考研《英语一》四川省凉山彝族自治州昭觉县2023年高分冲刺试卷含解析.doc

考研《英语一》四川省凉山彝族自治州昭觉县2023年高分冲刺试卷 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) For most people, graduation day is exciting. My graduation day, 1 was not. I remember that weekend two years ago. My family and my friends had come to watch our class walk across that 2 . But like everyone in my graduating class, I had watched the?economy 3 from bad to worse during my senior year. We graduates had 4 but very limited prospects(前景). Numerous applications were 5 and I knew that the next day, when my lease(租约)ended，I would no longer have a place to 6 “home”. The weeks 7 were not easy. I drove to California to find work. But what I thought would 8 me a week dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself 9 I was before. Days 10 like weeks, weeks like months and those many months seemed 11 . The most 12 part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn’t seem to make any 13 . Then I began to write. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer – a little brighter. Something about writing gave me 14 . I put my frustration into a children’s 15 , one story of which was about a(n) 16 , a little fish, who, fighting in a “river”, 17 to give up his dream. I kept on writing. And then one day, 18 any sort of writing degree or contracts in the writing world – just a lot of hard work and perseverance – I was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things began to be in 19 soon. I was offered a second book deal. Then a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after. The lesson of the story: Work hard, give it time and don’t give up. Often our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream. All we need is the 20 to push beyond t