2023年海南省三亚市琼中黎族苗族自治县考研英语一高分冲刺试题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) “Now,” Mrs. Virginia DeView said, smiling, “we are going to discover our professions.” The class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be . “Yes, you will all be searching for your future . Each of you will have to someone in your field, plus give an oral report.”Each day in her class, Virginia DeView reminded us about this. Finally, I picked print journalism. This I had to go to interview a true-blue newspaper reporter. I was extremely nervous. I sat down in front of him able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”I shook my head.“How about some ?”I shook my head again.Finally, I thought he realized I was , and I got my first big tip as a . “Never, never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what youll run into.” After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from memory in class. I got an A on the entire project. Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career, but with no success. Then I Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didnt me. They just reminded me how competitive the field was and all my life I had run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me: it was in my blood. It gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was . For the past 12 years, Ive had the most satisfying reporting career, stories from murders to airplane crashes and choosing my strongest area. When I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible wave of memories hit me and I realized that had it not been for Virginia DeView, I would not be sitting at that desk.I was all the time: “How did you pick journalism?”“Well, you see, there was this teacher ” I always start out. I just wish I could thank her.1、AgoodBmad Ccareless Dcurious2、AuniversitiesBfamilies Cprofessions Dlives3、AinterviewBplease Cadmire Drespect4、AexpressedBordered Cexpected Dmeant5、AhardlyBnearly Cnaturally Deagerly6、AdrinkBnewspapers Cpreparations Dpaper7、AsatisfiedBcomfortable Cterrified Dsorry8、Astudent Bjournalist Cteacher Dwriter9、Acalled Brecognized Cremembered Dvisited10、Aanswer Bpromise Cstop Dpersuade11、Ahow Bwhether Cwhy Dwhen12、Abreaking in Bgetting down Cfalling off Dgoing on13、Amaking Bretelling Ccovering Dwriting14、AcertainlyBfinally Cdoubtfully Dcompletely15、AhurtBexcited Cdisappointed DaskedSection 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 1One evening last summer, when I asked my 17-year-old son, Ray, for help with dinner, his response surprised me, “Whats a colander（漏勺）?” he asked.I could only blame myself. Nobodys hands went in the sauce except my own. But that night, as I explained with a touch of panic that a colander is the thing with holes in it, I wondered what else I hadnt prepared Ray for. I felt confident that Id raised a self-reliant boy, as we all try to do. But could he boil water? Sew on a button? Wash his clothes without turning them pink? No, no and no. Suddenly it hit me: Hed be leaving the house in a year to attend college. No way was I going to set a spoiled prince into the world.As parents, while we focus on our childs confidence and character, we perhaps dont always consider that we are also raising someones future roommate, boyfriend, husband, or father. I wanted to know that Id raised a boy who would never ask the woman in his life, “Whats for dinner?” So I came up with a plan: I would offer Ray a private home economics course. I was delighted to find that he didnt say no.For two hours, three days a week, Ray was all mine. One day, as his tomato sauce reduced on the stove, he washed and seasoned a chicken for toasting. Then he rolled out the piecrust（馅饼皮）and filled it with apples, all while listening to my explanation on the importance of preheating an oven.Three of my four grandparents were tailors, so Ray was genetically programmed to quickly master the basics, like mending a split seam or refastening a button. One day we covered Advanced Laundry, in which I taught him never to mix a red sweatshirt with white shirts or put sweaters in the dryer. I knew that he would rather have been shooting hoops in the driveway than learning to mend socks with his mother - he tried to beg off sewing lessons, even though I insisted