南阳市方城县2023年考研英语一预测密卷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)One day when I was about nine years old, I ran into my mothers bedroom and opened the dresser(梳妆台). Then in the top drawer, was a small jewelry box. I was fascinated by its treasures. Then I saw there was something under the piece of red cloth. the cloth, I found a little white chip of china(瓷器). Why did my mother keep this thing? Shining slightly in the light, no answers. Some months later，I was setting the dinner table when my neighbour Marge knocked at the door. Coming in and the table, Marge said, Oh, you are expecting company. Ill another time. No, come on in.Mom replied .We are not anyone. But isnt that your good china? Marge asked. Id trust kids to handle my good dishes！ Mom laughed.Tonights my familys favorite meal. If you set your best table for a(n) 1 meal with guests, why not for your own ?A few broken plates are a small to pay for the joy we get using them Then she added . 2 every chip and crack has a story to tell. Mom went to the cupboard and took down a plate. She said, Seeing this on the edge here ? It happened when I was 17. Her voice , One day my brother invited a young man to dinner and sat him next to me. I was so that when I look the plate, it and knocked against the fork. As the young man was leaving, he a piece of broken china in my hand without saying a word.I couldnt forget about that plate with the chip. I went up to take out the little wooden jewelry box again. I examined the chip .The chip mother had saved with care belonged to the plate she broke on the day she met my father.1、Asilver Bgold Cwooden Dchina2、Ahidden Bdrawn Cremoved Dfixed3、ACovering BLowering CSpreading DLifting 4、Auseful Bbroken Cbeautiful Dvaluable 5、Afound Binvented Cselected Doffered 6、Awatching over Bglaring at Cglancing at Dsweeping up 7、Ago by Bpass by Cstand by Dstop by8、Aexpecting Binviting Cscolding Dcelebrating 9、Aalways Busually Csometimes Dnever 10、A family B relative C neighbour D ancestor 11、Avalue Battention Cprice Dvisit 12、Acommon Bspecial Cordinary Despecial 13、AHowever BBesides CThough DOtherwise 14、Abreak Bflower Ccolor Ddesign 15、A hardened Braised Csoftened Dsharpened16、Aexcited Bnervous Csurprised Dpleased17、Ajumped Bescaped Cleft Dslipped18、Alaid Bthrew Cexamined Dpicked19、Arequired Bremaining Cmissing Dreplaced20、Asecretly Bcarefully Cgratefully DproudlySection 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 1As trees across the northern areas turn gold and deep red, you can find autumn colors in parks and woodlands, in the cities, countryside, and mountains. People are wondering what these colors are for. For years, scientists have worked to understand the changes that happen to trees in the autumn. Up to now there have been different explanations for why natural selection makes autumn colors so widespread.Dr. Hamilton from Oxford University proposed that bright autumn leaves contained a message: they warn insects to leave them alone. In autumn, insects choose trees where they will lay eggs. When the larvae（幼虫）come out the next spring, they feed on the trees, often with a result of destruction of the trees. Dr. Hamilton suggested that trees could ward off these insects with poisons. They could have strong defenses by letting egg-laying insects know what was in store for their eggs.Dr. Hamilton and students turned the theory into a mathematical model, which showed that warning signals could indeed drive the evolution（进化）of bright leaves. It was a first attempt to see what was out there.A research team from the University of Wisconsin gave a quite different explanation. “If you are up here in Wisconsin, by the time leaves change, all the insects that feed on leaves are gone.” Dr. Hoch said. He believed that autumn colors served mainly as protection.According to Dr. Hoch and his team, autumn colors might be able to protect the leaves from sun damage or frost（冰冻）injuryin other words, they actually act as a sunscreen to avoid the destru