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考研《英语一》崇信县2023年深度预测试题 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) Twenty-first century humanity has mapped oceans and mountains, visited the moon, and surveyed the planets. But for all the progress, people 1 don’t know one another very well. That brings about Theodore Zeldin’s “ 2 of conversation” — events 3 individuals sit in pairs with persons they don’ t know for three hours of 4 talk designed to help people know better about each other. Mr. Zeldin heads Oxford Muse, a l0-year-old foundation based on the 5 that what people need is not more information, but more inspiration and encouragement. The “feast” in London looks 6 at politics or events, but at how people have felt about work, relations among the sexes, hopes 7 fears, enemies and authority, the shape of their lives. The “menu of 8 ” includes topics like “How have your concerns changed 9 the years?” Or, “What have you done against the past?” As participants gathered, Zeldin opened with a speech: that despite 10 communications like QQ and MSN in a globalized age, issues of human heart 11 Many people are lonely, or occupied in dealing with their daily businesses that discourage knowing the 12 of one another. “We are trapped in 13 conversations and the whole point now is to think, which is sometimes painful,”he says. “But 14 interaction is what separates us from other species, 15 maybe dogs that do have interactions with humans.” The main rules of the “feast”: Don’t 16 with someone you know or ask questions you would not answer. The only awkward moment came when the multi-racial crowd of people of different ages, in sun hats, ties and 17 , looked to see 18 they would talk with for hours. 19 15 minutes later, everyone was seated and talking, continuing full force until organizers interrupted them 180 minutes later. S