赣州市大余县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)Years ago, I had the opportunity to conduct a seminar. This was a motivational one basically designed to 1 people in changing their lives, 2 their personal barriers in life.It was always 3 to meet the seminar attendees. Some of them couldnt wait to get started, others were 4 about what they would get for their money, and others attended 5 often being forced by pressure.This last group was always the most 6 to work with. They sit there with 7 crossed, rarely participating in any of the specific exercises meant to help them build positive behaviors to 8 old habits and thoughts.In the end, I started to look through the evaluations paying particular attention to find the form submitted by one of the attendees who had seemingly 9 less attentiveness. To my disappointment, in this 10 , there was no form. I left that day thinking that I had 11 this person.As I 12 my preparation for the next seminar afterwards, one day I received a phone call it was the 13 attendee who had not submitted the evaluation form! My immediate 14 was to prepare for a request for a total refund(退款).It was not the case, 15 He took his time to tell me how much the seminar had already helped him change his ways, and how much more comfortable he was with himself now that he knew how to overcome his own personal barriers 16 success both personally and professionally. I was surprised and glad to be 17 to him.Actually we all have power to affect the 18 of others, but this power can also be negative if you use it wrongly or improperly. Power you all have it use it 19 because you never know what impact you have on other people even when you think 20 1、ArescueBassistCsponsorDtreat2、Abreaking downBworking againstCbreaking throughDworking out3、AfascinatingBfrighteningCincredibleDmysterious4、AconsciousBexplicitCroundaboutDskeptical5、AwillinglyBreluctantlyCvoluntarilyDnaturally6、AinspiringBdaringCchallengingDshocking7、AhandsBwrinklesCsmilesDarms8、AimpressBconquerCtwistDspin9、AdisplayedBpaidCclarifiedDrequested10、AcourtBcaseCguiltDgeneration11、AsucceededBmanagedCanticipatedDfailed12、Awent aboutBturned overCput awayDset off13、AarbitraryBboredCveryDsuspected14、AreactionBfeelingCeffortDmind15、AbutBalthoughCthoughDwhile16、AtoBbeyondCoppositeDagainst17、AhopefulBhelpfulChandyDholy18、AgesturesBfunctionsCemotionsDbehaviors19、AwiselyBfoolishlyCregularlyDregularly20、AadditionallyBalikeCotherwiseDoverallSection 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 1Time TravelIf you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would watch an original performance of a Shakespeares play in Elizabethan England? What about hanging out with Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period? Or maybe youd voyage far ahead of the present day to see what the future holds.The possibility of time travel is indeed appealing. Stories exploring the subject have been around for hundreds of years. Perhaps the best known example is science fiction novel. The Time Machine, which was written by H.G. Wells and published in 1895 for the first time. It was adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to a vehicle transporting people into the far future.But could time travel actually be possible? Some scientists say yes, in theory. They propose using cracks in time and space called “wormholes”, which could be used as shortcuts to other periods. Einsteins theory of relativity allows time travel in extreme circumstances. And British physicist Stephen Hawking says you could travel into the future with a really fast spaceship going at nearly the speed of light. Though building such a spaceship would of course be no simple task.Even if you could travel into the past, there is something called the “grandfather paradox”. It asks what would happen if a time traveler were to go back in time and have his own grandfather killed for some reason, and therefore prevent himself from being born. If the time traveler wasnt born, how would he travel back in time?And would you really like to visit the future? In H.G. Wells book, the main character travels into dis