考研英语一上饶市德兴市2023年预测试卷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)I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still 1 the brightness of sunshine. It would be 2 to see again, but a 3 can do strange things to people. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the 4 of them made me 5 more what I had.Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustmentsto reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more 6 his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never 7 I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in methe 8 to livewhich I didnt see, and they made me want to 9 against blindness.The hardest 10 I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 11 that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real, 12 person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.It took me years to discover and 13 this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I cant use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he 14 me, “and roll it around.” The words 15 in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought 16 : playing baseball. At Philadelphias Overbrook School for the Blind I 17 a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball.All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my 18 It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach 19 that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would 20 sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.1、ArememberBaffectCmeasureDbring2、ApossibleBwonderfulChopefulDreasonable3、AquestionBmistakeCdisasterDsituation4、AimportanceBvalueClossDattention5、ArecordBexpectCofferDappreciate6、AnaturalBmodernCmeaningfulDchallenging7、AnecessaryBeasyCdifficultDpractical8、ArightBplanCplaceDpotential9、AguardBhitCargueDfight10、AgameBskillClessonDknowledge11、Aself-controlBself-confidenceCself-defenseDself-improvement12、AmodestBenergeticCgenerousDpositive13、AstrengthenBexpressCshareDdestroy14、AurgedBblamedCrespectedDadmired15、AheldBstuckCbotheredDknocked16、AimportantBspecificCcommonDimpossible17、AinventedBconfirmedCcheckedDnoticed18、AinterestBlimitationCexperienceDresponsibility19、AonceBunlessCbecauseDthough20、AfailBtryCactDcontinueSection 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 am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he will learn to love himself and will be successful in his own way.Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he should concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didnt even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting frustrated, but then it hit me. I started noticing his answers were much quicker and accurate when he stood up. Could he be more intent while standing up?This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to success. This child would have the discipline to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life.Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality traits, and all you can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids best cheerleaders, guiding them and helping them find their way.I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine. We need to learn to accept our kids ways of doing things. Some way may have worked for me but doesnt mean we need to carry it through generations. There is nothing sweeter than being individual and unique. It makes us free and happy and thats just the way I want my kids to live their own life.1、At the beginning, the author