考研英语一连云港市东海县2023年最后冲刺试题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)Love Is Blind: The Magic of TabbyIn October, 2003 I started my work at my local animal shelters Adoption Department. Over the years, more than 50,000 animals have 1 the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are 2 animals, who touch me so deeply that I could never possibly 3 them. Tabby was one such animal. Tabby was an ancient Cocker Spaniel, probably 14 years old. Whats more, she was blind and deaf. Tabbys chances at adoption seemed 4 at best. After all, we didnt have many adopters coming in 5 , “Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also 6 ?” We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the 7 .One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had 8 Tabbys picture and stories on the shelters website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only 9 we ever received about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-old dog who was both blind and deaf? Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and 10 through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would 11 be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby! If Tabbys story had simply ended with her 12 adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed. 13 , it was what happened after her adoption that people might regard as “magic”. Gary 14 from seizures(癫痫). Since Gary and Tabby met they became 15 . They did everything together. They became so “in tune” with one another that Tabby began to telegraph Garys seizures 16 they occurred, giving his family 17 that one was about to strike. Whats more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabbys 18 .How could it be? Nobody could explain 19 Tabby did it. But those of us who were fortunate enough to know her and her family had 20 the magic, the kind that has its roots in love.1、Abroken Bpassed Cpainted Dlocked2、Astrange Bactive Cwild Dspecial3、Arecall Bleave Cforget Dabandon4、Aremote Bgreat Cfair Dpotential5、Awondering Bstating Cseeking Dasking6、Astubborn Bactive Cdisabled Dpatient7、Ahospital Bshelter Cfarm Droadside8、Aposted Btaken Cseen Ddrawn9、Aletter Bdonation Ccall Denquiry10、Aget Brun Clook Dbreak11、Aoften Bpossibly Cnever Dgenerally12、Asuccessful Bnormal Ctemporary Dearly13、AHowever BMoreover CTherefore DOtherwise14、Alearnt Bsuffered Cheard Ddiffered15、Aindifferent Buncomfortable Cunfortunate Dinseparable16、Asince Bunless Cbefore Dthough17、Aexplanation Bnotice Csuggestion Dwarning18、Aarrival Bbirth . Creturn Drecovery19、Awhere Bhow Cwhen Dwhether20、Awitnessed Bcreated Cachieved DperformedSection 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 1Moby Dick,or The Whale,of which only 5 copies were sold in the year of its first publication,has been recognized as one of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century novels across the world.Yet its author,Herman Melville,was not blessed enough to change his fate as the great work did.Herman was born into an upper class New York family in 1819,but he had to drop out of school at the age of 15due to bankruptcy （破产）of the family.He struggled for living by working as a clerk at a bank,a farmer and a primary school teacher,but did not manage to hold on quite long to any of the jobs.And in 1841,he turned himself a whaling sailor on a big whaler.In the next three years,his sailors life was torn apart by betrayal,injury,living with anthropophagi（食人族）， love,killing,imprisonment,prison break,which did not bear the expected fruit of fortune or being a captain.At the age of 25 ,Herman returned to America,starting his writing career.During the following five years,he published five novels,among which was Moby Dick,but none of the works brought him any fame or sense of success.He had to live up with his poor life,supported by regular financial help from his father in-law.Not much changed even after his father-in-law assisted him onto a post at the customhouse(海关).His self-doubt whether he should fight to write as an author disturbed Herman for the rest of his life till his death in 1899,which is suggested in his wifes diary.And his wife described his several