考研英语一湖南省衡阳市蒸湘区2023年考前冲刺试卷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)Thank You, Mr.FlagmanLong line of rush hour traffic wound its way down the rain-slick street. Obviously, I would be late for 1 up the children, and the babysitter would be unhappy. Nothing had gone 2 all daymy car broke down on my way to work this morning; the secretarys 3 threw the whole office out of order. And this traffic jam seemed the perfect ending to this 4 day.All I wanted was to get home and took a hot shower, 5 some peace and quiet. But I knew the endless 6 was waiting for me: supper to be done, messy room to be cleaned, clothes to be washed.I sighed loudly, though there was no one to 7 . Surely there was more to living than this. I guess I was simply too busy and too 8 to look for it.And then I saw him.The lone flagman was standing in the middle of the street, hardly 9 but for his bright orange vest, 10 directing four lanes of traffic merge into one. But there was something 11 about this flagman, and as my car approached, I realized what it was.Standing among dozens of impatient motorists 12 every icy mud splashed on him, he was 13 . And at every driver that passed, he not only smiled, he waved. As I sat waiting my turn in my warm, dry car, I began to feel 14 . If this man, who did nothing all day 15 watch one car after another go by, could stand in the cold rain hour after boring hour and still have a friendly 16 for every single person who passed, what right did I have to 17 about my life?It was finally my turn to 18 the flagman. Thank you, I mouthed through the window. He smiled and nodded and I drove on, spirits lifted, 19 changed.And in the rear-view mirror I could see him, raising his hand in 20 to every car that passed.1、Ataking Bmaking Cpicking Dputting2、Abad Bright Cwrong Dmad3、Aabsence Bpromise Cpractice Dpresence4、Acomfortable Bsuitable Cwonderful Dhorrible5、Aenjoying Bcarrying Cusing Dexperiencing6、Aexcitement Bhomework Ctrouble Dhousework7、Ahear Bsee Cblame Dfeel8、Adelighted Btired Cbored Dthrilled9、Aincredible Baccessible Cvisible Davailable10、Aquickly Bpatiently Ceagerly Dcasually11、Aunreasonable Bunusual Cunbelievable Dunpleasant12、Afrom Boff Cwith Dfor13、Ashouting Bstanding Ccrying Dsmiling14、Aashamed Bannoyed Cproud Dsatisfied15、Aso Band Cbut Dor16、Agesture Bpromise Ctalk Dwelcome17、Aconcern Bcomplain Cargue Dquarrel18、Aassist Bcall Ctreat Dpass19、Apassion Battention Cattitude Dambition20、Aexplaining Bwhispering Cspeaking DgreetingSection 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 1The key to getting people to work together effectively could be giving them the freedom to choose their collaborators (合作者) and the comfort of working with established contacts, new research suggests.In the study, David Melamed, an assistant professor of sociology at the Ohio State University and lead author of the study, and his co-authors found participants through the Amazon Mechanical Turk website a service that allows researchers to hire people from around the world for a variety of purposes. For this study, all participants were from the United States.Those who agreed to participate played online games in which each player started out with 1,000 monetary units that translated to $1 in real money they could pocket. If one player agreed to pay another player 50 monetary units, that second person would actually acquire 100 units. Each of the 16-round games included about 25 participants, some of whom participated in multiple games. In all, 810 people participated in the research.Some of the games included random networks, where certain people could interact. Others included clustered (群集的) networks, in which a small group had multiple connections an arrangement that was designed to mimic (模拟) real life, where humans often run their lives in packs. And the networks were either static (静态的) or dynamic (动态的). In static networks, a player could interact only with the appointed partners. In dynamic networks, participants could cut their ties with another player and form new connections. Furthermore, some of the games included reputation information. Participants were labeled based on their history of willingness to share money. The idea was to test whether those known to collaborate were favored by other players based on reputation a facto