资阳市雁江区2023年考研《英语一》临考冲刺试卷含解析

资阳市雁江区2023年考研英语一临考冲刺试卷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)A few years ago, I was working in a small organization. Everyone was busy working on projects all day, 1 a lot from stress. One particular week, I decided to make people smile. So one evening, I wrote up a few quotes that have 2 me over the years. The next morning, I went to work a bit early and quickly 3 them up by the mirrors in the office restroom. Maybe someone else would enjoy the 4 as much as I had, and perhaps they might just 5 their day, I thought.For the next few months, some of the quotes got taken down, but I noticed that a couple 6 . So perhaps others 7 them, too.Eventually, I 8 my contract(合同) with that organization and conditions brought me to other settings. A couple years passed, during which I'd get an email update from my 9 boss and teammates every so often.A few months ago, I was 10 to a reunion with my colleagues to hear 11 on how the project I had worked on was going. Although I 12 worked in this office building, I had really enjoyed working with my team, and was 13 to see them all again. Towards the end of the event, I went to the 14 , and found the quote that I had written two and a half 15 earlier was still up in the same spot by the mirror! It 16 :"The real voyage of 17 consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." Marcel ProustIt was a(n) 18 moment to find it still stood out as a shining reminder each time someone went to the restroom. We never 19 how long a seed planted will take to bloom and give fruitbut simply keep sowing seeds of 20 from the heart .1、Aexpecting Blearning Csuffering Descaping2、Ainspired Bfrustrated Cconfused Dsurprised3、Arang Bcleaned Cpicked Dposted4、Amirrors Bquotes Cdays Dprojects5、Awaste Bspoil Cfreshen Dcelebrate6、Aremained Bfell Cdisappeared Dseparated7、Awrote Bliked Chated Dignored8、Aexchanged Bsigned Crenewed Dfinished9、Aformer Bpresent Cpotential Dreal10、Apersuaded Battracted Cinvited Dsent11、Ainstructions Bupdates Csuggestions Darguments12、Aonce Bseldom Cfrequently Dno longer13、Ahappy Bawkward Cshy Dastonished14、Aoffice Bbathroom Ccinema Dexit15、Adays Bmonths Cyears Ddecades16、Awrote Bexpressed Cread Dreminded17、Ahistory Bdiscovery Caggression Dbusiness18、Asweet Bshocking Ctough Dlucky19、Acare Bconsider Cpredict Dknow20、Aknowledge Bcuriosity Ckindness DtoleranceSection 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 The critics top four books of 2018 are based on Christmas selections in national newspapers, the London Evening Standard, The TLS, The Spectator and the New Statesman.Normal People by Sally Rooney Faber £14.99Sally Rooneys debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was one of last years most talked-about books. The response to the Irish writers follow-up has, if anything, been even more ecstatic. The 27-year-old was praised for her ability to convey subtle modulations of emotion. The novel was long listed for the Man Booker Prize but many felt that it should have done better.Vietnam by Max Hastings William Collins £30This long-awaited historical blockbuster follows the Vietnam War over three decades. from the French “dirty war” of 194654 to Americas capitulation to the Vietcong in 1975. Hastings, who reported from the battlefield in Vietnam as a young British journalist, was praised for his encyclopedic knowledge of the conflict.The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Hamish Hamilton £18.99Pat Barkers novel is a retelling of The lliad but with women at the heart of the action. The central character is Briseis, who appears only glancingly in Homers original. Best-known for her First World War Set Regeneration trilogy (1997). Barker, in her fifties, again focuses on the traumas of war. Reviewers praised the novels subversive energy even if it was judged conventional in places.A Certain Idea of France by Julian Jackson Allen Lane £35This door-stopping biography by British historian Julian Jackson born in 1954 chronicles the life of Charles de Gaulle who is regarded as one of the greatest ever Frenchmen. While acknowledging that de Gaulle wasnt very likeable, Jackson salutes his imagination and boldness- qualities that helped him steer France through its liberation from the Nazis and the war in Algeria. Critics sugge