牡丹江市林口县2023年考研英语一预测试卷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)Last month, I visited one of my old neighborhoods in New York. I had not been there for twenty years and as I walked along the street, my mind was 1 by memories of the past. I saw the old 2 building where I had lived and the playground where I had played. As I viewed these once 3 surroundings, images of myself as a child there 4 . However, what I saw and what I remembered were not the same. I 5 realized that the best memories were those kept 6 .My old apartment building, as I remember, was bright and alive. It was more than just a place to live. It was a movie house, a space station, or whatever my young mind could 7 . I would steal away with my friends and play in the 8 . This was always exciting because it was so cool and dark, and there were so many things there to 9 among. There was a small river in the back of the building, We would go there to lie in the shade of trees and enjoy ourselves.However, what I saw was 10 different. The apartment building was now in bad 11 . What was once more than a place to live in looked hardly worth 12 in. The windows were all 13 . The once clean walls were covered with dirty 14 . The river was hardly recognizable. The water was polluted and the trees and flowers were all 15 . The once sweet-smelling river now smelled 16 . It was really heartbreaking to 17 all this.I do not 18 having seen my old neighborhood. However, I do not think my 19 childhood memories can ever be the same. I suppose it is 20 when they say, “You can never go home again.”1、Aprevented Bpushed Cflooded Dproduced2、Astore Boffice Cexperiment Dapartment3、Astrange Bfamiliar Csimilar Dcomplex4、Aburst into tears Bcame to mind Ccame into effect Dcame to light5、Asadly Bcuriously Cluckily Dgenerally6、Aunharmed Buntouched Cuncompleted Dunmoved7、Aimagine Bwrite Csave Dintroduce8、Aclassroom Bpark Cbasement Dlibrary9、Ahide Bclimb Csit Dlive10、Ahardly Bmostly Cregularly Dcompletely11、Aeffect Btemper Cbehavior Dcondition12、Aplaying Bliving Cstudying Dtravelling13、Aold Bmessy Cbroken Dugly14、Amarks Bnames Cnotes Dpictures15、Agreen Bfresh Cdead Drare16、Afunny Btasty Cunusual Dterrible17、Asee Bsay Cremember Dcollect18、Aconsider Benjoy Cpermit Dregret19、Adark Bremote Cbeautiful Dshort20、Afake Btrue Cattractive DinterestingSection 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 following are the largest Latino companies in terms of revenue across the country, according to HispanicB.Brightstar Corp. (revenue: US $6.3 billion)A leading global company, Bightstar has a business presence in nearly 50 countries in five continents. A native Bolivan, Marcelo Claure, President, Chairman and CEO of Brightstar, started the company in 1997 as a small Miami-based regional device distributor targeting Latin America.MasTec Inc. (estimated revenue rose to US $4.25 billion)After working for church & Tower, an underground utility construction firm for just two short years, Cuban immigrant, Jorge MasCanosa, bought the company he worked for in 1971, and took it to the next level in South Floridas flourishing economic conditions.During the national telecom industry deregulation(放宽管制)era and under this new leadership, Church &Tower emerged as a leader in their industry. In 1994, they merged with Burnup & Sims, a construction company that specialized in telephone networks in the US, the Caribbean, Middle East and Pacific Islands, becoming MasTec Corporation.In the next decades, they accomplished enough growth to build complex infrastructure projects in renewable energy, electric power, gas and oil, water and sewers, communications and installation-fulfillment services.Molina healthcare (revenue: US $3.0 billion)Since Dr. CDavid Molina, MD, opened his first clinic in Long Beach, California, in 1980, he set up the vision of his company to provide quality healthcare for low-income families and those under coverage provided by the government who were using emergency room services instead of general healthcare services.Now, Molina Healthcare, a public company, delivers health services and health information management solutions to almost five million families in 15 states.Greenway Ford(revenue: US $1.2 billion)Frank Rodriguez is the founder of Greenway Ford,