考研英语一保定市涿州市2023年预测试题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)In my professional life I am fortunate to have acquired some skills that I find I am able to use even though Ive retiredLast week while at church in the morning，I met a 1 that had just moved to our state. Unfortunately they were robbed shortly after their 2 and had the valuable belongings with all their 3 papers stolenA very kind person in the neighborhood had 4 them in，but the family had very little 5 ，no transportation，and no 6 to enroll(注册)their son in school without the paperworkEnrolling that little boy in school 7 to be the highest priority for the family. But the school district was playing hardball with them with no 8 for themThey had gone to the library to 9 how to replace this paperwork，but they found they could not 10 the fees to replace the items quicklyBecause of my background as a(n) 11 administrator and my computer skills，I was able to research for them online how to 12 the needed documents at low cost with only a slight delayI was able to speak with them 13 and positively about the process and explain that waiting the few 14 days would make very little 15 in getting their little guy enrolled and attending school againThey told me they 16 my taking the time to sit down with them and help them see the“forest for the trees”，for they had felt 17 with what initially had seemed the impossibility of their situationTaking the time to 18 my skills and “be present with them had truly helped them regain some of the 19 they had come to our city with when they moved 20 a better 1ife1、AbeggarBboyCfamilyDdriver2、AarrivalBreturnCflightDchange3、AcriminalBimportantCbeneficialDexpensive4、AforcedBhiddenCshownDtaken5、AmoneyBenergyCpositionDcourage6、APlanBaimCwayDidea7、AhappenedBseemedCintendedDpreferred8、ApatienceBdirectionCconfidenceDsympathy9、ApracticeBresearchCsuggestDrealize10、AaffordBsupportCmanageDdesire11、ApoliticsBeducationCcultureDhistory12、AinventBprotectCdesignDreplace13、AcoldlyBshylyCcalmlyDwildly14、AexactBproperCextraDfinal15、AsenseBdifferenceCroomDuse16、AdislikedBconsideredCinsistedDappreciated17、AsurprisedBdepressedCexcitedDamused18、AuseBpassCtakeDget19、AspiritBtaskChopeDsense20、Aputting inBmakingCtaking upDlooking forSection 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 1I am astonished at the way God knows when to send a special gift of encouragement at just the right time! It might be in a dream, a lost letter, a memory, or something found that wed forgotten about.My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. And summer after summer I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town where they lived. People knew everyone, their children, their pets, their ancestors.Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting She would make sandwiches and wed have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them. She loved knitting sweaters as well as making beautiful quiltsfor her grandchildren. I remember the small thimble ( 顶 针 ) she would place on her finger while doing her needlework.A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. Shed never forgotten my birthday!On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened and made me feel as if she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow；it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam (缝) that I carefully opened, and, to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing h into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff (抖松), to place on my bedspread (床罩) that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others Id collected over the years. What a precious memory of a very special lady who, somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble into my pillow. I heated the kettle and made some tea, using my best china, as Grandma always did, and then enjoyed my tea and Grandmas thimble. What a wonderful birthday th