考研英语一朔州市怀仁县2023年模拟试题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)My mother has spent the past 9 years working with Special Olympics. But her 1 of love, compassion and patience started 20 years ago when my younger sister, Natalie, was 2 . You see, my sister is mentally delayed and has always required 3 help; help that my mother never 4 to give. My mother decided 5 after my sister was born that she would do whatever she could to give my sister as close to a(n) 6 life as possible. So Natalies 7 was not going to stop her from living her life to the fullest. In the 20 years since my sister was born Ive 8 my mom fight for my sisters rights, and the rights of those like her, in the schools and community.When our family moved to Washington State in 2000, my mother got a job 9 a para-educator at one of the local middle schools. My mother has always said that is when her eyes were 10 opened to all the different things that were 11 to people with special needs.It was November 2001 that my family was 12 forever. That is when my sister 13 Special Olympics. At first we would just go and watch my sister, 14 we quickly started to get more 15 . My mother and I started to 16 , and my dad was the driver. We were 17 involved in basketball, soccer, and softball.When my family moved to Idaho State in August of 2012, we were sad to 18 that our small town didnt have Special Olympics teams. So what did my mother do? She took it upon herself to 19 teams in our small town. Now five years later my family is still in full Special Olympics 20 . My mother is not only my hero, but the hero of the over 30 Special Olympics athletes in Rigby, ID1、Aquality Bvalue Chope Dstory2、Ahurt Blost Cborn Draised3、Asmall Bextra Ckind Dmental4、Ahesitated Bneeded Cdecided Dliked5、Alater Bunwillingly Cquickly Dnervously6、Ainteresting Bspecial Cnormal Dwhole7、Aenthusiasm Bdisability Ccourage Dstrength8、Awatched Bhelped Cheard Dfelt9、Afor Bwith Cto Das10、Anever Bhardly Ctruly Dsometimes11、Adangerous Bavailable Cdifficult Dstrange12、Achanged Bastonished Ccompleted Dsettled13、Aleft Bvisited Chated Djoined14、Aand Bso Cbut Dsince15、Adisappointed Binvolved Cmoved Dfascinated16、Acoach Bspeak Cprepare Dact17、Aslowly Banxiously Cgradually Dactively18、Alet out Bwork out Cfind out Dmake out19、Abreak up Bstart up Csend out Dgive up20、Amode Bgames Cthought DstatesSection 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 Language learning apps are very popular now and offer opportunities to learn vocabulary and practice grammar. But there has been a discussion about just how effective such apps can be.Among the most popular apps are Duolingo and Busuu. A previous research found positive results on the use of them. But it mainly concentrated on studies with learners who had signed up to language courses and these apps worked as an after-class support, so the results were not always reliable. A recent study of 4,095 Busuu users has been carried out aimed to find out if users can actually learn a language with an app.Busuu provides learning materials for 12 different languages. It offers special model where some content is available for free while some content is not. We find that its users are an even mix of men and women. More than half consider themselves to be at the beginner level as there is a decrease in users as their language levels go up. Most people use the app because of personal interest, or because they want to study or live abroad. Female users tend to use it less often but for longer periods of time than male users.Getting any feedback on Busuu depends on whether your answer is correct or not. While it is helpful, this is not the sort of feedback language teachers prefer, as it does not explain why the answer is right or wrong. In spite of this, feedback in the app is very highly rated.More than 92% of respondents state that the app has met their expectations and 86% rate the app as very good or good. In fact, more than 80% of the users surveyed strongly agree that using the app has helped them improve their knowledge of the language they are learning.Besides, language learning apps also create an environment where mistakes are only known to the users, and this can address the performance anxiety that many learners suffer from when asked to spea