浙江省台州市路桥区2023年考研《英语一》考前冲刺试卷含解析.docVIP

浙江省台州市路桥区2023年考研《英语一》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) My most memorable occasion with an old song in a new place was in late April, 1974. While I was then teaching mathematics in an American university, a small grant(拨款)allowed me to teach at the University of New South Wales in Australia. I had just? 1 . One evening I went to a? 2 that had a young piano player. Almost all the songs he played were ones Id never heard before. He asked for? 3 , and people asked for other songs completely? 4 to me. Then someone pointed to me, We have an American? 5 - hes new here. Lets hear a request from him. In my great ignorance of? 6 music, either American or Australian, I was on the spot. But I had begun to learn Australian? 7 . The University of New South Wales is on a hillside above a major avenue named Anzac Parade,? 8 the Australia New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), which? 9 for England in World War Ⅰ. Anzac Day is an important Australian holiday honoring the sacrifices (牺牲) made by? 10 .The important holiday? 11 on April 25, the day the ANZAC forces landed at Gallipoli, in northern Turkey, in 1915.And I did know a song that seemed? 12 for the holiday. I asked the? 13 if he could play The White Cliffs of Dover. He said, I dont? 14 that one. A visible shock went around the restaurant Then a(n)? 15 man said, Well, lers sing it for him. Actually the entire room,? 16 everyone over the age of 40, joined in singing the song, which became popular in England in 1942 and? 17 throughout the English-speaking world. Its an old song.? 18 it expresses a hope for peace as timely today as it was during the Battle of Britain. And people made it very? 19 afterward that they appreciated my knowledge and respect for? 20 tradition. The newcomer, in the new place,