邢台市内丘县2023年考研英语一模拟试题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)There Really Was a Santa ClausAnn worked for a big company. One of the duties of her 1 was to go to the post office every day and 2 the company mail. One day in December, she 3 a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus 4 on the corner of the street. Each day she 5 her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and 6 her a Merry Christmas.At night the temperature dropped below 0C, but the Santa Claus 7 stood in the cold wind. 8 she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.A week later, a(n) 9 Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “Hes very 10 today.” She prayed for his health.Later that day, a colleague came into her office 11 “I dont know what Im going to do.” “Whats wrong?” she asked. “Its my ex-husband,” her colleague 12 , I dont have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas, 13 my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they wont have anything this year.” The lady 14 her colleague, “Im sure everything will 15 . Its Christmas. Believe in miracles (奇迹).”That evening, she told her husband about her colleagues 16 , “I know we dont have much money to 17 , but Id like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. Well just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldnt afford to buy anything for 18 but we still had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled, “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”She reached up and held him. Warmth spread 19 her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus and he had 20 her!1、AfamilyBjobClifeDreligion2、AreceiveBgo throughCanswerDpick up3、AspottedBwatchedCsensedDfollowed4、AstandingBwaitingCplayingDperforming5、AearnedBcountedCsavedDthrew6、AsendBwishCofferDtell7、AevenBjustCstillDyet8、AAlthoughBIfCSinceDAfter9、AhonestBnewCconsiderateDstrong10、AsadBpoorCcoldDsick11、Ain tearsBin shockCin horrorDin trouble12、AconcludedBdecidedCcontinuedDcommented13、AorBbutCsoDotherwise14、AremindedBamusedCteasedDcomforted15、Awork outBcome backCrun outDopen up16、AmessageBsuggestionCsituationDexample17、AlendBhelpCloseDpay18、AourselvesBthemselvesCusDothers19、AofBtoCamongDthrough20、ArelaxedBdoubtedCmarriedDshapedSection 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 1Your New Years plan to move more is one of the toughest to stick to, and a group of scientists working with obese(过度肥胖的) mice think theyre starting to understand whyRather than our sedentary(久坐的) lives causing weight gain, says Alexxai Kraviz, the National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who led the study, changes in brain chemistry after we start gaining weight affect our capacity to move.“Obses mice can move just fine,” says Kravitz, who published the work with his team in Cell Metabolism “They just dont.”What Kravitzs team found is that the activity of a particular dopamine(多巴胺) receptor linked to movement goes down as mice gain weight on a high-fat diet. So the nice slow down and they move less. And when the researchers restored the activity of that dopamine receptorDR2the mice started moving more, even though they were still obese. The team also saw that lean mice missing the DR2 receptor acted like obese mice. This is the target, says Kravitzrestoring that dopamine receptor function. “Maybe 20 or 30 years down the road, we could do that in people,” he says.And there is one more thing: The scientists fed normal mice and the mice lacking DR2 the same high-fat diet. Both sets of mice gained weight at the same rate.Kravitz says this is important because mice lacking DR2 move less from the get-go, whereas a normal mouse takes a little time to start seeing that dopamine receptor-related loss of exercise. The ability to exercise seems to be disconnected from weight gain, he says.“Exercise is a healthy thing to do, but its impact on weight loss has been exaggerated,” he says. “We have to be realistic about the size of the effect of exercise on weight, as opposed to health benefits.”Still, before you abandon your New Years exercise plan, keep in mind that this study was done using a high-fat diet, and not the normal calorie restriction that people maintain when they diet.Thats a big drawback to the work, says Vicki Vieira-Potter, a University of Missouri physiologist not involved in the study.