考研英语一四川省乐山市金口河区2023年押题密卷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)Dont Be Afraid to Make a Fool of Yourself and Reach out to StrangersGrowing up, I was glued to my mothers hip, ready to follow her wherever the world took us. I used to sleep at her 1 on the floor of her law school lecture halls while hundreds of 2 poured over scores of legal terms and historical court 3 . When my mother and I would travel to different countries together, she always talked to 4 . She would tell our life story and I was often 5 . I figured that people thought she shared too much and it was 6 .I now recognize the importance of the 7 my mother made. After she died, I received hundreds of phone calls from people all over the world. They 8 to offer their condolences (吊唁), but 9 to share how much my mother had meant to them. 10 she offered legal advice or simply shared a story, they 11 their heart to me about how she 12 their lives.When she first decided to buy an apartment and settled down in Paris, she 13 the writers of her favourite blogs and instantly began to form their own French 14 . They spent hours eating carefully selected cheeses and sipping (啜饮) coffee while 15 favorite Parisian restaurants. These are the people I now call my 16 aunts and uncles. What I judged as my mom making a 17 of herself was her way of sharing her 18 and charm. This taught me to 19 into fear and not to let self-criticism govern anything I do. Now, I speak up. I talk to strangers. I 20 myself and because of it, I receive.1、Atops Barms Celbows Dfeet2、Ateachers Bstudents Caudience Dviews3、Aaccidents Bevents Ccases Dstories4、Aforeigners Bstrangers Cneighbors Dlearners5、Aembarrassed Bexcited Cdisappointed Dsurprised6、Afortunate Binappropriate Cproper Dreasonable7、Aconnection Binventions Cdecision Dpossessions8、Awrote Bplanned Ccalled Dattempted9、Apurposely Busually Cmainly Daccordingly10、AWhenever BWherever CHowever DWhether11、Aturned out Bpoured out Cfigured out Dfound out12、Amade Bsaved Cearned Dchanged13、Acontacted Bbecame Cnamed Dinvestigated14、Acommunity Bclass Crestaurant Dorganization15、Aentering Bsearching Cexploring Ddiscussing16、AAmerican BEnglish CFrench DBritish17、Ashow Bfool Cgoal Ddream18、Aweakness Bshortcomings Cstrength Ddisadvantages19、Aback off Blive up Cget down Dstep forward20、Aextend Bunderstand Ctrust DshareSection 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 1Cigarette butts (烟蒂) are everywhere - clogging up our streets, littering our beaches - and for decades theyve been thought of as “unrecyclable”. But a New Jersey-based company, called TerraCycle, has taken on the challenge, and has come up with a way to recycle millions of cigarette butts and turn them into industrial plastic products. Its aim is to take items that people normally consider impossible to recycle, and then use science to figure out a way to do just that.Despite the increase in anti-smoking ads and messaging over the past 20 years, global sales of cigarettes increased by 4 percent, and a whole lot of those cigarette butts are ending up as trash, which can surely pollute the surrounding environment.So how do you go about turning all those poisonous ends into something useful? TerraCycle does this by first breaking them down into separate parts. They mix the remaining materials, such as the tobacco and the paper, with other kinds of rubbish, and use it on non-agricultural land, such as golf courses. The filters (过滤嘴) are a little harder. To recycle these, TerraCycle first makes them clean and cuts them into small pieces, and then combines them with other recycled materials, making them into liquid for industrial plastic products.They now have more than 3,000 cigarette recycling bins in nine countries around the world. Theyre also expanding their recycling offerings to the rest of the 40 percent of household waste that currently cant be recycled, such as chocolate packaging, pens, and mobile phones. The goal is to use the latest research to find a way to stop so much waste ending up in. landfill (垃圾填埋), and then get companies to fund the process. And so far, its working.“We havent found anything that we cant recycle,” communications director of Terra Cycle, Albe Zakes, said. “But with the amount and variety of packaging and litter in the wor