考研英语一2023年德兴市押题密卷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) From a young age, I was taught to be kind to people around. My parents 1 explained to me the importance of giving help generously to the less 2 . So out of habit, whenever there is something I can 3 , I give it to someone on the streets.Last week, as I left the house for work, I carried with me some 4 clothes, a handbag and some food to hand over to someone 5 .As the car 6 at a traffic red light, I saw a girl of five or six asking for money. I 7 her to come to me and quickly 8 all the stuff I had and put them into the handbag. As I started handing it over, she seemed 9 . She looked up at me with a sweet smile on her face and asked what was in the 10 . I told her there were some clothes and food for her.Once again she 11 me, “Can you give me some water?” It was then that I 12 her dry lips. It seemed that she had not had a 13 of water all day. I 14 the water bottle that I always carry with me and helped her to drink from it. She finished it quickly and gave me a heartwarming smile of 15 .I was thankful that I could 16 what she really wished and realized once again that day that you dont necessarily have to make big 17 to help someone. And this incident, as well as a lot that followed, 18 my belief in the simple acts of kindness and how they can make someones day.Next time you want to do something nice for someone, dont 19 , seizing the right 20 , or it would be late. Go ahead and do it!1、AcheerfullyBconfidentlyCparticularlyDsmoothly2、AdifficultBrichCcomfortableDfortunate3、AfindBexchangeCspareDabandon4、AcasualBwornColdDfashionable5、AneedyBclumsyCluckyDlonely6、ApulledBstoppedCapproachedDdrew7、AwantedBorderedCtouchedDsignaled8、AthrewBcollectedCdraggedDdropped9、AsurprisedBembarrassedCpanickedDworried10、AbagBpocketCcarDhand11、Awaved atBlooked up atCshook hands withDnodded at12、ArealizedBwatchedCrecognizedDnoticed13、AbottleBdropClotDcup14、Apointed outBgave outCpicked outDtook out15、AsatisfactionBcommunicationCappreciationDexpectation16、AaffordBofferCunderstandDremember17、AdonationsBdifferencesCsensesDkindness18、AstrengthenedBchangedCshookDdestroyed19、Ahold outBhold onChold backDhold down20、AideaBpowerCpositionDopportunitySection 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 1Throughout history, artist, inventors, writers and scientists have solved problems in their dreams. Now, lets have a look together at some of them.1.Paul McCartney Found Yesterday in a dreamPaul McCartney is one of the most famous singers/songwriters of all time. According to the Guinness Book of Records, his Beatles song Yesterday(1965) has the most cover（翻唱） versions of any song ever written and, according to record label BMI，was performed over seven million times in the 20th century.The tune for Yesterday came to Paul McCartney in a dream.“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, Thats great, I wonder what that is? There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of my bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor- and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the _melody a lot, but because Id dreamed it, I couldnt believe Id written it. I thought, No, Ive never written anything like this before. But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing! ”2. Mary Shelleys Frankentein Inspired by a DreamIn the summer of 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover, the poet Percy Shelley (whom she married later that year),visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byrons other guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron challenged his guests to each write one themselves.Marys story, inspired by a dream, became Frankentein（科学怪人）.“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think-My eyes shut ,I saw-with my acute mental vision-the pale student of unholy arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the ugly figure of a man stretch out, and then , on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and tremble with an uneasy motion, extremely frightful. The next morning I announced that I had thought of a story. I began that day with the words, It was on