考研《英语一》2023年青海省海东地区互助土族自治县预测试卷含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》2023年青海省海东地区互助土族自治县预测试卷 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) I decided to become a comet searcher on a bright^ clear morning 50 years ago in Montreal. It was a bit of an impromptu (即兴的） 1 . I had a French test 2 and knew that the examiner, Mr. Hutchison, would ask me about my career plans. I had to come up with something that was both credible and easily 3 into French. About six years earlier I truly had become 4 about the night sky, but to stand up and say, “Astronomie!” was not enough. Mr. Hutchison would want 5 . I recalled—a comet that had recently been discovered from Japan-one that 6 became the brightest of the 20th century. Without a further thought, I decided that I was going to be a 7 for comets. Not coincidentally, the English and French words for a comet (une comte) sound very 8 , so my new occupation was 9 to talk about in French. And 10 to the answer I gave Mr. Hutchison, I began searching for cornels after graduation. Fortunately, working as a science journalist and giving lectures about the night sky have allowed me to 11 my cosmic passion and still pay the bills. Discovering my first cornet 12 almost 19 years. On that particular night, November 13, 1984. As I 13 the telescope again and again, I slowly 14 that a fuzzy (模糊的）object was not staying in the same place but was creeping northward, as only a cornet 15 . I telephoned an astronomer at Lowell Observatory Ariz., who 16 my find. I felt as though I could 17 right up to the sky I loved so much. Michael Rudenko discovered the comet the next evening, and 18 the new object became known as Cornel Levy-Rudenko. In the following 50 years, I discovered 22 other new cornels. It is the joy of the search, 19 the discoveries, that 20 me going. 1、A．plan B．idea