菏泽市鄄城县2023年考研英语一押题密卷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)Just before Christmas, my daughter Katie and I went over to my dad s place to decorate. While we worked on the tree, grand babies Decie and Johnny 1 their great-grandfather Papa Cox. Their laughter and 2 arguments must have reminded Papa of the past days when my brother and I were just their 3 because I saw a twinkle in his 80-year-old eyes.Hanging the 4 decorations on Papas tree, I couldnt help gently touching the very oldest of the glass balls. Those I made sure to 5 from the uppermost branches, safely out of reach of tiny hands. When the tree was beautifully dressed and glowing, we bid my dad goodbye with lots of hugs and kisses and 6 for home. Later that night, in the quiet darkness, I pulled my 7 up close and lay down to rest and remember.The Christmas I turned 16, while decorating the tree with Mama, I 8 dropped and broke a decoration. The old glass ball was blue and its surface began to fall 9 ; it had been on our tree for as long as I could remember. 10 , I bent to pick up the broken pieces and was surprised to find a tiny sheet of paper among the pieces. Unfolding it, I recognized my fathers penciled writing. Lifting my eyes, I saw my mothers 11 expression.“Your daddy wrote that and 12 it in that blue ball during our first Christmas together, just before you were born,” she said with a smile. I wouldnt have believed it, 13 the proof there in my hands. The daddy I knew always looked upon getting the tree decorated as a chore he wanted 14 part in. In fact, sometimes he could be a bit of a lazy and mean man around the holidays! And yet this bit of 15 paper proved that long ago my daddy had done something apparently romantic at Christmas.Carefully laying the note aside, I cleaned up the broken pieces, wishing I couldsomehow 16 the pieces. “ Its OK , ” Mama said , encouraging me with a hug. “Just pick out another of the 17 ones and folded the note back inside.” 18 , as we celebrate the holidays without Mama, who we lost to cancer, my 19 becomes more bitter. Each year as I decorate Papas tree, I relive the moment I shared with her that winter afternoon and tears of a sadness welled out.As I carefully handle those old decorations , I love knowing that one holds a 20 betweenPapa and Mamaone that was obvious to all who knew them. The note inside one of those old glass balls on Papas tree holds he heart of my parents marriage in three little words: “I love you.”.1、Aamazed Bconfused Cchallenged Dentertained2、Aoccasional Bregular Cinstant Drare3、Aheight Bweight Csize Dshape4、Afamiliar Bexpensive Cnormal Dnewest5、Ahold Bsuspend Cpick Dremove6、Areturned Bheaded Cdrove Dran7、Amemories Brecords Cimages Dfancies8、Adeliberately Bridiculously Cclumsily Dgenerously9、Aoff Bdown Caway Dover10、AObviously BGuiltily CResponsibly DAmazingly11、Aadmirable Bshameful Cfond Dreasonable12、Athrew Bstuck Cseized Ddropped13、Aas for Bregardless of Cexcept for Dinstead of14、Amost Btotal Cbest Dleast15、Ayellowed Bblackened Cblued Dred d en ed16、Areorganize Breunite Crestart Drestore17、Anew Bold Csmall Dbig18、AMeanwhile BStill CThough DNow19、Adecision Bregret Cdiscovery Dsympathy20、Aappointment Bpromise Cpermission DsecretSection 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 If you want to be productive， you must complete work Almost everything we do has many stages to completion and in many situations， you dont actually create value until you finish the last stage Farmers cant sell their grain until it is harvested Automakers cant sell cars that have made it 90% of the way through the assembly line（生产线） Most employers arent going to pay you for having a degree unless you finished the last class and graduatedNow all those things require starting， but if you have work in progress， the most valuable thing you can do is to pick something and finish it Finishing is where you start benefiting from the value youve created Ive noticed that many successful people arent the ones who are the smartest or have the best ideas They are often the ones who do the best job of taking an idea and completing it A good idea fully carried out is better than a great idea that never gets completedDoes this mean you need to finish everything you start？ Not necessarily， but if yo