考研英语一泸州市龙马潭区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)That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring 1 at the theatre. With opening night only a week away, I was 2 learning my lines. I was having trouble 3 my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously 4 giving up both acting and San Francisco. 5 had become too much for me.As I walked down 6 streets under tall buildings, I felt very 7 and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets.About a block from my apartment, I heard a sound behind me. I turned 8 , half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. 9 I saw was a shining streetlight. 10 , the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run fast. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk. 11 I wasnt cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to 12 Id heard the noise. 13 I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.Just as I was about 14 the search, I heard the garbage truck pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice 15 from the inside. “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man with an 16 look in his eyes. “Is this what youre looking for?” he asked, 17 a small square shape.It was nearly 3 a. m. by the time I got into bed. I 18 get much sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I 19 had gotten back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldnt be a bad place 20 people were willing to help each other.1、Aexercise Bwork Cpractice Dtraining2、Astill Balready Cyet Donly3、Ato deal with Bto handle with Chandling with Ddealing with4、Aof Babout Cover Dout5、ACity life BCountry life CSchool life DModern life6、Abusy Bcrowded Cnoisy Dempty7、Aproud Bconfident Csmall Dexcited8、Afast Bimmediately Crapidly Dquickly9、AAll which BAll CThat DWhich10、ATherefore BStill CConsequently DSubsequently11、ASuddenly BGradually CAbsolutely DExactly12、Awhich Bthat Cwhere Dwhat13、AEven if BAlthough CAs if DAs though14、Ato give in Bgiving in Cto give up Dgiving up15、Acalled Bcalling Cwas called Dto call16、Aamusing Bamazing Camazed Damused17、Ato hold up Bholding up Cto hold on Dholding on18、Acouldnt Bwouldnt Cdidnt Dshouldnt19、Astill Balready Calso Dcertainly20、Aas far as Bas well as Cas soon as Das long asSection 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 1My wife and I owned two doge that we had owned before we met and brought into the marriage. Her dog was a pit bull(斗牛犬) named Zack, and he hated me. When our daughter was born, I was worried that the family pit bull would be dangerous to have around our young daughter. I warned my wife that the dog would have to go at the first sign of trouble. I said, “If he nips(啃咬) at the baby, hes gone.”We brought our daughter home in a car seat, and both dogs sniffed(嗅）and licked her, tails wagging. I had to pull Zack away from her because he wouldnt stop licking her. Zack immediately became my daughters protector, and when she was lying on a blanket on the floor, he always had one foot on the blanket.Zack loved my daughter extremely, and when she became a little older always walked her to bed, and then slept on the bed with her. He somehow knew whenever it was time to go upstairs, and he would wait at the bottom of the stairs for her, and then follow her up to bed.Zack was poisoned by some neighbor kids, and we had one of the worst days of our lives. Watching my daughter say goodbye to him as he lay still on the kitchen floor, my wife and I were both sobbing.At 8:00 that night, my daughter walked to the stairs to go to bed. At that moment, all three of us realized what was about to happen. My daughter looked at her mother and me with a look of horror and panic.It was at that moment that my dog, Sam who loved my daughter dearly, stood up, walked over to her, and nudged her with his head. He put his foot on the stairs, and looked up at he