考研英语一2023年青海省玉树藏族自治州玉树县预测密卷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) As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her 1 face.Frustrated and wet, my husband gave up his attempt to hail a taxi. I knew the feeling. Just after her first birthday, we were told our daughter Katie has a 2 brain illness. Since that moment, Doug and I felt like 3 in a marathon race where the finish line kept disappearing. We knew Katie was running out of 4 . It had taken months before we finally had a name for the 5 , but we were told only a few specialists in the world knew how to 6 it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to 7 our girl, we were in a strange city in the cold rain.Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman 8 and said, “Pardon me? May I offer you a(n) 9 ?Before we could say 10 , she continued, “Its really no 11 for me. Just get in.”It was then that I noticed her thick Irish 12 , which 13 me up like hot soup. We 14 said, “Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please,” as we got in her car for the ride.“Are you going for the baby?” she asked us.I nodded my head, holding back my 15 .At the hospital, we 16 her a dozen times for the ride. As the woman hugged me, I noticed her face was 17 with tears. She promised to pray for us before she left.After three more visits to New York and two more 18 surgeries (手术), Katie is cured. But the voice of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant 19 of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our 20 days.1、AsmilingBtinyCroundDbeautiful2、ArareBsimpleCnormalDnatural3、Apassers-byBjudgesClawyersDrunners4、AmoneyBconfidenceCtimeDcourage5、AraceBillnessCdoctorDchallenge6、AfixBcheckCreachDexplain7、AprotectBmeetCencourageDsave8、Apulled overBput upCturned downDstood by9、ArideBseatCcarDumbrella10、AnothingBanyoneCanythingDsomeone11、AdifferenceBquestionCtroubleDloss12、AappearanceBaccentCcustomDhair13、ApickedBcalledCwokeDwarmed14、AnormallyBsimplyCangrilyDregularly15、AtearsBangerCsmileDsurprise16、ArespectedBpraisedCthankedDaccepted17、AannoyedBdisappointedChappyDwet18、AeyeBbrainCkidneyDheart19、AwarningBeffortCreminderDexercise20、AbusiestBluckiestChappiestDdarkestSection 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 1Eighteen years ago, Terry Grahl, was pregnant with her fourth child. “Money was very tight.” Terry recalls. So when her mom called to ask if shed like to go shopping at the local fabric( 布料)store for the coming Christmas, she couldnt say no because she knew she badly needed some fabrics to make new clothes for her children. “1 remember walking around, gazing at all this beautiful fabric, wondering whether there is anything cheap that I could afford. And I could still get some money left to buy Christmas gifts for my family.”Well, Terrys mom must have known what Terry was thinking. Smiling kindly, she whispered to Terry, “You pick any fabrics you like. Its your Christmas gift from me.” Terrys eyes were filled with tears as the cart began to overflow with many fabrics, but not because Terry was planning on making herself a pretty dress or a pair of curtains for the kitchen. Rather, Terrys moms kindness had inspired some holiday gift ideas in Terry, and it didnt take long for Terry to figure out what she was going to do with all that fabric.“I was going to make my first quilt.” She explains. “Every night I would work on this queen-size quilt. With every stitch(一针), I thought about all that my mom had done for me over the course of my childhood, during which we were always battling homelessness, but Mom somehow managed to fill our lives with love and make everything okay.”On Christmas day, five days after her baby girl was born, Terry handed her mom a gift box. Inside was the quilt she had sewn, from the fabric her mother had given her as a gift.1、438What do we know about Terry eighteen years ago?ATerry made a living by making clothes.BTerry had a bad relationship with her mom.CTerry and her family lived a hard life at that time.DTerry often went shopping at the local fabric store.2、440Which of the following words best describes her mom?AStrict. BCriticalCFaithful. DGenerous.3、442What made Terry change her idea about Christmas gift?AThe value of the fabric. BThe responsibility for her family.CThe memory of her childhood. DThe end