2023年贵州省遵义市考研英语一统考试题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) Winters are always long and cold in North China. The winter of 2008 was especially tough in onesouthwestern city, 1 it became extremely cold and itwas also a difficult time for me. What was worse, a(n) 2 injury happened to me and it might keep me in bedfor several months, “Just in time for the Spring Festival, ” my mother said to me, sighing. But how could I feel the 3 when the snow was so heavy and I had months of physical 4 ahead?One day I was doing my housework 5 there wasa tap against the window from a branch of the troublesomefruit tree. On hearing this, with my eyes closed, slowly, I began to recall the fall of 1995 when somebody placed apipe from my pump next to the 6 .The earth was sowet that it 7 immediately with most its bare rootsupward. Seeing this, my mother 8 to pull it out, but I refused“How hard its trying!” I said, 9 the direction of its strong holding of the earth. “It is 10 of a chance to survive.”With tools, we 11 dry soilaround the tree and put up some supports into the ground, making it 12 upright.Several months had passed before Icould be 13 of it. Surprisingly, when spring returned, my “ rescue 14 ”had grown some leaves and many 15 . In 2009 that little rescue stick had grown into a toweringtree. What an unbelievable miracle of life!The day before the Spring Festival, the 16 at thewindow was continuing, the more fierce wind, the 17 sound, as if to remind me to look up and appreciate its powerful life.That night I slept peacefully having a(n) 18 .In the dream some flowers were coming out 19 . The next morning I stood against the window. 20 the window was the tree bursting with life. Anyway, I had awonderful Spring Festival that year.1、AwhereBwhichCwhenDthat2、AadmirableBterribleCfavorableDslight3、AdutyBjoyCcoldDfailure4、AtreatmentBreportCexerciseDexperiment5、AwhileBasCwhenDthat6、AwindowBtreeCbranchDwall7、Astood upBcame outCgot outDfell down8、AdecidedBpretendedCfailedDcontinued9、Aattaching toBwatching overClooking intoDpointing to10、AconfidentBproudCworthyDcertain11、AthrewBturnedCneededDplaced12、AbendBdropCstandDswing13、AawareBtiredCworthwhileDproud14、AtoolBstickCpipeDpump15、ArootsBnutsCflowersDstems16、AtappingBstrikingCattackingDhitting17、AmoreBmostCbetterDbest18、AideaBwalkCrestDdream19、ApolitelyBshylyCpassivelyDwildly20、AOnBOutsideCInsideDBesidesSection 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 1The tornado last 4 minutes, to us, it felt like a lifetime.No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado from the TV than it was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The wind began to roar through the house. We had three flights of steps to get to the first floor. The closet down there is underneath a brick staircase, which seemed like the strongest place in our house to wait things out.It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. As we finally reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Glass flew everywhere. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch whipped through the doorframe. It flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have impaled us.We got close to the staircase only to hear the loud sound of our garage door coming off. The back wall of the house followed and tore off into the darkness outside.By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldnt get inside himself because of the wind. I gripped Jimmys arm and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay. All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldnt believe it was over.The storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.1、Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?AThey decided to hide in the brick staircase because it was the strongest place to hide.BIt was hard to make it to the first floor because there was no floor und