大学英语B机考模拟试卷(3)

大学英语机考B模拟试卷（三）

第一部分：交际用语（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）

1. ——Many thanks.

——______________.

A. It doesn’t matter.

B. Never mind.

C. It’s my pleasure.

D. The same to you.

2. ——I’m awfully sorry.

——_______________.

A. Don’t mention it.

B. That’s right.

C. All right.

D. That’s all right.

3. ——How do you do?

——_______________.

A. Very well.

B. How do you do?

C. I’m a doctor.

D. Nice to have known you.

4. ——Sorry to trouble you.

——_________________.

A. It’s a pleasure.

B. I don’t think so.

C. No, I don’t mind at all.

D. Never mind.

5. ——Do you mind if I smoke here?

——______________________.

A. Tha t’s all right.

B. Of course not.

C. OK.

D. Yes, please.

第二部分：阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

Passage 1

John was thirty years old and he had very long hair. He lived in a big city. But one year he did not find any work there, so he went to a small town and began to look for work there. He went to a lot of places, but nobody wanted him.

Then he met an old friend. This man said to him, “People in this town do not like long hair. Why can’t you go to a barber? He can cut a lot of your hair off. Then you can get some work.” So John went to a barber.

The barber began. He cut and cut for a very long time and then he said to John:

“Were you in the army for a few years before?”

“Yes, I was,” John answered. “How did you know, and why did you ask that?”

“Because I have found your cap in the hair,” the barber said.

6. John was a man with _______.

A. thirty years

B. long hair

C. a job

D. a cap

7. John did not find any work in ____.

A. a small town

B. the barber shop

C. a big city

D. the country

8. John went to ________ to look for work.

A. a small town

B. a big town

C. a big city

D. the barber shop

9. _________ told him to go to a barber.

A. people

B. John’s parents

C. A barber

D. John’s friend

10. John couldn’t find work probably because _________.

A. he were in the army

B. he had very long hair

C. he lived in a big city

D. he was too old

Passage 2

A few years ago it was common to speak of a generation gap between young people and their elders. Parents said that children did not respect and listen to them, while children said that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared? Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many people argue that it is built into every part of our society.

One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own ways of life. In a more traditional society, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and like, and often to continue the family jobs. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose jobs different from those of their parents.

In our society, parents often ecp0ect their children to do better than they did, to find better jobs, to make more money and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, that is another cause of the gap between them. Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other.

Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is the third cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, senior people are valued for their knowledge, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become out of date. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities. No doubt, the generation gap will continue in American life for some time to come.

11. The first paragraph tells us that ______.