大学英语-B-阅读理解完型填空训练题目

大学英语 B 阅读理解和完型填空训练题目

——大学英语网考系列之五

本系列资料均来自网络世界，仅供老师们为学生进行辅导参考使用。切不可当作最后一赌来押题用。英语学习是个漫长的工夫，“熟”方能生巧。临阵磨枪不快也光，那基本是歪理邪说。参加考试需要的是“硬”道理。让应试教育尽快见鬼去吧……

Passage 1

No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut ope n by a surged外科医生）and part of it taken out．Today，however，we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation．The sick person falls into a kind of sleep，and when he awakes，the operation is finished．But these happy conditions are fairly new ．It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pa．in

Long ago，operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything．The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him．He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off，and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watche．d

Soon after 1770，Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called “laughing gas”．Laughing gas became known in America．Young men and women went to parties to try

it ．Most of them spent their time laughing ，but one man at a party，Horace Wells，noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas．He decided to make an experiment on himse．lf He asked a friend to help him．

Wells took some of the gas，and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth．Wells felt no pain at all．

As he didn't know enough about laughing gas，he gave a man less gas than he should have．The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled ou．t

Wells tried again，but this time he gave too much of the gas，and the man died．Wells never forgot this terrible event．

1. It is ______ since a man being operated felt all the pain

A．a few more years B．not long

C．few years D．two thousand years

2. Long ago, when the sick man was operated on he _________ .

A．could feel nothing B．could not want anything

C．could feel all the pain D．could do anything

3. Using the laughi ng gas the people did not seem to ________ .

A. be afraid of anything

B. feel pain

C．want to go to the parties D．be ill

4．If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on, he .

A. felt nothing

B.felt very comfortable （舒服的）

C. still felt pa in

D. would die

5. One who took too much of the laugh ing gas _____ .

A. would laugh all the time

B. would die

C . would n ever feel p ain

D . would be very calm

参考答案：CBCB

Passage 2

Moder n zoos are very differe nt from zoos that were built fifty years ago. At that time, zoos were places where people could go to see ani mals from many parts of the world. The animals lived in cages that were made of concrete混凝土） with iron bars, cages that were easy to keep clea n. Unfortun ately for ani mals, the cages were small and impossible to hide in. The zoo en vir onment was anything but n atural. Although the zoo keepers took good care of the ani mals and fed them well, many of the ani mals did not thrive （茁壮成长）;They behaved in stra nge ways, and they ofte n became ill. In modern zoos, people can see animals in more natural habitats （家园）.The animal was give n more freedom in large areas so that they can live as they would in n ature. Even the appearanceof zoos has changed. Trees and grass grow in the cages, and streams of water flow through the areas that the animals live in. There are few bars; there is ofte n only a deep ditch （沟渠）,filled with water, surro unding an area where several species of ani mals live together as they would n aturally.

注：本段文字很方便设计完形填空题目，可以让学生认真阅读熟悉其内容。

Passage 3

Nowadays most people decide quite early what kind of work they would do.

When I was at school, we had to choose 一1__ when we were fifteen. I chose

scie ntific subjects. “In the future, scie ntists will earn a lot of mon ey, ” my p

__ 2__ I tried to lear n physics and chemistry, but in the end I decided that I __ 3__ a

scientist. It was a long time before I told my parents that I wasn' t happy at school. “I

didn ' th ink you were, ”said my mother. “ 4 , ” said my father. “ Wellthe best

thing to do now is to look for a job. ”

I talked about it with my friends Frank and Lesley. __ 5— of them could suggest