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1、2023年陕西公共英语考试模拟卷（2）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed it on all sides, and presently through the thick fo
2、lds of those curtains children came dancing in, singly, or in pairs, till a whole troop of ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but little clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite ba
3、re. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their fates, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, a where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and
4、elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seemed conceived there and then out of the joy of beingdancing had surely never been a
5、 labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to the fashioning of their performance; and smiles and love shone from every one o
6、f their faces and from the clever white turnings of their limbs.From this passage, it can be inferred that A the dancing girls are all very beautiful. B the girls come from all over the world. C the two tallest girls are the outstanding dancers. D the girls performance is very successful.Amongst the
7、mthough all were delightfulthere were two who especially riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark thin girl, in whose every expression and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love.During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of
8、 a fair child, whose movements had a very strange soft charm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water lily, or the wooing of a moonbeam by the June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the que
9、erest power of symbolising all longing, and moving ones heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at the very moment of conquest, one seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet.The oth
10、er child who particularly enhanced me was the smallest but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a scanty little rose-petal-coloured shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and
11、 body was full of the sacred fire of motion; and in her little pas seul she seemed to be the very spirit of movement. One felt that Joy had flown down, and was inhabiting there; one heard the rippling of Joys laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sud
12、den bursts of laughing rapture.I looked at my friend; he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself the stage seemed very misty, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden.God kno
13、ws where she got that power of bringing joy to our dry hearts: God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the quality that lie deep in c2.Which of the following is NOT an example of the relationships girls attach importance to A Their relationships with classmates. B
14、 Their relationships with parents. C Their relationships with teachers. D Their relationships with boys. 3.1 Golden sunlight danced in the treetops, and childrens laughter filled the park. The smell of popcorn played on the breeze, and life seemed good. It was one of the happiest Saturday mornings I
15、 had spent with my little daughter, Gigi. 2 That is, until two strangers threw her into their car and sped away. It seemed like a bad dream. I could barely whisper when the police questioned me. For hours we waited, but there was no word on the whereabouts of the car. Tears would start to come. Then
16、 nothing. I was numb with fear. 3 Go home, Maam, the sergeant said. Ill have an officer drive you. Well also want to monitor your telephone. The kidnappers might call, and well want to get a trace. Trust me, these guys cant get far. After what had just happened, it was hard for me to trust anything.
17、 4 My friend Gloria came over that afternoon. I heard about Gigi on the radio, she said. Everyone is looking for the car. The interstates are all blocked. She took my hand. 5 Look here, Gloria said. I want you to have this picture, and I want you to pray with me. 6 It was a picture of a little girl
18、sound asleep in her bed. Standing by the bed was a tall, blond angel. His hand was touching the girls shoulder as he smiled down at her. 7 My nerves were frazzled. You know I dont believe in that kind of thing! I snapped. Im too exhausted for any hocus-pocus right now, Gloria! I want my daughter hom
19、e! I started to shake, and then I began sobbing. 8 Gloria placed the photo on our mantle and knelt down beside me. Just pray with me, she said, holding my hand. 9 I had no strength left, so we prayed and awaited what seemed an eternity. Together, we waited by the phone until sundown. The phone never
20、 rang. 10 Suddenly, the front door swung open. I looked up and screamed. 11 There stood Gigi. Gigi! Thank God! I cried, throwing my arms around her. Where did those men take you How did you get home Did the police find you 12 No Mommy! said Gigi. I was really scared because those men said they were
21、taking me far away. We were going really fast on an old rock road Id never seen before. But then a tall man walked out in front of the car, and they ran off the road and hit a tree. 13 Then the tall man ran up and opened the car door and pulled me out. He was really nice, and said I would be okay no
22、w, and that those men couldnt hurt me. I must have gone to sleep, because then I woke up here in front of our house. He must have brought me home. 14 But who. how did he know. where to bring you My voice broke and trailed to a whisper. 15 I dont know, Mommy, Gigi said. But he was really friendly, an
23、d I wasnt scared of him at all. 16 Just then Gigi noticed Glorias picture on the mantle. Thats him! She squealed, pointing at the picture. Mommy, the tall blond man dressed like an angel. Thats the man that pulled me out of the car! 17 I felt chill-bumps across my neck and arms. Gloria turned pale.
24、Are you sure thats the man Gloria asked. 18 Yeah, thats him. Except he didnt have wings, and he was wearing blue jeans and a tee shirt. But thats him exactly, Id remember him anywhere! 19 Later that night, the police found the injured kidnappers in their wrecked car fifty miles from our home. When q
25、uestioned, the driver remembered swerving to avoid hitting a tall blond man and the backseat door that Gigi sat by had been completely torn off its hinges. 20 Twenty years have gone by. We have never heard from anyone claiming to have rescued Gigi and there have been no logical explanations for Gigi
26、s miraculous escape and return home from a wreck so far away. 21 There have always been things that people cant explain. But, from that day forward, Ive never doubted that many of those things are divine miracles. I believe that all experiences, positive and negative, are given to us for our strengt
27、hening and learning. 22 Gigi now takes her little girl to the park on Saturdays. They enjoy the sunlight as it dances in the treetops, the smell of popcorn, and the laughter of children. She keeps Glorias picture on her mantle, and she remembers her angelic friend. And, like my daughter, I have a fa
28、ith that has carried me through many trials since that day many years ago.Which of the following best describes the authors feeling about the kidnapping A Furious. B Horrified. C Hysteric. D Sensitive. 4.In order to pass the health care reform, the Democratic leaders had toA. get permission from the
29、 president. B. get votes from the Republicans.C. start debate this Tuesday. D. pass a separate bill to change law. 5.In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. The whole region was sparsely settled by people of the frontie
30、rrestless souls who no sooner had hewn fairly habitable homes out of the wilderness and attained to that degree of prosperity which today we should call indigence, then, impelled by some mysterious impulse of their nature, they abandoned all and pushed farther westward, to encounter new perils and p
31、rivations in the effort to regain the meagre comforts which they had voluntarily renounced. Many of them had already forsaken that region for the remoter settlements, but among those remaining was one who had been of those first arriving. He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by
32、the great forest, of whose gloom and silence he seemed a part, for no one had ever known him to smile nor speak a needless word. His simple wants were supplied by the sale or barter of skins of wild animals in the river town, for not a thing did he grow upon the land which, if needful, he might have
33、 claimed by right of undisturbed possession. There were evidences of improvementa few acres of ground immediately about the house had once been cleared of its trees, the decayed stumps of which were half concealed by the new growth that had been suffered to repair the ravage wrought by the axe. Appa
34、rently the mans zeal for agriculture had burned with a failing flame, expiring in penitential ashes. The little log house, with its chimney of sticks, its roof of warping clapboards weighted with traversing poles and its chinking of clay, had a single door and, directly opposite, a window. The latte
35、r, however, was boarded upnobody could remember a time when it was not. And none knew why it was so closed; certainly not because of the occupants dislike of light and air, for on those rare occasions when a hunter had passed that lonely spot the recluse had commonly been seen sunning himself on his
36、 doorstep if heaven had provided sunshine for his need. I fancy there are few persons living today who ever knew the secret of that window, but I am one. The mans name was said to be Murloek. He was apparently seventy years old, actually about fifty. Something besides years had had a hand in his age
37、ing. His hair and long, full beard were white, his grey, lustreless eyes sunken, his face singularly seamed with wrinkles which appeared to belong to two intersecting systems. In figure he was tall and spare, with a stoop of the shouldersa burden bearer. One day Murloek was found in his cabin, dead.
38、 It was not a time and place for coroners and newspapers, and I suppose it was agreed that he had died from natural causes or I should have been told, and should remember. I know only that with what was probably a sense of the fitness of things the body was buried near the cabin, alongside the grave
39、 of his wife, who had preceded him by so many years that local tradition had retained hardly a hint of her existence. That closes the final chapter of this true story. But there is an earlier chapterthat supplied by my grandfather. When Murloek built his cabin and began laying sturdily about with hi
40、s axe to hew out a farmthe rifle, meanwhile, his means of supporthe was young, strong and full of hope. In that eastern country whence he came he had married, as was the fashion, a young woman in all ways worthy of his honest devotion, who shared the dangers and privations of his lot with a willing
41、spirit and light heart. There is no known record of her name; of her charms of mind and person tradition is silent and the doubter is at liberty to entertain his doubt; but God forbid that l should share it! Of their affection and happiness there is abundant assurance in every added day of the mans
42、widowed life; for what but the magnetism of a blessed memory could have chained that venturesome spirit to a lot like that One day Murlock returned from gunning in a distant part of the forest to find his wife lying on the floor with fever, and delirious. There was no physician within miles, no neig
43、hbour; nor was she in a condition to be left, to summon help. So he set about the task of nursing her back to health, but at the end of the third clay she fell into unconsciousness arid so passed away, apparently, with never a gleam of returning reason.One of the adjectives that does not describe th
44、e great forest is A desolate. B hushful. C dismal. D barren. 6.I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed it on all sides, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children c
45、ame dancing in, singly, or in pairs, till a whole troop of ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but little clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound
46、; and their fates, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, a where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked
47、 entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seemed conceived there and then out of the joy of beingdancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehea
48、rsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to the fashioning of their performance; and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from the clever white turnings of their limbs.Which of the following statements contains a metaphor A ., and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces. B ., which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water lily. C That dark, t