考研《英语一》2023年甘肃省庆阳市预测密卷含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》2023年甘肃省庆阳市预测密卷 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) The opening and closing of doors are the most significant actions of man’s life. What a 1 lies in doors! No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door 2 the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth glows red at dusk may harbor 3 The worker may actually have called and 4 the leaking pipe. The cook may have been ill and demanded her passport. There are many kinds of doors. Revolving doors for hotels, shops and public buildings. There are many 5 the busy, bustling ways of modern life. Can you 6 William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens skipping through a 7 door? There are double doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. The 8 and mystery of a door lies in its quality of being hidden. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to 9 what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense. Also, there are many ways of opening doors. There is the cheery 10 of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. There is the sympathetic and awful 11 of the dentist’s maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking, 12 that the doctor is ready for you. The opening of doors has in it some flavor of the 13 , some sense of moving into a new moment. Even in 14 , the opening of a door may bring relief. But the closing of doors could be 15 , A door closed brings 16 to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door 17 shut may often be the most tragic gesture in life. The opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. Life will not stay 18 and let us alone. We are 19 opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life 20 not much longer than a pipe of