机考大学英语B模拟题
第一部分：交际用语
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，请你从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. —
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A. That’s all right
B. I don’t car e
C. I’m sad
D. No, not at all
2. — Sir, if I can’t follow the partner, what should I say?
—You can say ―____________________________‖
A. Can you say it for a second time?
B. Pardon?
C. I don’t understand anything.
D. What you said was nonsense.
3. —Why didn’t you join us last weekend?
—____________________________.
A. Excuse me, my friend visited me last weekend.
B. Sorry. I have an unexpected visitor last weekend.
C. Ha…ha , I don’t like it.
D. Fine, I don’t want to go out.
4. —_________________________
—Thanks, I’m just checking things on.
A. May I help you?
B.What are you doing?
C.Why are you here?
D.What are you checking here?
5. —How do you do? Glad to see you.
—_________________________
A. How are you? Me too.
B. How do you do? Glad t meet you.
C. I am fine, thank you. And you?
D. Nice, how are you?
第二部分：阅读理解
此部分共有2篇短文，每篇短文后有5个问题，每个问题后有4个选项，请你从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In the United States elementary education begins at the age of six. At this stage nearly all the teachers are women, mostly married. The atmosphere is usually very friendly, and the teachers have now accepted the idea that the important thing is to make the children happy and interested. The old authoritarian (要绝对服从的) methods of education were discredited (不被认可) rather a long time ago --- so much so that many people now think that they have gone too far in the direction of trying to make children happy and interested rather than giving them actual instruction.
The social education of young children tries to make them accept the idea that human beings in a society need to work together for their common good. So the emphasis is on co-operation rather than competition throughout most of this process. This may seem curious, in view of the fact that American society is highly competitive; however, the need for making people sociable in this sense has come to be regarded as one of the functions of education. Most Americans do grow up with competitive ideas, and obviously quite a few as criminals, but it is not fair to say that the educational system fails. It probably does succeed in making most people sociable and ready to help one another both in material ways and through kindness and friendliness.
1. According to the passage, the U.S. elementary education is supposed to make children__________.
A. sensible and sensitive
B. competitive and interested
C. curious and friendly
D. happy and co-operative
2. Some Americans complain about elementary schools because they think__________.
A. children are reluctant to help each other
B. schools lay too much emphasis on co-operation
C. children should grow up with competitive ideas
D. schools give little actual instruction to children
3. The author's attitude towards American education can be best described as__________.
A. favorable
B. negative
C. tolerant
D. unfriendly
4. The American educational system emphasizes__________.
A. material wealth
B. competition
C. co-operation
D. personal benefit
5. The word "sociable" (Line 8, Paragraph 2) most probably means__________.
A. fond of talking freely
B. friendly with other people
C. concerned about social welfare
D. happy at school
Passage 2
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts (干旱) and floods.
Unfortunately, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire(帝国). It gained the empire, but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced by flood and starvation. Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade villagers to see this. The villagers want wood to cook their food with; and they can earn money by selling wood. They are usually too lazy to plant and look after the trees. So, unless
