考研《英语一》融安县2023年高分冲刺试卷含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》融安县2023年高分冲刺试卷 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) My kids sit in Gee’s living room and cautiously lift antique Christmas ornaments(饰品) out of a well-loved cardboard box. Gee stands beside them, quietly 1 each treasure. She tells me that she and Tom built their ornament 2 piece by piece during each year’s after-Christmas sale. She 3 as we leave with the box. Her precious treasures, gathered over a lifetime, have found a new 4 . We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Someone had been 5 our garbage cans to the garage each garbage day, and Jim and I had 6 who. Then one day we 7 him: an elderly man who lived across the street. I baked cookies and left them on a stool outside the garage with a thank-you note. When we got home from work that day, a typed letter had 8 the gift. The letter was from Tom and explained how he had come to walk the neighborhood on garbage day, returning cans for people he 9 knew. Back when he’d been fighting a war I wasn’t 10 to see, his young wife, Gee, had found herself living alone. Neighbors had taken the time to handle her garbage cans 11 she didn’t have to, and he never forgot. Now he 12 it forward by doing the same for all of us. A few years after we’d moved in, Tom 13 . We photocopied that 14 and attached it to one of our own for Gee. We told her how 15 Tom had been to us and how we grieved for her. She wrote back and told us she 16 talked to Tom every day. When Gee invited us over to look through Christmas ornaments, I realized how hard it must be to 17 with that box, a piece of Tom. Jim and I agree to 18 our tree with Gee’s ornaments this Christmas, out of the box that is 19 in Tom’s handwriting. Maybe I’ll talk to him just as Gee still does. Thank you, I’ll say, fo