to hear. Instead, they preferred to hear the question answered in this way: “Africa is the cradle of humankind” and “Africans are passionate and generous”.Apparently, there are some misunderstandings between us. Its true that with incidents like the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa and the emergence (出现) of pirates off the coast of Somalia hitting the news, its easy for us to keep forgetting that Africa has one of the worlds oldest civilizations Egypt, born by the worlds longest river, the Nile. The proof is in the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza, which are both popular among tourists. And the tombs of ancient Egypt have also become endless sources for the literature and film industries.When it comes to the natural environment of Africa, our misunderstandings are only bigger. But the truth is that instead of being extremely hot all year and covered by desert, the continent has large areas of savannas (稀树草原) where lions, giraffes and zebras live, the snowcapped Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa and even thick forest on the island of Madagascar.These misunderstandings are one of the reasons why the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was held on Sept 3 and 4 to understand each other better.Indeed, only by visiting Africa herself did Huang see the convenient living conditions, the amazing natural beauty and the friendly people.In her eyes, her classmates were as hopeful about the future of their own countries as they