2023年莆田市城厢区考研《英语一》高分通关卷含解析.docx

2023年莆田市城厢区考研英语一高分通关卷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)It was the last day of the final examination in a large eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors gathered, discussing the exam due to begin in a few On their faces was confidence. This was their last exam before they went on to 2 and jobs.Some talked of jobs they already had; others talked of jobs they3 get. With all this assurance of four years ofcollege, they felt ready and able to take 4 of the world.The approaching exam, they knew, would be a(n) 5 task, because the professor had said they could bring 6 books or notes they wanted, requesting only that they did not 7 each other during the test.After they entered the classroom 8, the professor passed out the papers. And smiles9 on the students' faces as theynoted there were only five essay-type questions.Three hours had passed 10 the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was a frightened expression. Papers in hand, no one spoke as the professor faced the class.He looked at the 11 faces before him, and then asked, "How many completed all five questions?" 12 a hand was raised.“How many answered fbur?” Still no hands.“Three? Two?” The students moved restlessly in their seats.“One, then? Certainly somebody finished 13 /'But the class remained silent.The professor put down the papers. "That is exactly what I 14 he said. "I just want to impress upon you that, _ 15 you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the 16 you don't know. Thesequestions you couldn't answer are relatively 17 in everyday practice. " Then smiling, he added, uYou will all 18 this course, but remember - even if you are now college graduates, your education has just 19The years have 20 the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.1、A. secondsB.hoursC. minutesD.days2、A. graduationB.discussionC. educationD.interview3、A. mustB.wouldC. have toD.used to4、A. holdB.chargeC. controlD.place5、A. interestingB.hardC. unusualD.easy6、 A. noB.eitherC. allD.any9. B10. D11. C12. B13. D14. A15. A16. C17. D18. B19. B20. ASection II Reading Comprehension2、1. C2. B3. D4. D3、1. D2. C3. B4、1. B2. A3. B4. C5、1. C2. D3. D4. A6、1. business2. seeing3. wishing4. had been5. . Unfortunately6. experienced7. as8. . better9. That10. what7、1. Historically2. states3. strengthened4. was based5. most productive6. a7. under8. it9. . to advocate10. whoseSection III Translation8、1. B2. F3. G4. A5. D9、L G2. A3. C4. E5. B7、 A. talk toB. look atC refer toD. listen to8、A. nervouslyB , quicklyC. joyfullyD. curiously9、A. changedB. appearedC frozeD. stopped10、 A. thenB. asC. afterD. before11 > A. pleasedB. surprisedC. worriedD. moved12、A. OnceB. NotC. OnlyD. Even13、A. allB. noneC. itD. one14、A. expectedB. enjoyedC. hatedD. wondered15、A. even thoughB. as thoughC. now thatD. right now16> A. examB. questionC. subjectD. college17、A. valuableB. difficultC , strangeD. common18、A. failB. passC. takeD. start19、A. completedB begunC. failedD. succeeded20、A. weakenedB. rememberedC. strengthenedD. forgotSection 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 1Dr. Amanda Harris was ready for sleep since it was already 11 pm. The phone rang. On the other end of the line was a woman about to break a promise. The woman was her mother's neighbor. Flora Harris had made the neighbor swear she wouldn't tell her daughter she'd had a heart attack and was in hospital. The neighbor wisely decided to disobey orders.Amanda desperately wanted to get to the hospital immediately, but she couldn't. She lives in Washington D. C. , and her mother lives in California. For the past year and a half, Amanda has gone to Los Angeles every other month to take care of her mother. Flora Harris takes care of her husband, James, who's 91 and has Alzheimer's disease. They live in their own home, and a caregiver comes to help them a few hours a day.Amanda is one of many Americans facing the heartache of how to take care of aging parents from afar. She's often worried and guilty, not to mention busy with a demanding job, two teenage daughters and the frequent trips to California.In some ways, Amanda is lucky. She has the resources to make the trips to Los Angeles. Plus, she is a doctor who treats the elderly. She's treated countless patients whose children live far away.“But it's still tough,“ she says. "I can foresee what the next few years are going to look like, and it's not a pretty picture.There will come a time when my father won't recognize me and I worry he's going to be violent and hurt my mother.”So what do you do when you live a continent away from your aging, sick parents? You can hire someone to help, but you can't count on it completely.1、Why is Amanda worried and guilty?A. She is tired of taking care of her husband.B. She cannot afford to go to California often.C. She cannot take good care of her aging parents.D. She has heart disease and cannot do a demanding job.2、The author considers Amanda lucky because.A. her parents are well cared by a caregiverB. she has experience of treating the elderlyC , her parents are not very oldD. she has a lot of free time3、Whafs one of the symptoms of a person with Alzheimer's disease?A. Having no sense of pain.B , Having heart attacks often.C. Always feeling worried and guilty.D. Being unable to recognize relatives.4、The writer writes this passage in order to.A. stress the importance of tending aging parentsB. give some advice on tending aging parents from afarC. introduce the current situation of aging parents in the USAD. show the difficulty of tending aging parents living far awayText 2Last year, when our three-year-old great-granddaughter Kylie was taken to see Santa Claus, she made sure to give him her wish list of toys. A week later, she ran into a different Santa in a mall. He stopped to ask what she wanted for Christmas. Kylie was surprised and let him know: "If you can't remember what I told you last week, how are you going to remember on Christmas Eve?!”Mary Paul, Milwaukee, WisconsinAs my son Mike and I drove to the mall, we passed a Salvation Army Santa ringing his bell. "Mike/ I said, “there's Santa!” He shook his head. “That's just some guy in a Santa suit,“ he said. It saddened me to think that maybe my son no longer believed in Santa, and we drove the rest of the way in silence. At the mall, we spotted another Santa greeting young believers.Suddenly, Mike took off toward him. Turning back to me, he shouted. "Now, there's the real Santa!”Michael E. Fahey, Huntley, IllinoisWe immigrated to America from China when 1 was six. Because I was shy and didn't speak English, I had few friends. My days were spent at home with my brother. Sometimes we'd help our neighbor Mr. Mueller pull weeds. One Christmas Day, there was a knock at the door. Grandma opened it, and there stood a big fellow in red with a snow-white beard, laughing, "Ho, ho, ho! He handed out presents and made us laugh. I had so much fun. It was years later when I learned that our special Santa was our neighbor Mr. Mueller.Joanne Tang, Litchfield Park, Arizona1、（小题 1） Why was Kylie surprised when running into a different Santa?A. Because she got what she wished.B. Because she knew who the Santa was.C. Because she wished to get another toy.D. Because she thought they were the same Santa.2、（小题 2） What would M汰e's parent feel as to M汰e's different attitudes towards Santa?A. Angry. B. Sad.C. Confused. D. Understandable.3 （小题 3） What did Mr. Mueller do on Christmas Day?A. He stood outside our house.B , He gave out gifts by acting as Santa.C. He continued to pull weeds.D. He stayed with us in our home.Text 3You've probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, vocal music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists （精神病医师）and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.But there's a rapidly growing kind of professional who does a little bit of everything. She or he is called a "life coach”. People who are at crossroads in their lives and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost are turning to them for help.The idea that one person's success story can change other people's lives for the better goes back at least to the 1930s. Dale Carnegie's famous seli-improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People “ came along soon thereafter.But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers. They use their own experiences in business, sports, military service, or psychotherapy理疗法）to help others make critical life decisions.They often give their approach a slogan, such as “energy coaching, or "fearless living" or "working yourself happy”.Dave Lakhani in Boise, Idaho, for instance, works with salespeople to develop what he calls a “road map”. He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for one's career and life outside work.Lakhani's Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful including battered women and struggling single mothers.But others in the so-called "helping professions are not thrilled about the life-coaching movement. They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and that slick （华而不实的）promoters who mess with people's lives can do more harm than good.1、Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A , Working Yourself HappyB , Life Coaches Help with Tough DecisionsC. How to Cope with Daily Life with Life CoachesD. The Life-Coaching Movement2、The underlined phrase “life coach“ in Paragraph 2 means "A. the career counselor who teaches skillsB. the psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily lifeC. the fitness coach who teaches us lessonsD. the specialist who helps us make important life decisions3、The last paragraph is mainly about .A. the introductions of life coachB. the disagreements of life coachC the effects of life coachD. the experiences of life coach4、What is the author's attitude towards life coaches?A. Cautious.B. Approving.C. Casual.D. Disapproving.Text 4Fashions have a lot of rules. Most of them, however, are just wrong. But there7s one rule that goes beyond tradition and into the field of scientific study of the brain: Black garments are slimming. It all comes down to how your visual system processes the light. The below holes in each square are the same in size, yet the white hole looks bigger than the black hole.In the 1500s, Galileo Galilei noticed that some of the planets looked larger when viewed with the naked eye （肉眼）than they did when viewed through a telescope, making the white light of Venus （金星）appear eight to ten times larger than Jupiter （木星）in the night sky. He knew something strange must be going on with his vision to cause this illusion, but he wasn't sure what it was. Luckily, scientists never stopped wondering, and in 2014, they figured it out.Our visual system operates via two main channels: “orT neurons （神经元）that are sensitive to light things and "off' neurons that are sensitive to dark things. When it came to the dark “off' neurons, the researchers found that they responded predictably to dark shapes on a light background - the greater the contrast between the two, the more active these neurons were. But the light "on" neurons behaved unpredictably. Even with the same amount of contrast, light objects on a dark background caused a greater response in these neurons.This makes some sense, evolutionarily speaking. In the dark of night, you'd want to be able to take in every bit of light you can get, so a visual system that enlarges light objects on a dark background could be very useful. However, it's not that hard to see dark objects in the light of day. It has some effects in the colors of your clothes and in the appearance of the planets 一 the brighter appearance of Venus in the night sky makes it look bigger than the darker Jupiter.1、What did Galileo Galilei believe according to Paragraph 2?A. The neurons led to the difference.B. There was something wrong with his telescope.C. The difference was caused by his visual illusion.D. Things were bigger when seen through telescopes.2、What do we know about the "off' neurons?A. They are sensitive to light objects.B. Their behavior can't be predicted.C. They behave differently from person to person.D. Their activeness improves with the contrast of colors.3、What does the author think of the phenomenon?A. It makes people feel puzzled.B. It brings great harm to people.C. It is more common among youths.D. It is beneficial to people's evolution.4、What is the text mainly about?A. Why we look thinner when in black.B. What visual illusions bring to people.C. How we are affected by the fashion rules.D. Whether people's visual system is different. Part B Directions:Read the following text and answer the questions by choosing the most suitable subheading from the list A -G for each numbered paragraph (41 45). There are two extra subheadings which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Last Monday, my father would be on al. (busy)trip for five days Having gotten my promise of being great at home and taking care of my mother, he rest assured and put his luggage into the trunk of his carlsee) my father driving away, my mother and I waved our hands and said goodbye to him For a moment, I began to miss my father,3. (wish) that he would be safe and well the next days I thought everything would go well, as this was not the first time that my father4. (be)away for several days Yet, 一5. (fortunate), my mother caught a cold the next morning Looking at her pale face, 16. (experience) high levels of anxiety However, I told myself that I had to calm down and look after my mum,7, I promised to my dad The moment I got my mum to sleep, I put cold towel on her forehead, found pills in the medicine box, and made some noodles for her Luckily, she woke up and feltSCgood), after taking the pills and the noodlesQher fever was gone relieved and satisfied me a lot In the next four days, I was taking her body temperature twice a