中卫市 海原县2023年考研英语一临考冲刺试题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)The Best Love I have been married to Scott for 20 years. He has 1 15 pounds. Once a marathon runner, he now runs only down 2 halls. His hair is becoming less and his body shows the 3 of long working hours and too many candy bars. When my friend asked me What will make this love last? I ran through all the obvious 4 : responsibility, unselfishness, physical attraction, communication. Yet theres more. We still have fun. Last Saturday at the grocery, we split the shopping 5 and raced each other to see who could make it to the checkout first.We 6 being together. There is understanding I understand why he must play basketball with the guys. And he understands why, once a year, I must get away from the house to 7 my sisters for a few days of nonstop talking and laughing. There is sharing. Not only do we 8 household worries and parental burdenswe also share 9 .Once, Scott sent me a thick historical novel. 10 he prefers thrillers(惊险小说) and science fiction, he had read the novel first. He 11 my heart when he explained it was because he wanted to be able to 12 ideas about the book after Id read it. There is forgiveness. When Im embarrassingly loud and 13 at parties, Scott forgives me. When he admitted 14 some of our savings in the stock market, I gave him a hug and said, Its nothing 15 . Its only money. Finally there is sensitivity. Last week he came home and told me about a 60-year-old woman whod had a stroke(中风) and would probably never 16 ? He wept as he recalled the womans 17 standing beside her bed, holding her hand. I 18 too. Because it was of the medical crisis. Because there were still people who have been married 40 years. Because my husband is still moved and 19 after years of hospital rooms and dying patients.I guess weve got what it 20 to make our love last.1、Areduced Blost Cgained Dmade2、Ahospital Bcollege Cconcert Dlecture3、Aabilities Bchances Csign Drights4、Amethods Breasons Csolutions Dadvantages5、Abasket Bcenter Ccost Dlist6、Aavoid Benjoy Chate Dmind7、Ameet Bleave Cattend Dfollow8、Abear Bshare Ctolerate Descape9、Ahappiness Bsorrow Cinterests Dideas10、AThough BSince CUnless DOnce11、Ahurt Btook Cstuck Dtouched12、Aexchange Bexpress Cfind Dprovide13、Apolite Bgentle Ccrazy Denthusiastic14、Aincreasing Blosing Cgetting Dwinning15、Astrange Binteresting Cspecial Dserious16、Amove Bwalk Cspeak Drecover17、Adaughter Bson Chusband Dbrother18、Acried Bsmiled Cregretted Dagreed19、Aexcited Bastonished Cconcerned Ddelighted20、Ameans Btakes Cpromises DbringsSection 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 1On the day the tornado hit, there was no sign severe weather was on its waythe sky was blue and the sun had been out. My husband Jimmy and I were watching TV upstairs.No sooner had we got the coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. We had three flights of steps to get through to get to the relative safety of the first floor.As we struggled to reach the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Pieces of glass that looked like crushed ice flew everywhere. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have impaled us.By the time I reached the closet, Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldnt get inside himself because of the wind. I grasped Jimmys arm and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and head 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.“Hold on! Hold on!” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to.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. Jimmy said hed go outside to check. “No,” I said. “Dont leave me. Dont leave me.”Our neighbor says 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 wer