考研英语一衡阳市石鼓区2023年模拟预测试卷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 am a social worker. I wanted to tell everyone about my very dear friend who passed away a few months ago.I met him many years ago while doing my internship (实习期) in the country prison. He was 1 a program he had designed to help prisoners with drug and alcohol problems. He was always 2 new ways to bring hope and help to these men and their 3 .One of his favorite 4 was the Toy Drive. He would run every Christmas for the children of the prisoners. He did this for twenty years 5 his sudden death. As last Christmas 6 ，I decided that this tradition had to be 7 ，for the children as well as the 8 of my friend.But the file where he kept the names of the people who had been helped by him over the years was 9 . I had to start anew(重新) and with very little 10 ! I started making phone calls, explaining about the project and my 11 . I prayed every night that the event would, 12 , be worthy of my friend. To my great 13 , individuals, churches and businesses began to come on board and, 14 , I had enough toys to give to all the children of the prisoners with some left over for the local community 15 !When Christmas Eve finally arrived, I felt very happy, thinking I had done all I could do and reflecting on what a(n) 16 it had been for me. I was bagging up the remaining toys 17 if there was anyone left who might like them. Then my phone rang.It was my daughter. She 18 to explain about a woman she knew in Kentucky who had five children, one seriously ill, no husband, no heating in the home, no toys! Oh! How could we not?My daughter and I drove all night, from New York to Kentucky, and those children woke up in a nice warm house with plenty of 19 !My friends 20 of kindness lived on that year, reaching all the way to Kentucky!1、Arecording Bdirecting Cattending Dimproving2、Aputting up with Bkeeping up with Ccoming up with Dcatching up with3、Afamily Bgroup Ccompany Dclub4、Aevents Bsports Chobbies Dgames5、Aafter Buntil Cbecause Dsince6、Aarrived Bapproached Cfollowed Dfinished7、Acarried out Blived on Clived out Dcarried on8、Abenefit Bpleasure Cmemory Dfavor9、Aactive Bextra Cmissing Dhiding10、Apressure Btime Cenergy Dconfidence11、Aatmosphere Bimpression Cimportance Ddifficulties12、Asomehow Bhowever Cotherwise Dthough13、Acuriosity Bdisappointment Cthought Drelief14、Aabsolutely Boccasionally Ceventually Dgenerally15、Aas well Bin particular Conce more Dat first16、Aburden Bpity Chonor Ddiscovery17、Apredicting Brealizing Cevaluating Dwondering18、Acalled Bcame Creturned Ddrove19、Achocolates Bcandies Cflowers Dtoys20、Aposition Bspirit Ccourage DattentionSection 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 1 On a flight from Dallas, Texas, to Cincinnati, Ohio, to visit a friend in 2008, event planner Paige Chenault daydreamed about the grand birthday parties shed throw for her daughter one day. (Paige was five months pregnant at the time.) Then, flipping through a magazine, she saw a photo of an impoverished Haitian boy, skinny. “I thought, this kid has nothing,” Paige says.The image stayed with her, andshe resolved to do something to help. “I decided I would use my talents to throw birthday parties for homeless kids,” Paige says. For the next four years, Paige and her husband, Colin, took time out from parenthood to visit shelters to determine how best to pull off the parties.Finally, in January 2012, Paige launched theBirthday Party Project, a nonprofit organization, and recruited friends and family to help decorate Dallass 42-occupant Family Gateway Shelter with balloons and streamers, celebrating the birthdays of 11 boys and girls, with 30 more homeless kids in attendance. “That first party was better than I could have ever imagined,” says Paige.Now Paige and her staff of three paid employees work with regional volunteers to plan monthly themed parties at 12 shelters across the country, some of which house abused or abandoned kids. Each child celebrating a birthday that month gets a$30 gift, a decorative place mat, and an individual cake or cupcake.One of Paiges favorite parts of each party is when the kids make a wish and blow out the candles. “They rarely get a chance to dream big,” says Paige.Her daughter, Lizzie, now seven, often helps out at the parti