宝鸡市金台区2023年考研《英语一》考前冲刺预测试卷含解析.docVIP

宝鸡市金台区2023年考研《英语一》考前冲刺预测试卷 Section I Use of English Directions: 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) One day as a boy and his father were taking a walk in the woods, they saw lying beside a half-fallen tree a pair of shoes. An old workman was cooling his feet in a neighboring stream. The son, in a spirit of 36 ____ , picked up some small pebbles (卵石）and said, “I will put these in the old fellow’s shoes, and it’ll be great fun when he tries to put them on.” “I 37 ____ if you will get much fun out of that,” said the father, “ 38 ____from his clothes, he must be a poor man. And his life is hard. Would there be fun in 39 ____ his troubles? If you were to surprise him in a 40 ____ way, say by putting a coin in each shoe, you would probably enjoy more.” The boy adopted the 41 ____ of his father and slipped a silver coin into each shoe. Then they hid behind a tree to watch the 42 ____ of their trick. After a while, the old man came back to his work and slipped his right foot into his shoe. 43 ____ something hard in the shoe he 44 ____ his foot to see what was inside. He discovered the coin. A(n) 45 ____look came over his face. He turned the coin over and over in his hand, and gazed at it in astonishment. As he looked at it, he felt with his foot for the other shoe, which also held a coin. Then 46 ____ clasping his hands together, he fell upon his 47 ____ and prayed. The boy and his father 48 ____ from his words that his poor wife was sick and 49 ____at home, and that his orphaned grandchildren were suffering starvation, while he was struggling to earn a living. “The kind helper has gone,”cried the old man, “without even waiting to be thanked. But 50____he may go, my blessing shall seek him out and be 51 ____him to the end of life. May God keep him from poverty, 52 ____ him against evil and ever fill his heart with warmth and joy, 53____ he has filled mine today.” The boy and his