考研英语一湛江市徐闻县2023年全真模拟试题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) My brother Gene was four years older than me. By the time I turned four, I was upset that he could read but I couldnt. I burned with 1 to read a book like my brother. I begged: “Teach me to read, Mom! Please, please?!” Finally, Mom set aside time after lunch 2 reading lessons, and soon after my fifth birthday, I was reading.I longed for my father, who was a great storyteller, to read me the books that I couldnt yet read on my own. But my father worked three jobs to feed the family. He didnt have the time or 3 in the evening to read to me. 4 , every Sunday morning, my brother and I lay next to him in bed, waiting for him to tell stories about his 5 . I can still hear my fathers voice 6 the cold winters on the family farm in Poland. His family didnt have enough money to burn wood in the fireplace all night. He told us that he always volunteered to help with 7 . I can smell the soup made by my grandma and 8 my father cutting onions, carrots and tomatoes for salad, and when no one was looking, putting a piece into his mouth. “I was always 9 ,” he explained. Hearing my fathers stories 10 me closer to the books and the stories they held.One Saturday afternoon when I was seven, we walked two blocks to the small 11 in our neighborhood, and my dad filled out forms for a card. That Saturday 12 my life: I met Mrs. Schwartz, the librarian, and my dad said, “Youre 13 enough to walk to the library yourself.” And so I didalmost every afternoon.In my mind, Mrs. Schwartz was “the keeper of books and the guardian of stories.” Some days she read aloud to a small group of us 14 . Most of time, Mrs. Schwartz let me 15 myself with books I pulled from the shelves and look through them to see which ones Id 16 out. I remember that sometimes shed 17 a book and tell me a part of the story. But she always let me choose. Books became my 18 who were my comfort when I felt lonely.Yes, reading changed me. It gave me the 19 to study hard so I could become a teacher, and share my 20 of reading with my students. And inside my head, I can still hear the voices of my mother, father, and Mrs. Schwartz, which are with me every time I open the first page of a new book.1、AangerBworryCdesireDinterest2、AforBbeforeCinDuntil3、AabilityBambitionCcourageDenergy4、AStillBThenCThereforeDFinally5、AworkplaceBchildhoodCfarmlandDneighborhood6、AexplainingBdescribingCintroducingDinterpreting7、AlivingBreadingCfarmingDcooking8、AcatchBdiscoverCnoticeDpicture9、AbusyBpoorChungryDtired10、AlaidBdrewCtaughtDleft11、AlibraryBbookstoreCofficeDclub12、AsavedBchangedCtestedDanything13、AnearBreadyColdDfree14、AgraduatesBregularsCcandidatesDcommunicators15、AsurroundBfamiliarizeCexamineDreward16、AfindBlendCcheckDsign17、AwriteBrecommendCstudyDreserve18、AteachersBassistantsClistenersDcompanions19、AdriveBdreamCorderDchance20、AlessonBtimeCloveDplanSection 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 1A typical school day in the UK starts around 8:30 am. This is often even earlier elsewhere in the world, with students sitting down to their first lesson at 7:30 am in the US. The average teenager ideally needs eight to nine hours sleep each night, but in reality a lot of teenagers struggle to get this much. A lot of the problems arise because our sleep patterns are not fixed, and they change as we grow.So a later school start time could help to solve this problem, by ensuring to get their eight plus hours of sleep and react properly to their bodys natural rhythms (规律). There has been a general shift over the past 25 years to shorten the school day. This is not at the cost of teaching time (which has remained constant) but at the cost of natural breaks, which has led to reduced lunch time and lesson breaks.Later start times could help teens grades and health. This is mainly because it makes the management of children easier. Supervising (监管) hundreds of children “playing” requires effective staffing (人员配备). And there is always the fear that behavior worsens during breaks. So the theory goes that having them in class and strictly supervised must be better.But this means that students barely have enough time to absorb what they were doing in maths before suddenly they are thrust into ancient history. And teaching staff also transit from one class to another, with hardly a rest or time to refocus.Clearly rethinking the