考研英语一晋中市灵石县2023年预测密卷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)At an airport I overheard a father and a daughter in their last moments together. He said to his daughter, “I love you. I wish you 1 She said, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever 2 .I wish you enough, too They kissed goodbye and she left.The father stood there 3 with tears in his eyes. I tried not to interrupt his privacy, but he 4 me and greeted me by asking, “Did you ever say goodbye to someone knowing it would be 5 ?” “Yes, I have,” I replied.Saying that brought back my memories of expressing my love and 6 of all my dad had done for me. Recognising that his days were 7 , I spent the time telling him face to face how much he 8 to me. So I knew what this man was 9 .“Forgive me for asking, but why is this a goodbye forever?” I asked. “I am old and she lives much too faraway I have 10 ahead and the reality is that her next trip back will be 11 for my funeral,” he said. “When you were saying goodbye, I heard you say I wish you enough. May I ask what that means?” He began to 12 . “Thats wish that has been handed down from other 13 .” He paused for a moment looking up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more .“When we said I wish you enough, we 14 the other persons to have a life filled with enough good things 15 them,” he continued the following as if he were 16 it from memory. “I wish you enough sunlight to keep your attitude 17 . I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear 18 bigger I wish you enough gain to satisfy your needs. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you 19 . I wish you enough Hellos to get you 20 the final goodbye.” he then began to sob and walked away.1、Aenough Bluck Csuccess Dhealth2、Asupport Bpraise Cjudge Dneed3、Acarefully Bsilently Cseriously Dgratefully4、Anoticed Bmonitored Cthanked Dobserved5、Aendless Bmeaningful Cforever Dtemporarily6、Aappreciation Badmission Centhusiasm Dsacrifice7、Adark Bshort Cwonderful DBitter8、Aexplained Blent Cmeant Dintroduced9、Awondering Bexperiencing Capproving Dimagining10、Adifferences Bpassions Cwonders Dchallenges11、Aprobably Bextremely Cgradually Dclearly12、Asmile Bshout Csuffer DCry13、Acountries Bgenerations Cmothers Dcommunities14、Aadmitted Bput Cthought Dwanted15、Apromising Bteaching Csurrounding Dcharging16、Areminding Blosing Cforgetting Dreciting17、Aserious Bopposite Cbright Dopen18、Aonly Bmuch Cany Djust19、Atreat Bdecide Cdonate Dpossess20、Athrough Bin Calong DacrossSection 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 During the period from 1660 through 1800, Great Britain became the worlds leader. Language itself became submitted to rules during this period. This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. Guides to the English language had been in existence before Johnson began his project in 1746. These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words. When definitions of common words were supplied, they were often unhelpful. For example, a “horse” was defined in an early dictionary as “a beast well known”.Johnson changed all that, but the task was not an easy one. Renting a house at 17 Gough Square, Johnson began working in the worst of conditions. Supported only by his publisher, Johnson worked on the Dictionary with five assistants. Compared to the French Academys dictionary, which took forty workers fifty-five years to complete (1639-1694), Johnsons dictionary was completed by very few people very quickly.Balanced on a chair with only three legs, Johnson sat against a wall in a room filled with books. Johnson would read widely from these books, mark passages illustrating the use of a particular word, and give the books to his assistants so that they could copy the passages on slips of paper. These slips were then stuck to eighty large notebooks under the key words that Johnson had selected. Fixing the word by this method, Johnson could record a word，s usage and its definition.How many passages were used? According to Johnsons modern biographer Walter Jackson Bate, the ori