考研《英语一》2023年湖南省怀化市芷江侗族自治县考前冲刺试卷含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》2023年湖南省怀化市芷江侗族自治县考前冲刺试卷 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) Just before Christmas, my daughter Katie and I went over to my dad ‘s place to decorate. While we worked on the tree, grand babies Decie and Johnny 1 their great-grandfather Papa Cox. Their laughter and 2 arguments must have reminded Papa of the past days when my brother and I were just their 3 because I saw a twinkle in his 80-year-old eyes. Hanging the 4 decorations on Papa’s tree, I couldn’t help gently touching the very oldest of the glass balls. Those I made sure to 5 from the uppermost branches, safely out of reach of tiny hands. When the tree was beautifully dressed and glowing, we bid my dad goodbye with lots of hugs and kisses and 6 for home. Later that night, in the quiet darkness, I pulled my 7 up close and lay down to rest and remember. The Christmas I turned 16, while decorating the tree with Mama, I 8 dropped and broke a decoration. The old glass ball was blue and its surface began to fall 9 ; it had been on our tree for as long as I could remember. 10 , I bent to pick up the broken pieces and was surprised to find a tiny sheet of paper among the pieces. Unfolding it, I recognized my father’s penciled writing. Lifting my eyes, I saw my mother’s 11 expression. “Your daddy wrote that and 12 it in that blue ball during our first Christmas together, just before you were born,” she said with a smile. I wouldn’t have believed it, 13 the proof there in my hands. The daddy I knew always looked upon getting the tree decorated as a chore he wanted 14 part in. In fact, sometimes he could be a bit of a lazy and mean man around the holidays! And yet this bit of 15 paper proved that long ago my daddy had done something apparently romantic at Christmas. Carefully laying the note aside, I cleaned up