考研英语一湖南省湘西土家族苗族自治州保靖县2023年模拟试题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) If youve always hoped to give up your 9-to-5 job to move to Maine to operate a restaurant, then the Center Lovell Inn, built in 1805, could make your dream come true. All you need to make it yours is $125, a postage stamp, and a 200-word essay. In 1993, the then-owner of then inn, Smith, 1 an essay contest to find a successor(继任者). He chose Jack, who had been 2 a 50,000-square-foot restaurant in Maryland 3 winning ownership of the inn. But after more than two decades of managing the Center Lovell Inn, Jack, now 68, is ready to 4 . And hes planning his own essay contest of find the inns new owner. “There are a lot of very 5 people in the restaurant business who would like to have their own place but cant 6 it,” Jack told the Press Herald. “This is a way for them to have the 7 to try.” Jack hopes to 8 at least 7,500 participants, which would earn him more than $900,000. Jack has promised to stop 9 limits to the participants after the number of them 10 that figure 7,500. “If I get more participants, all the better,” he said. To apply, applicants(18 years of age and older) can 11 a 200-or-less-word essay on the 12 of why theyre the right fit, as well as a check for $125, to the Center Lovell Inn postmarked by May 7. Jack well 13 the applicants to a top 20 and from there, two anonymous(匿名) judges will select the new 14 of the inn. Jack is hopping to 15 the successor on May 1st, 2017. Jack is 16 that just as it did last time, the essay contest will 17 a fitting new owner for the centuries-old inn. He said people often asked him, “ What if you get the 18 person or what if this person lies to you? Our answer was and is, We trust. It was part of the 19 of this whole thing. And it 20 we were right.”1、AelectedBheldCattainedDundertook2、AobtainingBbotheringCadoringDmanaging3、AbeforeBafterCwhileDfor4、AdistinguishBretireCpauseDoperate5、AmiserableBthoughtfulCtalentedDarbitrary6、AaffordBaccumulateCadjustDpurchase7、AjusticeBprocedureCassumptionDopportunity8、AgovernBastonishCattractDcomfort9、AindicatingBsettingCreflectingDacknowledging10、AarrivesBstrikesCassociatesDreaches11、AsendBprepareCdonateDpreserve12、AreformBbreakthroughCcompetenceDtopic13、Akeep upBnarrow downCapply forDcast down14、AownerBauthorityCinterpreterDvolunteer15、AidentifyBremarkCannounceDresist16、AreasonableBthankfulCconfidentDconservative17、Apick outBteam up withCbring backDcall up18、AcurrentBinnocentCcautiousDwrong19、AmeansBdrawbackCmagicDhardship20、Alived onBturned outCmarked outDset asideSection 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 1Skeptics are a strange lot. Some of them refuse to admit the serious threat of human activities to the environment, and they are tired of people who disagree with them. Those people, say skeptics, spread nothing but bad news about the environment. The “eco-guilt” brought on by the discouraging news about our planet gives rise to the popularity of skeptics as people search for more comforting worldviews.Perhaps that explain why a new book by Bjorn Lomborg received so much publicity. That book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, declares that it measures the “real state of the world” as fine. Of course, another explanation is the deep pockets some big businesses with special interests. Indeed, Mr. Lomborgs views are similar to those of some Industry-funded organizations, which start huge activities though the media to confuse the public about issues like global warming.So it was strange to see Mr. Lomborgs book go largely unchallenged in the media though his beliefs were contrary to most scientific opinions. One national newspaper in Canada ran a number of articles and reviews full of words of praise, even with the conclusion that “After Lomborg, the environmental movement will begin to die down.”Such one-sided views should have immediately been challenged. But only a different review appeared in Nature, a respected science magazine with specific readership. The review remarked that Mr. Lomborgs “preference for unexamined materials is incredible (不可信的)”。A critical (批判的) eye is valuable, and the media should present information in such a way that could allow people to make informed decisions. Unfortunately, that is often inaccessible as blocked by the desire to be shocking or to defend some special interests. People might become half-blind before a world partially exhibited