考研英语一2023年文登市预测试卷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 Really Was a Santa ClausAnn worked for a big company. One of the duties of her 1 was to go to the post office every day and 2 the company mail. One day in December, she 3 a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus 4 on the corner of the street. Each day she 5 her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and 6 her a Merry Christmas.At night the temperature dropped below 0C, but the Santa Claus 7 stood in the cold wind. 8 she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.A week later, a(n) 9 Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “Hes very 10 today.” She prayed for his health.Later that day, a colleague came into her office 11 “I dont know what Im going to do.” “Whats wrong?” she asked. “Its my ex-husband,” her colleague 12 , I dont have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas, 13 my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they wont have anything this year.” The lady 14 her colleague, “Im sure everything will 15 . Its Christmas. Believe in miracles (奇迹).”That evening, she told her husband about her colleagues 16 , “I know we dont have much money to 17 , but Id like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. Well just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldnt afford to buy anything for 18 but we still had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled, “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”She reached up and held him. Warmth spread 19 her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus and he had 20 her!1、AfamilyBjobClifeDreligion2、AreceiveBgo throughCanswerDpick up3、AspottedBwatchedCsensedDfollowed4、AstandingBwaitingCplayingDperforming5、AearnedBcountedCsavedDthrew6、AsendBwishCofferDtell7、AevenBjustCstillDyet8、AAlthoughBIfCSinceDAfter9、AhonestBnewCconsiderateDstrong10、AsadBpoorCcoldDsick11、Ain tearsBin shockCin horrorDin trouble12、AconcludedBdecidedCcontinuedDcommented13、AorBbutCsoDotherwise14、AremindedBamusedCteasedDcomforted15、Awork outBcome backCrun outDopen up16、AmessageBsuggestionCsituationDexample17、AlendBhelpCloseDpay18、AourselvesBthemselvesCusDothers19、AofBtoCamongDthrough20、ArelaxedBdoubtedCmarriedDshapedSection 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 1It is that time of year when people need to lock their cars. Its not because there are a lot of criminals running around stealing cars. Rather, its because of the good-hearted neighbors who want to share their harvest. Especially with this years large crop, leaving a car unlocked in my neighborhood is an invitation for someone to stuff it full of zucchini（西葫芦）.My sister-in-law, Sharon, recently had a good year for tomatoes. She and her family had eaten and canned so many that they began to feel their skin turn slightly red. Thats when she decided it was time to share her blessings. She started calling everyone she knew. When that failed, she began to ask everyone in the neighborhood like a politician, eventually finding a neighbor delighted to have the tomatoes. “Feel free to take whatever you want,” Sharon told her. She felt happy that she could help someone and that the food didnt go to waste.A few days later, Sharon answered the door. There was the neighbor, holding some bread. The neighbor smiled pleasantly, “I want to thank you for all of the tomatoes, and I have to admit that I took a few other things and hope you wouldnt mind.”Sharon couldnt think of anything else in her garden that had been worth harvesting and said no. “Oh, but you did,” the neighbor said. “You had some of the prettiest zucchini Ive ever seen.”Sharon was confused. Zucchini in her garden? They hadnt even plated any zucchini. But her neighbor insisted that there really were bright-green zucchini in her garden. The two of them walked together into the backyard. When the neighbor pointed at the long green vegetables, Sharon smiled, “Well, actually, those are cucumbers that we never harvested, because they got too big, soft and bitter for eating or canning.”The neighbor looked at Sharon, shock written all over her face. Then she smiled, and held out the bread that she had shared all over the neighborhood, “I brought you a loaf of cucumber bread. I hope you like it.”1、Why does the author suggest that people in the neighborhood shou