考研英语一衡水市枣强县2023年临考冲刺试题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)I always remembered the first time I took part in an English composition competition. “Right! Dean would be the 1 of our class to participate in the English composition competition,” my classmates said. (Applauding)I was too 2 to speak when I heard what my classmates said. In order not to 3 short of my classmates 4 I trained myself very hard for the hope of being the 5 of the competition, which would take place a month later. I 6 a lot of vocabulary, sentence structures and 7 rules and read many good or renowned articles. Not having I 8 pretty well, the day came. Every candidate 9 me looked so well prepared and 10 “Only 1.5 hours. Start,” a supervisor suddenly said. Seeing the 11 “What do most teenagers concern nowadays?” I was nervous and got 12 block. Whats worse, other candidates had begun writing. Moments later, I 13 myself, took a deep breath, and began brainstorming ideas 14 the topic. I quickly wrote down the composition structure, central theme, and 15 necessary elements. As the finishing time was 16 , I tried my best to accelerate my writing. Unfortunately, 17 my failure of time management, I left my composition incomplete. My final draft looked like a robot 18 legs were broken.The result came out two weeks later. To my surprise, I got the second prize! All my classmates cheered for me. This encouraged me a lot 19 I was not the first prize winner, I could still 20 the scent of pride and happiness spreading around me.1、AplayerBchoiceCrepresentativeDperson2、AproudBdelightedCnervousDsurprised3、AgetBbeCloseDfall4、ApromisesBexpectationsCdreamsDwords5、AsuccessBbeaterCwinnerDvictory6、AmemorizedBcopiedCreadDwrote7、AgrammarBphraseCpatternDterm8、ArememberedBpreparedCstartedDcompleted9、AbesidesBexceptCexcept forDas well as10、AeasyBnervousCinterestedDunconfident11、AproblemBideaCtopicDtheme12、AwritersBteachersCthinkersDcomposers13、ApersuadedBtoldCencouragedDc almed14、AwithBtowardsCatDfor15、AanotherBthe otherCotherDothers16、AapproachingBaccessingCfinishingDending17、Athanks forBdue toCas a resultDon account18、Aof whichBwhichCwhoseDthat19、AHoweverBAs a resultCWorse stillDAlthough20、AsmellBtouchCsenseDrealizeSection 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 1Grasse has always been associated with smell. In the Middle Ages it smelt particularly unpleasant due to its leather tanning (制革) industry. The nobles only rarely visited the pretty and charming town to pick up their handmade leather gloves. In spite of their grand lands in the surrounding countryside? Grasse was certainly a necessary evil with no self-respecting nobles owning buildings there.Molinard, a Grasse tanner (制革工人) himself, created the first Grasse perfume. Word spread like wildfire amongst the nobles about the designer perfumed gloves. Molinard offered a pair of his gloves to Catherine de Medici (the Queen), who gave plenty of praise to her Grasse perfumed gloves; she almost assured (确保) Grasses reputation as the perfume capital of the world. Thanks to Catherine de Medici, Grasse merchants were encouraged to grow the perfume plants that tanners needed to supply perfumed leather to the nobles.Grasse has four perfume factories as well as a perfume school and a perfume museum. Fragonards perfume museum is situated on the first floor of its perfume factory and displays an amazing private collection of perfume bottles, presentation boxes, documents and equipment that tells the history of perfume making from its earliest beginnings to the present day. The perfume museum is open every day, Sundays and public holidays included.Grasse is certainly a perfumed heaven, a far cry from its smelly beginning as a leather tanning town. Now famous for a far sweeter smell, Grasse is surrounded by fields of flowers that make real estate (不动产) in Grasse very popular.Those looking for real estate in France would have to go a long way to find anywhere more charming than Grasse with the city of Nice and its airport just a short drive away and plenty of activities to enjoy in the surrounding countryside. Real estate in Grasse is situated between the Southern Alps and the Cote dAzur, allowing owners the best of both worlds.1、Why was Grasse considered to be necessary although it was an evil?ABecause it produced leather gloves.BBecause it made the nobles look respectable.CBecause many nobles lived in its countryside.DBecause it was a beau