自贡市自流井区2023年考研《英语一》预测试题含解析.docVIP

自贡市自流井区2023年考研《英语一》预测试题 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) Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom in Dublin, Ohio, in August 2016 when the door burst open. It was her mother, Leigh Williams, with a(an) 1 story: “A little boy fell into a septic tank (化粪池), and no one can 2 him.” Then she made this 3 of her 13-year-old daughter: Can you help? Madison and Leigh ran to a neighbor’s yard, where they found the boy’s 4 mother and other adults surrounding a septic tank opening. Its diameter was 5 wider than a basketball. The boy had 6 in and was drowning in the sewage (污水). Madison quickly 7 the situation. She was the only one who could 8 through the small hole. Without 9 , she told the adults, “Lower me in.” Inside, the tank was dark, and the air 10 . In the process of finding the boy, her left wrist was injured by a hidden pole so 11 that the hand was useless. But Madison went on skimming the surface of the sewage, hoping to 12 the boy. “Every once in a while, I’d see his little toes she says. “Then I would try to grab them.” After several failed 13 , she finally managed to grasp his foot tightly with her 14 hand. “Pull me up!” she shouted to the others above. Ten minutes after Madison had entered the tank, she and the boy were 15 out. But the boy wasn’t out of 16 . He had been taken away from oxygen long enough that he wasn’t breathing. He was 17 on his side, and an adult gave him several hard beats on the 18 , one right after the other, until the boy coughed up liquids. It was only when Madison heard him cry that she knew he was all right. It took Madison longer to 19 than the boy. She experienced months of physical treatment for her wrist, which, says neighbor Mary, made the girl’s actions more 20 . 1、A．amazing B．puzzli