考研英语一2023年保定市北市区全真模拟试题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)Its only after three weeks into a new job that I made a serious mistake. My boss called it “extremely embarrassing” in a company-wide e-mail which, 1 , he wrote because he felt he needed to explain that what I did was something 2 in the company should ever do. I wish I 3 give a good excuse for what I did. At the very least, I wish I could explain it somehow 4 it on youth, inexperience or ignorance. Unfortunately, Im 5 , experienced and I know better. 6 I work with some very kind and compassionate (富于同情心的) people. For the past couple of days many of them have taken time to 7 by my desk and offer comfort, encouragement and support. Some have shared with me similar 8 they have made. Evidently Im not the only “ 9 ” person here.One of the exchanges I had this week was with Lois, the much-honored, much-respected professional who 10 the desk right next to mine. Lois was completely 11 about her work, and to be honest I was a little nervous about how she would 12 to such an extremely embarrassing incident.As I expected, Lois didnt pass over the 13 when she saw me the next day. She mentioned it directly, 14 with empathetic consideration. She listened to my 15 Just as I was ready to express my regrets, she brought my self-pity partly to a(n) 16 “It happened”, she said, “Theres nothing you can do to 17 that. It happened. But its over now. Its 18 Its in the past. You need to let it go, and move on.” And with that she returned her 19 to her work, as if to say, “Were done here.”I beat myself up for weeks. At such times I need to remember those 20 words: Its over. Its done. Let it go. And mostly, move on.1、Aby the wayBin the wayCon the wayDto the way2、AsomeoneBanyoneCno oneDthe one3、AshouldBmightCwillDcould4、AfixBblameCrelyDput5、AoutgoingBoldCcheerfulDenergetic6、AThankfullyBNaturallyCGenerallyDHopefully7、AworkBstopCwatchDsit8、AdecisionsBtroublesCattemptsDmistakes9、AannoyingBconfusingCembarrassingDpuzzling10、ArepairsBwantsCworksDoccupies11、AmadBseriousCcuriousDhopeful12、AreactBagreeCturnDobject13、AissueBoutcomeCstandardDmessage14、AforBthereforeCbutDotherwise15、AchallengeBimaginationCconclusionDexplanation16、AorderBkeyCendDprocess17、AforgetBruinCpreventDchange18、AbrokenBdoneClostDkept19、AattentionBskillCpatienceDinterest20、AsweetBpleasantCmeaningfulDcolorfulSection 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 1What Cocktail Parties Teach UsYoure at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel (分贝) level. Yet among all those distractions, you can tune your attention to just one voice from many. This ability is what researchers call the “cocktail-party effect”.Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco have found where that sound-editing process occurs in the brain in the auditory cortex (听觉皮层) just behind the ear, not in areas of higher thought. The auditory cortex boosts some sounds and turns down others so that when the signal reaches the higher brain, “its as if only one person was speaking alone,” says investigator Edward Chang.These findings, published in the journal Nature last week, explain why people arent very good at multitasking our brains are wired for “selective attention” and can focus on only one thing at a time. That inbornabilityhas helped humanssurvivein a world buzzing with visual and auditory stimulation (刺激). But we keeptryingto push the limits with multitasking, sometimes withtragic(悲剧的) consequences. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get intotrafficaccidents as those who arent.Many of those accidents are due to “inattentional blindness”, in which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they arent focusing on. The more attention a task demands, the less attention we can pay to other things in our field of vision. Images land on our retinas (视网膜) and are either boosted or played down in the visual cortex before being passed to the brain, just as the auditory cortex filters sounds, as shown in the Nature study last week. “Its a push-pullrelationship the more we focus on one thing, the less we can focus on others,” says Diane M. Beck, anassociateprofessor ofpsychologyat the University of Illinois.Studies over the pastdecadeat the University of Utah show that drivers talking on hands-free cellphones are just as influenced as t