山南地区乃东县2023年考研《英语一》全真模拟试题含解析.docVIP

山南地区乃东县2023年考研《英语一》全真模拟试题 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) If you’ve always hoped to give up your 9-to-5 job to move to Maine to operate a restaurant, then the Center Lovell Inn, built in 1805, could make your dream come true. All you need to make it yours is $125, a postage stamp, and a 200-word essay. In 1993, the then-owner of then inn, Smith, 1 an essay contest to find a successor(继任者). He chose Jack, who had been 2 a 50,000-square-foot restaurant in Maryland 3 winning ownership of the inn. But after more than two decades of managing the Center Lovell Inn, Jack, now 68, is ready to 4 . And he’s planning his own essay contest of find the inn’s new owner. “There are a lot of very 5 people in the restaurant business who would like to have their own place but can’t 6 it,” Jack told the Press Herald. “This is a way for them to have the 7 to try.” Jack hopes to 8 at least 7,500 participants, which would earn him more than $900,000. Jack has promised to stop 9 limits to the participants after the number of them 10 that figure 7,500. “If I get more participants, all the better,” he said. To apply, applicants(18 years of age and older) can 11 a 200-or-less-word essay on the 12 of why they’re the right fit, as well as a check for $125, to the Center Lovell Inn postmarked by May 7. Jack well 13 the applicants to a top 20 and from there, two anonymous(匿名) judges will select the new 14 of the inn. Jack is hopping to 15 the successor on May 1st, 2017. Jack is 16 that just as it did last time, the essay contest will 17 a fitting new owner for the centuries-old inn. He said people often asked him, “ ‘What if you get the 18 person or what if this person lies to you’? Our answer was and is, ‘We trust.’ It was part of the 19 of this whole thing. And it 2