考研英语一2023年侯马市模拟试题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)I was travelling between two cities in India overnight by bus.I was 1 to this place.I took an electric tricycle（三轮车）,telling the driver to 2 me at a bus stop from where I could get a direct bus to my final destination.I had very little 3 so I let him know that he could drop me at the 4 point.The driver tried communicating with me on the way,trying to judge my 5 .He was also trying to 6 an ATM for me.He wanted to drop me at home,so he could 7 more money.However,finally he realized I was 8 out of cash and hed better drop me at the 9 stop.This destination was not too far away but realizing that I was new,he had 10 me extra money,which I had 11 , not being aware.At this bus stop,while dropping me off,this driver was feeling awkward about the 12 I might face by taking a local bus.I had two bags of luggage with me which I would need to 13 on the bus and then from a bus stop to home.The driver didnt drop me off and 14 .He went around finding another electric tricycle for me and 15 I take a full tricycle for Rs.60 if I could afford it,or else 16 the tricycle with other passengers,paying Rs.30.I chose the latter. He 17 that sharing might not be comfortable.I could see he was doing all this because he was feeling 18 about taking extra money from me.I smiled at his good 19 ,which made him feel wrong at cheating me,though it was a very small amount.I felt good about the existing 20 standards in the city.1、Aloyal Bsensitive Cnew Dimportant2、Acheat Bdrop Chelp Dvisit3、Acash Btime Cpatience Dluggage4、Acleanest Bbusiest Csafest Dclosest5、Apersonality Bsituation Cprofession Dbirth6、Afind Bbook Crob Dget7、Asave Bsteal Close Dmake8、Agradually Busually Cactually Dfortunately9、Ataxi Bbus Ctrain Dbicycle10、Acharged Boffered Clent Dpaid11、Awritten down Bobjected to Cagreed to Dturned down12、Adilemma Bdistance Cdestination Dopportunity13、Astore Bhide Cpack Dcarry14、Areturn Bleave Cstay Dwait15、Abegged Bcommanded Csuggested Durged16、Arefuse Bbuy Cavoid Dshare17、Ahoped Bdoubted Cinsisted Dexamined18、Ahappy Bbad Cgrateful Ddesperate19、Abody Bhabit Cappearance Dheart20、Amoral Bnational Cscientific DpoliticalSection 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 Inside a secured room in a beautiful castle near Paris, a small metal cylinder (圆柱体) rests on a shelf beneath a double set of bell jars. It has lain there for more than a century, its rest only occasionally disturbed when the rooms three key holders perform a coordinated opening ceremony to let technicians enter and clean this precious piece of metal.First, the cylinder is rubbed with a piece of soft, alcohol-soaked cloth. Then it is steamed with pure water. Finally, the 1kg cylinder is returned, carefully, to its resting place.Such attention to a lump of metal is unusual, but has a purpose. The castle houses the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and that piece of shining, circular metal is its holiest relic. It is the defining mass (质量)against which all other kilograms are measured. This is the international prototype, or standard, of the kilogram. The IPK, in short.Dozens of carefully weighted copies of the original have been made. They are stored around the world and used to standardise individual nations weights and measures systems.But the days of the IPK, in its current form, are numbered. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has decided to replace this single physical specimen with a more fundamental measurement based on electric current in order to define the mass of an object. The king of kilograms is about to be dethroned.“One key reason for doing this work is to provide international security,” says Bureau spokesman Paul Robinson. “If the castle burned down tomorrow and the kilogram was destroyed, we would have no reference left for the worlds metric weights system. There would be chaos. The current definition of the kilogram is the weight of that cylinder in Paris, after all.”Another major motivation for the replacement of the IPK is the growing need to be able to carry out more and more precise measurements. “Drug companies will soon be wanting to use ingredients that will have to be measured in terms of a few millionths or even billionths of a gram,” says Robinson. “We need to be prepared to