考研英语一2023年广西壮族百色市平果县预测试卷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)Isnt it amazing how you never have to water your weeds or nurture (培育) them and they still give you an unwanted crop?I can remember as a young boy my grandfather showed me how to 1 this annoying weed called Bermuda grass. It was 2 stuff and it would really 3 if you didnt get it out by the 4 .When my wife and I bought our first home about 8 years ago, what I had to deal with this is this certain part weeds 5 to the Bermuda grass, which would also spread wildly.After getting the inside of our home 6 , it was time to work on the outside. On my hands and knees I 7 attacked the weeds with a small hand spade getting each one 8 by the roots.Just this Spring I realized that one particular weed was no longer 9 but another one was in full 10 . So again, I got down on my hands and knees and got to work 11 them from my yard. When I was 12 , my yard was better off.Sometimes our life can be so similar. We all have weeds in our life. These weeds can be challenges, setbacks, or 13 beliefs, and the list can be 14 .When dealing with these weeds of 15 , the 16 is to get to the root of them and remove them one by one out and eventually you will 17 this round. And when another crop of weeds 18 , deal with them directly 19 they spread, because now that you know what to do with them by getting to the root of it, it will give you more courage and 20 the next time a problem arises up.1、Aeat up Bdig up Cbreak up Dput up2、Apowerful Bpoisonous Csensitive Dterrible3、Aspread Bsucceed Cwithdraw Dcompromise4、Aleaves Bhands Cspades Droots5、Aattractive Bsimilar Cfundamental Dunknown6、Acounted Bmended Cappreciated Dsettled7、Aenergetically Bunsuccessfully Ccuriously Dthankfully8、Ainside Bout Coff Dacross9、Auseful Bdynamic Cdifferent Dcommon10、Aforce Blength Cdetail Dvain11、Acollecting Battending Cridding Ddistinguishing12、Aworn-out Baccustomed Cfinished Dintroduced13、Afamiliar Breligious Cpast Dnegative14、Areasonable Bendless Cnormal Duncertain15、Alife Bschool Chouse Dfactory16、Aprogress Bsolution Cdisadvantage Dpermission17、Ainterrupt Bmemorize Cconquer Drecognize18、Ashows up Bshows off Ctakes up Dtakes19、Aunless Beven if Cbefore Dso that20、Aimpression Bmotivation Cwisdom DsatisfactionSection 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 Hawking was perhaps the most famous scientist in the world when he died in 2018 at age 76.His 1988 book，A Brief History of Time，sold ten million copies and made him an unlikely superstar even to people who sweated through high school science.Humor was always a big part of Hawkings effort to bring physics to the masses.In his 2010 book，The Grand Design，for instance，he recounts how，in 1277，the Catholic Church declared scientific laws such as gravity to be wrong，since they seemed against Gods idea.“Interestingly，”the text adds jokingly，“Pope John was killed by the effects of the law of gravity a few months later when the roof of his palace fell in on him.”Hawking was only 21 when he was diagnosed with the disease ALS.For most people，the condition would have been a disaster.But Hawking rolled over hardship as if it were just a pebble under his wheelchair.“Life would be tragic，”he once said，“if it werent funny.”He kept smiling even though he spent more than 50 years in a wheelchair.“He loved adventure and fun，”says Mlodinow，who once took Hawking on a punt-boat trip down the fiver Cam in Cambridge，England，despite the obvious danger of the boat turning over.“You know about when he went on the Vomit Comet? Its a plane that flies in a parabolic(抛物线的)path so you are weightless，like you are in space.A lot of people vomit，but he loved that sort of thing.”And he was 65 at the time.Hawkings greatest hit，humor-wise，was probably the cocktail party he threw in 2009.It was a“welcome reception for future time travelers，”he said，so naturally，he sent out the invitations the day after the party.No one showed up yet.“Maybe one day someone living in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party，proving that time travel will one day be possible，”Hawking explained.And if that happens，dont be surprised if Hawking is there too.After all，he never missed a chance to have fun.1、What does the text main