考研英语一山东省青岛市四方区2023年模拟预测试卷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) Years ago, we celebrated our oldest sons first birthday by holding a super party. I spent months 1 , cutting out handmade banners（横幅）and making all kinds of decorations. I kept 2 my husbands work as he built a cardboard city background. And I would lose 3 of my emotions when it didnt progress exactly as I 4 .I didnt know exactly why I stuck to 5 a party like that, but I felt this unspoken 6 . It was a feeling that my 7 as a mom and my love for my son were tied to how 8 this party was. Actually my son was turning one year old, and he had no idea what was going on. 9 , this clearly meant nothing to him.I tried to 10 other people and maybe even prove something to myself, only to find it made me 11 . On his birthday, I put on a ton of makeup（化妆品） to 12 my stress and smiled to our 13 even though I nearly broke down. It was the 14 party because of the memories attached to it! I ruined a 15 memory for me as a mother and decided to make a 16 .Last weekend, we celebrated my other son Hudsons sixth birthday. He asked a Ninjago theme, so a week before the party, I searched Amazon (a shopping website) and 17 a banner and some basic party materials as he 18 . On that day, we ordered a big meal and used disposable（一次性的）plates to avoid hours of cleaning up. The party was 19 but perfect. As Hudson went to bed that night, he told me it was his best birthday ever.Parents 20 for kids does not lie in the complexity of celebrating kids birthday.1、AresearchingBpreparingCthinkingDstudying2、AignoringBdoubtingCfindingDchecking3、AcontrolBcountCsightDtrack4、AlearnedBexplainedCexpectedDpromised5、AdamagingBarrangingCattendingDleaving6、AfearsBconcernCquestionsDpressure7、AdreamBjobCidentityDpost8、ApersonalBdifficultCfamiliarDbrilliant9、AHoweverBThereforeCAnyhowDBesides10、ApersuadeBremindCinspireDimpress11、AdelightedBannoyedCtiredDastonished12、AcreateBcoverCexpressDexperience13、AneighborsBrelativesCcolleaguesDguests14、AworstBnewestCbestDbiggest15、AclearBbitterCpreciousDaccurate16、AmessBdealCjokeDchange17、AdesignedBpurchasedCmadeDwanted18、AtaughtBdidCdemandedDcommanded19、AsplendidBcomplicatedCplainDboring20、AaffectionBpraiseCsympathyDadviceSection 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 1Due to light pollution present everywhereglare from too much misaimed night lighting80% of Europe and North America no longer experiences real darkness. For anyone living near a major metropolis, a satellite image of the Milky Way (银河) seems abstract；We understand it to be a document of something true, but our understanding is purely theoretical. In 1994, after a pre-dawn earthquake cut power to most of Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory received phone calls from frightened local people asking about “the strange sky”. What those callers were seeing were stars. Darkness is a complicated thing to measure. In 2001, the amateur astronomer John Bortle designed a scale to help. His classification range from “inner-city sky” (class 9), in which the only “pleasing views seen through a telescope are the moon, the planets, and a few of the brightest star clusters (团)”, to a sky so dark “the Milky Way casts obvious shadows on the ground” (class 1). Most North Americans and Europeans live under class 6 or 7 skies, in which the Milky Way is undetectable. In that kind of night, a person can wander outside, unfold a garden chair, open a newspaper, and read the headlines, if not the stories.In addition to the Bortle scale, scientists often use photodiode light sensors (传感器）to measure and compare base levels of darkness. Unihedrons Sky Qua1ity Meter is the most popular instrument for this kind of work, partly because it is small enough to fit into your pocket and also because it connects to an online global database. According to that database, Cherry Springs State Parkan 82-acre park in remote rural Pennsylvaniapresently has the second darkest score listed.Cherry Springs is located less than 300 miles inland from the US eastern seaboard, in a regionthe East Coastthat contains 36% of the total US population and is lit up every night like a backstage makeup mirror. When pinpointed on a satellite image, Cherry Springs is in the middle of an uncharacteristically dark areainsulated (隔离), on all sides, by hundreds of thousands of acres of protected forest and sitting on top of the Allegheny Plateau, 700