考研英语一邢台市清河县2023年巅峰冲刺试卷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)When I was in third grade, my parents let me join an advanced preparatory math class, Sigma. 1 , I had never displayed a liking for math at school. I stepped into class on the first day thinking that I would spend a year at Sigma before leaving A: On the first day of class, we 2 an hour long test. I 3 did the best I could and tried to 4 how to solve the problems I hadnt learned how to do in school. However, 5 I hadnt expected was to come 6 ! Before that day, I had never believed I was good at math at all. But as the year went on, I 7 got the highest score.When I was in eighth grade, I joined my schools math team where I was one of the 8 four students chosen to 9 our school at a statewide middle school math competition. By the time I had created a 10 for myself at school as a math girl. But what drew me to the math team was that it was the first community I felt like I was a real 11 of. It was a home I 12 where everyone was as excited about 13 as I was.I stopped going to Sigma when I was in ninth grade, but I still stayed in the math team. The math team isnt like sigma-a place to make you believe in yourself, to take 14 tests and compete to see where you are 15 relative to your classmates. The math team is the community where I have pushed myself to my 16 and have seen other people 17 themselves. And most 18 , the math team is the place where I have met some of the kindest people I know today. Thank you, math team, for giving me friends and people I will 19 even after I go off to college in less than a year and a half. Thank you for making me feel 20 .1、ATherefore BBesides CHowever DLuckily2、Ahated Barranged Ctook Dfailed3、Ahardly Bextremely Crarely Dmerely4、Agive out Bfigure out Csend out Dturn out5、Aas Bwhat Cwhich Dthat6、Afirst Bsecond Cthird Dlast7、Aconstantly Bgradually Caccidentally Dimmediately8、Acenter Bmiddle Ctop Dbottom9、Apresent Breplace Creserve Drepresent10、Aplan Bgame Cscene Dreputation11、Apart Bgirl Cstudent Dpresenter12、Afelt at Bbelonged to Ccreated Dleft13、Apicture-taking Bproblem-solving Ctrouble-making Dlecture-giving14、Afruitless Bhelpless Chopeless Dendless15、Ataught Bvisited Cranked Dscanned16、Acompetence Blimits Cclass Dability17、Apush Benjoy Cfind Dshow18、Asurprisingly Bnecessarily Cimportantly Dstrictly19、Atreasure Bknow Cpreserve Dforget20、Apitied Bdeserted Cgraded DlovedSection 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 Any foreigner who has tried to learn Chinese can tell how hard it is to master the tones required to speak and understand. And anyone who has tried to learn to play the violin or other instruments can report similar challenges.Now researchers have found that people with musical training have an easier time learning Chinese. Writing in the online edition of Nature Neuroscience，researchers from Northwestern University say that both skills draw on the same parts of the brain that help people discover changes in pitch(音调).One of the studys authors，Nina Kraus，said the findings suggested that studying music “actually tunes our sensory system”.This means that schools that want children to do well in languages should hesitate before cutting music programs，Dr. Kraus said. She said music training might also help children with language problems.Mandarin(普通话)speakers have been shown to have a more complex encoding(编码) of pitch patterns in their brains than English speakers do. This is because in Mandarin and other Asian languages，pitch plays a central role. A singlesyllable word can have several meanings depending on how it is intoned.For this study，the researchers looked at 20 nonChinese speaking volunteers，half with no musical background and half who have studied an instrument for at least six years.As they were shown a movie，the volunteers also heard an audio tape of the Mandarin word “mi” in three of its meanings:squint，bewilder and rice. The researchers recorded activities in their brain stems to see how well they were processing the sounds. Those with a music background showed much more brain activities in response to the Chinese sounds.The lead author of the study，Patrick CM.Wong，said it might work both ways. It appears that native speakers of tonal languages may do better at learning instruments.1、When lea