考研英语一2023年宝鸡市扶风县预测试题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)As I walked through a parking lot on a cold night, I saw a homeless man. He was settling in to 1 against the wall surrounding a trash bin. Though I knew as a woman, it was 2 for me to ask g strange man if he needed 3 , I turned and walked back.“Sir,” I began, “I live over there.” I pointed to my complex and 4 that the police officer in the community said they would try to help the homeless find 5 if we called. I asked if it was okay to 6 the police, and he said that it was. 7 I do not carry a cellphone, I 8 a call at a nearby business. I was afraid the police would pass by and not see him. I did not want him to be 9 . When I returned, I asked if it was okay for me to 10 with him. Again, he calmly 11 . He then asked, “Do you think theyll find me an apartment?”“I do believe so” is my 12 to him. I did not have any money or food with me 13 .two water bottles. I smiled, pulled out one of the water bottles and 14 it to him. He took the bottle and then sat up, as if he wanted to respect the 15 I made. He thought for a moment and then began drinking small sips of the water.When the officers arrived, they 16 me that he would have housing and even thanked me. To my 17 , I was unwilling to leave the man. I realized an unexpected 18 was born. It was the calm man whose name I never knew that 19 me that though there will always be people who are better able to do 20 , sometimes you must stop because you are the one who is there.1、Aeat Blearn Csleep Dlean2、Astrange Bunwise Cnecessary Dvital3、Ahelp Bguide Cdonation Dsponsor4、Aexcused Binquired Cexpressed Dexplained5、Ashelter Bmoney Cfood Ddrink6、Abeg Bquestion Ccontact Dtouch7、AWhile BSince CWhen DIf8、Areceived Bconfirmed Creturned Dmade9、Ainvisible Bimpolite Cignorant Dannoyed10、Aplay Bchat Clive Dwait11、Aforgot Bagreed Crefused Ddoubted12、Aidea Breason Ccause Dresponse13、Ayet Beven Cjust Dstill14、Aoffered Blent Csent Dowed15、Adecision Beffort Cpromise Ddifference16、Arequired Bwarned Cassured Dinformed17、Asurprise Bjoy Cregret Dpride18、Abusiness Baction Corganization Dconnection19、Aadvised Bcalled Creminded Dallowed20、Aeverything Bsomething Cnothing DanythingSection 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 1The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city. In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as masterpieces.In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street crowds who were concerned with marking their territory(领地). They worked in groups called “crews” and called what they did “writing” the term “graffiti” was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time that it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.The debate over whether graffiti is art or deliberate damage is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone elses property it becomes a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti destroyers out there,” he said recently, “and your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.” On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities livelier.For decades graffiti has been a springboard to international fame for a few. Jean-Michel Basquiat began spraying on the street in the 1970s before becoming a respected artist in the 80s. The Frenchman Blek le