考研《英语一》2023年翼城县高分冲刺试卷含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》2023年翼城县高分冲刺试卷 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) Order is the best manager of time. It illustrates many subjects. Thus, obedience to the natural law is order. Virtue is order. The world began with it. 1 was once common before its establishment. The merchant, the clerk and the laborer are all of the same 2 , born with the same expectations and affected by similar influences. They are, it is 3 , born in different positions, but it 4 with themselves whether they shall live nobly or evilly. They may not have their choice of riches or poverty, but they have their 5 of being good or evil. People of the highest position, 6 culture and education, have often as great hardships as the common people. They have to make their incomes go much further. They have to 7 their social status. 8 their incomes may be less satisfactory, they are desperate to 9 and bring the children up as gentlemen. Hume, a famous historian, was a man of good family but his 10 were very small when he was young. In his autobiography, he uses his own case as a(n) 11 of the advantages of frugality (节省). Despite a considerable debt, his mother, a widow, 12 met the difficulties and eventually overcame them. Though her income was less than that of many highly paid men, she educated her children well and brought them up 13 . Hume says, “While studying in France, I 14 that plan of life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I determined to make a 15 frugality supply of my shortage of fortune and to 16 my independence.” At thirty-six he thought himself rich. These are his own words: “My appointments, with my frugality, had helped me reach a fortune which made me 17 ”. Goethe says, “It doesn’t matter within what circle an honest man acts, provided he knows how to 18