统考大学英语B

统考大学英语B

形成性考核一

第一部分:交际用语(共5小题，每小题3分，满分15分)

此部分共有5个未完成的对话，针对每个对话中未完成的部分有4

个选项，请从A, B, C, D四个选项中选出正确选项。

1. — What does Peter do?

— ____________.

A. He’s good at fixing things

B. He can speak good

German

C. He does the washing-up after supper

D. He’s a n English teacher

2. —Hey, you haven’t been acting like yourself. Everything OK?

— ____________.

A. I’m fine, thanks

B. Sure, it is

C. That’s good

D. It’s OK

3. — Have you finished your first paper? — ____________. Just half of it. How about you? A .Not at all B. Not likely

C. Not a bit

D. Not yet 4. — Is it OK if I take this seat? — Sorry, ____________.

A. here you are

B. take it

C. it’s taken

D. never mind

5. —Do you mind my opening the window? It’s a bit hot in here.

— ___________, as a matter of fact.

A. Go ahead

B. Yes, my pleasure

C. Yes, I do

D. Come on

第二部分:阅读理解(共10小题，每小题3分，满分30分)

此部分共有2篇短文，在第一篇短文后有5个正误判断题，从每题后

的两个选项中选出正确答案;在第二篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个

问题后的A, B, C, D四个选项中选出正确选项。

Passage 1

Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal the bell on his neighbor’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of the bell and pulled hard. The

bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home. Then he sat down to think, ―I must do something about the noise,‖ he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. ―Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.‖ The next day he went to the door of his neighbor, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbor came running out.

“Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson,‖ the angry man shouted. And he

hit the thief on the nose.

The foolish thief did not know how the neighbor found out he was stealing the bell. ―Why did he come out just then?‖ he wondered.

6. The thief was trying to get a door with a bell on it. A. T B. F

7. The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be

safe for him to steal the doorbell.

A. T

B. F

8. The neighbor ran out just because he knew his doorbell was being stolen.

A. T

B. F

9. The neighbor hit the thief to punish him for stealing. A. T B. F

10. The thief thought the neighbor c ouldn’t hear the noise the bell made.

A. T

B. F

统考大学英语B

形成性考核二

Passage 2

How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we

call words.

the things they bring The power of words, then, lies in their associations –