考研英语一2023年海南藏族自治州贵德县高分冲刺试题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)I sat and waited for Kathleen to speak. “Annie,” she said, “A food bank that serves the elderly is asking for 1 . Id like you to organize the event” “Well, errrsure.” As I stuttered (结巴地说) through my 2 , all I could think was, “What? Why me?”I walked back to my office wondering where to 3 . This was a time when the economy was 4 . The rise in unemployment forced many of my coworkers to 5 to survive. How could I ask them for more?That evening I drove home with negativity. Then I remembered a time when my father was out of work. Mom wrote a note to Jim, the milkman, asking him not to 6 any more milk. Two days later Jim picked up the 7 and left four liters of milk. He wrote his message, which read, “Kids need milk.” The milk delivery 8 as usual and Jim never collected a cent 9 us.The memory of Jims 10 fired my enthusiasm. Perhaps Id be in for a pleasant surprise.The next morning I 11 signs about our food drive all over the cafeteria and on every notice board I could find. Each sign said, “Food drive to support the poor elderly! 12 of non-perishable (不易腐的) foods are greatly needed.”Within a few days I had to locate empty office space to 13 the massive number of contributions we had 14 . One of my coworkers, Maggie, made the rounds with me every day from one department to another to 15 the canned goods and other foods. Though over sixty, she pushed our food trolley around with the 16 of a woman half her age.I asked her where she got all the enthusiasm. She said, “With the unemployment rate touching 10 percent, I cant think of a better way to be 17 for keeping our jobs when so many have 18 theirs. Sure money is 19 . But when isnt it? People need food.”As I listened to Maggie, the milkmans words 20 in my ears, “Kids need milk.”1、Aadvice Bhelp Cpity Dmedicine2、Aresponse Bcomment Cexplanation Dcomplaint3、Asit Bstay Cbegin Dwork4、Agrowing Bfading Crecovering Dbooming5、Adrive Battempt Crefuse Dstruggle6、Aspare Bdrink Cdeliver Dsell7、Akeys Bkids Ccents Dempties8、Areturned Bcontinued Cstopped Ddelayed9、Afor Bto Cwith Dfrom10、Akindness Bhappiness Cpatience Dpoliteness11、Adesigned Bnoticed Cmarked Dposted12、ABargains BDemands CDonations DPurchases13、Acheck Bstore Cseparate Dclear14、Acollected Bbought Cfound Dselected15、Atake up Btake out Cpick up Dpick out16、Asatisfaction Bquality Cenergy Dmotivation17、Alucky Bproud Cdelighted Dgrateful18、Alost Bdeserved Cabandoned Dwanted19、Aavailable Btight Cenough Dpowerful20、Arang Bdisappeared Chid DfellSection 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 1That people often experience trouble sleeping in a different bed in unfamiliar surroundings is a phenomenon known as the 4Tirst-nighf, effect. If a person stays in the same room the following night they tend to sleep more soundly. Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.Dr. Sasaki knew the first-night effect probably has something to do with how humans evolved.The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be affected the following day. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators (捕食者). This led her to wonder if people might be doing the same thing. To take a closer look, her team studied 35 healthy people as they slept in the unfamiliar environment of the universitys Department of Psychological Sciences. The participants each slept in the department for two nights and were carefully monitored with techniques that looked at the activity of their brains. Dr. Sasaki found, as expected, the participants slept less well on their first night than they did on their second, taking more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less overall. During deep sleep, the participants brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins. On the first night only, the left hemispheres (半球) of their brains did not sleep nearly as deeply as their right hemispheres did.Curious if the left hemispheres were indeed remaining awake to process information detected in the surrounding environment, Dr. Sasaki re-ran the expe