考研英语一宿州市泗县2023年考前冲刺预测试卷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)A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling. Last week I was invited to a doctors meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards, a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadnt long to_, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldnt_, as I knew, but all the time_his foot against mine.My_raced back more than thirty years to the_days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The_was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about one hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank._ wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to_each other very well. Frank West_me because he wasnt _, not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had_of a mind than a baby has. His “_” consisted of rough soundssounds of pleasure or anger and _more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank _on her entirely. He needed all the_of a baby.One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder (炮弹). She_nearly everything she owned.When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the _ones. So before we_that morning, I stood beside Frank and_my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his_to me was always the same.1、AworkBliveCstayDexpect2、AanswerBspeakCsmileDlaugh3、AcoveringBmovingCfightingDpressing4、AmindsBmemoriesCthoughtsDbrains5、AdarkBbetterCyoungerDold6、AcaveBplaceCsightDscene7、ADiscussingBSolvingCSharingDSuffering8、Alearn fromBtalk toChelpDknow9、AneededBrecognizedCinterestedDencouraged10、AcommonBnormalCunusualDquick11、AmoreBworseCfewerDless12、AwordBspeechCsentenceDlanguage13、AnotBnoCsomethingDnothing14、AfedBkeptClivedDdepended15、AattentionBcontrolCtreatmentDmanagement16、AlostBneededCdestroyedDleft17、AunluckyBtroublesomeCangryDunpopular18、AseparatedBwentCreunitedDreturned19、ApushedBtriedCshowedDmeasured20、AnoddingBgreetingCmeetingDactingSection 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 1Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson. Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and family but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him; as a school girl and young adult I feared him and felt bitter（仇恨的）bout him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight As and unhappy with my boy friends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my fathers friends for lunch at an outdoor cafe. We walked along that afternoon, did some shopping ate on the street table, and laughed over my sons funny facial expressions. Gone was my fathers critical(挑剔的)air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father, who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? What had held him back before?The next day my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, Im at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing, Im delighted with my new friend. My dad in his new home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was.1、hy did the author feel bitter about her father when she was a young adult?AHe was silent most of the time BHe was too proud of himselfCHe expected too much of her DHe did not love his children2、When the author went out with her father on weekends, she would feel _.Asafe BsorryCtired Dnervous3、What does the author think of her father after her visit to Tucson?AGentle and friendly BMore talkativeCMore critical DStrict and hard-working4、The underlined words “my new friend” in the last paragraph refer to _.Athe authors son Bthe friend of the authors fatherCthe authors