考研英语一金华市兰溪市2023年临考冲刺试卷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) In the summer before I entered middle school, I read the book They Cage the Animals at Night. Its a story about Jennings, a boy living in various orphanages（孤儿院）with only his stuffed animal（毛绒玩具）, Doggie, for companionship. Its a fascinating book, but little did I know how it would 1 my life and the lives of others.One day, as I looked across my room at the pile of stuffed animals, a(n) 2 came to me. I would 3 stuffed animals for children like Jennings. 4 , I contacted agencies that support those children and they said the stuffed animals would certainly 5 childrens spirits.I named my project “Cuddle Buddies”. I wrote articles for the local and school newspapers, 6 donations of the “buddies” stuffed animals. My phone 7 ringing; schools, families, and toy factories all wanted to help. Much to my 8 , by the second week my living room looked like a zoo. Whenever Mom and I 9 the “buddies” to the agencies, the kids would be waiting there with their eyes down, too 10 to look but shaking with excitement.Six years after its launch, Cuddle Buddies continues to 11 . Now over 25,000 stuffed animals have been 12 to agencies worldwide. Simon, a seven-year-old boy in an African Childrens Home, couldnt sleep at night after he lost his parents. When asked to choose his “buddies”, Simon 13 a panda and soon after was sleeping through the night. I never dreamed Cuddle Buddies would 14 this way.Upon graduating from high school, I designed a website, , to 15 the project. The response was 16 . More and more people joined me and two dozen Cuddle Buddies 17 were established across the nation.This has been a great experience. Ive learned how to follow through on an idea and how to 18 impact a life. I will go to college with these 19 in mind and continue my work with Cuddle Buddies, even when I 20 a whole new set of exciting academic and nonacademic pursuits.1、AtouchBriskCleadDsave2、AchanceBideaCexplanationDword3、AdisplayBrepairCpurchaseDcollect4、APreviouslyBOccasionallyCImmediatelyDGradually5、AcaptureBreflectCliftDrecord6、Aputting asideBturning downCasking forDgetting back7、AdelayedBkeptCstoppedDmeant8、AknowledgeBtasteCregretDdelight9、AdeliveredBappliedCrentedDreturned10、AshyBcontentCweakDeager11、AreformBexpandCdominateDdivide12、AproducedBadoptedCsoldDdonated13、Apicked outBcame acrossCshowed offDbrought up14、AdeclineBworkCincreaseDreact15、ApromoteBstartCevaluateDexamine16、AconfusingBamusingCautomaticDenthusiastic17、AcompaniesBcommitteesCbranchesDinstitutes18、AfinanciallyBpositivelyCsociallyDphysically19、AplansBimagesClessonsDmotives20、Awork outBkeep offCrely onDengage inSection 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 Flowers make people happy. And while that might seem obvious, there hasnt been much research to prove the point until now.Some new studies by Rutgers University scientists support the idea strongly, and the experts go on to assume that flowers have flourished on this planet, with their beauty evolving in recent thousands of years, partly because humans are so attached to them.In a test, bunches of flowers were sent by florists to 113 men and women in a retirement community. All 113 got flowers and a notebook, but some got them earlier and received a second bunch when the others got theirs. By now you can guess the outcome. The more flowers, the more smiles.The results of the studies got the scientists to thinking about how the flower industry of today has evolved into growing things that serve no other purpose than emotional (情感上的) satisfaction. Nature wont even pollinate (授粉) many of the domesticated flowers. Just among roses, there are so many types created by humans that, clearly, flowers arent what they used to be. But its likely our collective hand has played a role longer than you might think.Geneticist (遗传学家) Terry McGuire suggests that natures prettier flowers got to survive and develop well because people didnt destroy them when they cleared for agriculture. Instead, they grew them and have been doing so for over 5,000 years. “Because theyre a source of pleasure, we take care of them. In that sense theyre like dogs. They are the pets of the plant world.” McGuire says.Here is one way that might have worked:Many species of flowers that are now planted used to gro