考研英语一2023年湖南省怀化市靖州苗族侗族自治县模拟预测试卷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)There is an old proverb “The writer creates half the text; the reader creates the other half”. The statement is quite apt and very clear to clarify the fact that 1 is very important aspect of education. Conversation, experience, reading and observation are the ways by which an individual 2 And so it is clear that process of learning is 3 without reading.A very suitable example fitting in this context is from our evolution. We have 4 different ages, from Stone Age to Iron Age and from iron to space age, just by reading the hand 5 articles of our own ancestors and learning 6 their mistakes.When we 7 the pages of dictionary or search for a literal definition of “Reading”, we will find that it actually is a way of words attainment for active communication, and for 8 ideas and information. It is also a 9 of complicated interaction between the transcript and the 10 The reading process obliges constant practices, progress, and improvement.Reading and education is not just going through the text; it is actually a skill, talent or an expertise. It is measured by 11 parameters like phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Although there are a number of 12 and techniques in reading, there are three tools by which one can improve reading and 13 skills. Lets find the three:Skimming: It is a skill by which readers gather the most prior information. In this process one has to only go through the text, grasping 14 information. Understanding does not actually 15 here. Reading morning newspaper is the 16 of this skill.Scanning: It is used to locate or mind a particular piece of information. The reader in this process is more conscious 17 here is also not so vital. One can go just reading and noting the important information which he/she are 18 Going through the travel ticket is the best example of this process.Intensive Reading: As the name suggest, this skill 19 thorough reading. Understanding is also one of its important aspects. It requires a concentration from the part of readers. Going through educational note or property papers are the example of 20 reading.1、AlisteningBrespectingCreadingDspeaking2、ApracticesBremembersCgrowsDlearns3、AincompleteBuselessCincorrectDinconvenient4、ApassedBrepeatedCmovedDsaw5、AspokenBwrittenCboughtDshown6、AinBfromCatDon7、Ago onBgo throughCgo aboutDgo after8、AsharingBarguingCenjoyingDcollecting9、AthoughtBreliefCprocessDtopic10、AbuyerBwaiterCwriterDreader11、AdifferentBdifficultCreliableDclassic12、AideasBmarksCcopiesDtools13、AoccupationBmeasureCcomprehensionDeducation14、ApoliticalBpersonalCimportantDinteresting15、AdifferBmatterCworkDoccur16、AexplanationBexampleCmomentDidiom17、AResearchBUnderstandingCInformationDSurvey18、Aglancing atBspeaking ofClooking afterDSearching for19、ArequiresBmeetsCreplacesDattracts20、AcreativeBactiveCnativeDIntensiveSection 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 1 I was in the Sants Cruz Mountains not long ago, speaking and singing at a womens conference. We were focusing on the theme of loving others in practical ways through our gifts, and something in particular happened during one of the sessions（会议）will remain imprinted in memory.A young Syrian woman (Lilith) was invited to the conference at the last minute, and everyone seemed surprised and delighted that shed actually come. Just a few days earlier, Lilith had fled her country and found refuge with one of the women attending the conference. As an Orthodox Christian in Syria, she and her loved ones had become attacked targets of violent terrorist groups in the countrys ongoing civil war.Lilith had witnessed horrors no one of her young age should ever see. Despite the further danger it presented, shed decided to leave her home and her family to find safety here in America. Knowing some of her story, and seeing her sitting through the sessions at the retreat（畏缩不前）-head, covered in a scarf, bowed toward the floor-broke my heart.Liliths story touched all of us, including Pam, who was quilt maker. Pam had just finished a beautiful quilt, and had brought it with her. She, along with a few of the leaders, decided to give it to Lilith as a symbol of their comfort and love.During our last session, Lilith was called forward and prayed over, hugged, and wrapped up in that beautiful quilt. I thought of the many hours Pam undoubtedly spent working on it, and the terribl