考研英语一甘肃省临夏回族自治州和政县2023年高分冲刺试题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 recently visited India to meet women with AIDS. Having AIDS is considered as a mark of disgrace and the punishment is abandonment. Most of these women had been 1 by their family.What I 2 most is how much they wanted to touch me and be touched as if physical 3 somehow proved their 4 .I spent time with the dying and saw rows of cots(帆布床). Every cot was 5 except for one in the corner, so I went there, hoping to provide some help. The 6 was a woman in her 30s. She had 7 eyes and was skinny. 8 , I suddenly felt helpless. I had nothing to 9 her. I couldnt save her, either.I 10 down and reached out to touch her-and when she 11 my hand, she grabbed it and wouldnt let go. We had been there together for a while when she pointed upward. It took me some time to 12 that she wanted to go up to the roof and sit outside. It was getting 13 and the sun was going down, and no one seemed 14 to take her upstairs.I carried her up. She sat on a chair, facing the west and watching the 15 I reminded the workers to 16 her later. Then I had to leave. But she never 17 me.Sometimes its the people you cant help who 18 you the most . Optimism isnt a passive expectation that things will get better. It is a(n) 19 that we can make things better and we can help people, if we dont lose hope and dont look 20 .1、AbeatenBabandonedCscoldedDcheated2、AvalueBcomplainCrememberDwonder3、AexcitementBcollisionCpleasureDcontact4、AbirthBfailureCworthDfuture5、AoccupiedBattendedCmadeDcovered6、ApatientBwitnessCnurseDworker7、AshiningBbeautifulCsorrowfulDgreedy8、AOtherwiseBHoweverCInsteadDBesides9、AentertainBprotectCconvinceDoffer10、AkneltBcalmedCwentDjumped11、ApushedBfeltCshookDwarmed12、Afigure outBget acrossCpoint outDput down13、AclearBcloudyClateDwindy14、AbraveBdeterminedCconfidentDwilling15、AnightBsunsetCroofDperformance16、AtreatBsaveCcomfortDfetch17、AleftBforgotCforgaveDthanked18、AchallengeBconfuseCsatisfyDinspire19、AopportunityBpromiseCbeliefDintention20、AawayBupCoutDbackSection 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 1Before Christmas Eve in 1870 Richard Wagner and his wife, Cosima, had agreed not to buy each other Christmas presents. They were simply too poor. But Wagner was planning a surprise gift.For more than two months he had been crafting a piece of music to be performed outside Cosimas bedroom door on Christmas morning. He had based it on themes later to be used in his opera Siegfried, plus a little nursery song he had written for their children two years earlier. He completed the Siegfried Idyll three weeks before Christmas and arranged for conductor Hans Richter to choose the members of the small orchestra. Richter conducted secret rehearsals, first in Zurich then at a hotel in Lucerne.Wagner invited philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to the final rehearsal on Christmas Eve at the Hotel du Lac and they arrived together at the Wagners home in the village of Trihschen. There they found Cosima decorating the Christmas tree and preparing presents for the children.At seven oclock on Christmas morning the musicians arrived and quietly arranged themselves on the stairs outside Cosimas room. They began to play.“As I awoke to the light of dawn,” Cosima said later, “my mind passed from one dream into another. Familiar sounds from Siegfried came to my ears. It was as if the house or more accurately our entire being, was rising up in music and going up to heaven. Sacred memories, birdsong and sunrise, interwoven with music from Siegfried calmed my heart and I came to realize that I was not dreaming, and yet was experiencing the most wonderful one of all dreams. Now at last I understood all of Richards writing in secret.”And yet Wagner had kept his promise not to buy his wife a Christmas present. December 25th was Cosimas birthday.1、Why did the Wagners agree not to buy Christmas presents for each other?AThey both didnt like to buy presents. BThey were only too poor.CThey were very rich. DThey didnt have the habit.2、What was Cosima doing when the final rehearsal was conducted on Christmas Eve at the Hotel du Lac?ACosima was sleeping.BCosima was playing with the children at home.CCosima was busy with the preparation for Christmas.DCosima was cooking in the kitchen.3、What does the underlined word “themselves” in Paragraph 4 refer to?AChristmas