大学英语B-9

2011-4 大学英语B 真题练习9I. 交际用语1. – I do apologize for not being able to attend your birthday party.- _______. We’ll get together later.a. Go aheadb. Don’t worryc. That’s rightd. Don’t mention it2. – How good the news is for you?- _________.a. Y ou are kind to tell meb. I’m glad to see thatc. It’s kind of you to say sod. It’s nice to hear from you3. – May I use your bike for a moment?- __________.a. It’s wellb. It doesn’t matterc. By all meansd. I have no idea4. – Do you mind my smoking here?- __________.a. No, thanksb. Y es, I doc. Y es. I’d rather notd. Goos idea5. – Thank you for inviting me.- __________.a. I really had a happy timeb. Oh, it’s too latec. Thank you for comingd. Oh, so slowly?参考答案：1—5： b c c b cII. 阅读理解Passage OneThree men traveling on a train began a conversation about the world's greatest wonders."In my opinion," the first man said, "the Egyptian pyramids（埃及金字塔）are the world's greatest wonder. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still standing. And remember: the people who built them had only simple tools. They did not have the kind of machinery that builders and engineers have today.""I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful," the second man said, "but I do not think they are the greatest wonder. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. They have taken people to the moon and brought them back safely. In seconds, they carry out mathematical calculations that would take a person a hundred years to do."He turned to the third man and asked, "What do you think is the greatest wonder in the world？"The third man thought for a long time, and then he said, "Well, I agree that the pyramids are wonderful, and I agree that computers are wonderful, too. However，in my opinion, the most wonderful thing in the world is this thermos."And he took a thermos out of his bag and held it up.The other two men were very surprised. "A thermos?" they exclaimed. "But that's a simple thing.""Oh, no，it's not, "the third man said. "In the winter you put in a hot drink and it stays hot. In the summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the thermos know whether it's winter or summer？"6. The underlined word ―thermos‖ in Chinese means ―保温瓶‖.A. TB. F7. That the three men could not agree on what the world’s greatest wonder was because they all had different idea.A. TB. F8. The first man thought the pyraminds were the most wonderful thing in the world because they had been built with very simple tools.A. TB. F9. The third man though a themos was the most wonderful thing in the fworld because it cost less than a computer.A. TB. F10. The third man was not very clever because he could not think of anything to say.A. TB. F参考答案：A A A B BPassage TwoWhen John and Victoria Falls arrived in New Y ork City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses.What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couple – people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Y oung people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture that they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buyi ng new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.11. Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses? ____________A. Selling home furnishings.B. Renting furnished apartments.C. Selling used furniture.D. Renting home furnishings.12. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture? ____________A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new.B. Because it saves them a lot of money.C. Because it saves them much trouble and money.D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.13. What can you infer from the passage? ____________A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.C. Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture.D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.14. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? ____________A. Rent or Buy?B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings.C. Furnished Apartments.D. A New Idea.15. Y oung people liked renting home furniture in that __________.A. They have less moneyB. They don’t wan t to buy old furnitureC. The new furniture is of good qualityD. They don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture参考答案：11-15: D C B B D （如有差异，请以教材答案为准）III．词汇与结构16. John succeeded ________ what he wanted.a. to getb. to gettingc. in gettingd. and getting17. After walking hurriedly for half an hour, I wanted to drink ________.a. something coldb. cold somethingc. something with coldd. something to be cold18. _________ these houours, he received a sum of money.a. Exceptb. Butc. Besidesd. Outside19. Professor Smith promised to look _____ my paper, that is, to read it carefully before the thesis defense.a. afterb. overc. ond. into20. Our house is about a mile away from the railway station and there are not many houses _____.a. in betweenb. far apartc. among themd. from each other参考答案：16—20：c a c b aIV. 完形填空Human language is a system of symbols. No other animal has a complex symbolic language that must be learned. Animal language is largely instinctive, while basic human language is learned speech, composed __21_sounds that symbolize things, ideas, actions, and the like.We learn to read, often with considerable effort, by noticing or being taught that groups of letters stand for the sounds that we already know 22 __to speak. We learn to write,with even greater effort, by learning to form the letters, 23 _ are symbols of sounds, and to put them together on paper so that others can read what we ―say‖.Since human language is a form of human behavior, there is nothing absolute about it. It has 24 slowly throughout human history and will continue to develop. In the English language there are perhaps 600,000 25. Possibly more, but most of them are known only to specialists and rarely used.21. A. how B. which C. developed D. of E. sounds22. A. how B. which C. developed D. of E. sounds23. A. how B. which C. developed D. of E. sounds24. A. how B. which C. developed D. of E. sounds25. A. how B. which C. developed D. of E. sounds参考答案：D A B C EV. 英译汉26. Y ou’d better do that again.27. I’m having a headache now.28. China will build up a space station in ten years.29. The most common samples of inorganic matericals are the gases of the atmosphere, water, rocks, etc.参考答案：26. 那件事你最好再做一遍。