考研英语一2023年山西省运城市新绛县考前冲刺预测试卷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) Where do you go when you want to learn something？School？A friend？A tutor？These are all 1 places of learning.But it may well be that the learning you really want 2 somewhere else instead.I had the 3 of seeing this first hand on a 4 My daughter plays on a recreational soccer team.They did very well this season and so 5 a tournament，which normally was only for more skilled club teams.This led to some 6 experiences on Saturday as they played against teams 7 trained.Through the first two games，her 8 did not get one serious shot on goal.As a parent，I 9 seeing my daughter playing her best， 10 still defeated.It seemed that something clicked with the 11 between Saturday and Sunday.When they 12 for their Sunday game，they were 13 different.They had begun to integrate (融合) the kinds of play and teamwork they had 14 the day before into their 15 They played aggressively and 16 scored a goal.It 17 me that playing against the other team was a great 18 moment for all the girls on the team.I think it is a general principle. 19 is the best teacher.The lessons they learned may not be 20 what they would have gotten in school，but are certainly more personal and meaningful，because they had to work them out on their own.1、ApublicBtraditionalCofficialDspecial2、ApassesBworksCliesDends3、AdreamBideaChabitDchance4、AtripBholidayCweekendDsquare5、AwonBenteredCorganizedDwatched6、ApainfulBstrangeCcommonDpractical7、AlessBpoorlyCnewlyDbetter8、AfansBtutorsCclassDteam9、AimaginedBhatedCavoidedDmissed10、AifBorCbutDas11、AgirlsBparentsCcoachesDviewers12、AdressedBshowed upCmade upDplanned13、AslightlyBhardlyCbasicallyDcompletely14、AseenBknownCheardDread15、AstylesBtrainingCgameDrules16、AevenBstillCseldomDagain17、AconfusedBstruckCremindedDwarned18、AtouchingBthinkingCencouragingDlearning19、AExperienceBIndependenceCCuriosityDInterest20、Aharmful toBmixed withCdifferent fromDapplied toSection 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 bite from a tsetse fly (采采蝇) is an extremely unpleasant experience. It is not like a mosquito, which can put its thin mouthpart directly into your blood, often without you noticing. In contrast, the tsetse flys mouth has tiny saws on it that saw into your skin on its way to suck out your blood.To make matters worse, several species of tsetse fly can transmit diseases. One of the most dangerous is a parasite that causes sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasisto give it its official name. Without treatment, an infection is usually fatal.Like so many tropical diseases, sleeping sickness has often been neglected by medical researchers. However, researchers have long endeavored to understand how it avoids our bodies defence mechanisms. Some of their insights could now help us eliminate sleeping sickness altogether.There are two closely-related single-celled parasites that cause this deathly sleep: Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense. The latter is far more common: it is responsible for up to 95% of cases, mostly in western Africa. It takes several years to kill a person, while T. brucei rhodesiense can cause death within months. There are still other forms that infect livestock.After the initial bite, sleeping sickness symptoms often start with a fever, headaches and aching muscles. As the illness goes on, those infected become increasingly tired, which is where it gets its name. Personality changes, severe confusion and poor coordination can also happen.While medication does help, some treatments are toxic and can themselves be deadly, especially if they are given after the disease has reached the brain.It is worth noting that sleeping sickness is no longer as deadly as it once was. In the early 20th Century several hundred thousand people were infected each year. By the 1960s the disease was considered under control and had reached very low numbers, making its spread more difficult. But in the 1970s there was another major epidemic, which took 20 years to control.Since then, better screening programmes and earlier interventions have reduced the number of cases dramatically. In 2009 there were fewer than 10,000 cases for the first time since records began, and in 2015 this figure dropped to fewer than 3,000, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organisation. The WHO hopes the disease will be completely elim