大学英语B模拟五及参考答案

大学英语B模拟五第一部分：英语知识运用（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）此部分共有10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，并用铅笔将答题卡上的相应字母涂黑。

示例[A] [B] [C] [D]1― Excuse me, how soon does this train leave?― ___________________.A. It leaves every half an hour.B. It leaves in ten minutes.C. The next trains leaves at tenD. There is one at four2. ― Well, how was your trip?― __________________.A. It was very smooth and fast.B. I got back yesterday.C. I don’t know yet.D. One moment please. I’ll check.3. ― Hi, how are th ings with you?― __________________.A. Yes, beautiful.B. Yes, they’re fine. Thank you.C. Oh, not too bad, thanks.D. It was great, thanks.4. ― Excuse me, but smoking isn’t allowed here.― __________________.A. Oh, sorry. I didn’t know.B. That’s all ri ght.C. Yes, we certainly do.D. No, not at all.5. ― Hello, is that Mary speaking? This is Jane.― __________________.A. I’m not sure yet.B. That’s ok.C. Hello, Jane. Here’s Mary.D. Thank you, Jane.6. ― I wish you many happy returns of the day.― __________________.A. Thank you.B. Are you?C. You’re welcome.D. No trouble at all.7. ― How is weather today?― __________________.A. It’s raining now.B. Yes, it is. It is raining hard.C. They are usually rather cold.D. It rains a great deal in this season.8. ― I’d like to mail this package.― __________________.A. Here you are.B. Do you have any letters?C. Yes, you can.D. How do you want to send it?9. ― Excuse me, can I use your telephone?― __________________.A. Not at all.B. Yes, how much?C. Oh, I see.D. No, it’s broken.10. ― I’d like to look at your sweaters, if I could.― __________________.A. They are too expensive.B. Certainly. Any particular style?C. No, you can’t.D. No, it’s heavy for this season.第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）?? ?此部分共有4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，并用铅笔将答题卡上的相应字母涂黑。

示例[A] [B] [C] [D]Passage 1During Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, his troops were battling in the middle of a small town in that endless wintry land, when he was separated from his men. A group of Russian soldiers saw him and began chasing him through the twisting streets. Napoleon ran for his life into a little furrier’s shop. As Napoleon entered the shop, he saw the furrier and cried, “Save me, save me! Where can I hide?” The furrier said, “Quick, under the big pile of furs in the corner,” and he covered Napoleon up with many furs.No sooner had he finished than the Russian soldiers burst in the door, shouting “Where is he? We saw him come in.” Despite the furrier’s protests, they tore the shop apart trying to find Napoleon. But they didn’t find him and left.After some time, Napoleon came out from under the furs, unharmed, just as his personal guards came in the door. The furrier turned to Napoleon and said, “Excuse me for asking such a great man this question, but what was it like to be under those furs, knowing that the next moment would surely be your last?”Napoleon drew himself up to his full height and said to the furrier angrily, “How could you ask such a question of me, the Emperor Napoleon! Guards, take this rude man out, blindfold him and execute him. I myself will give the command to fire!”The guards took the poor furrier out, stood him up against a wall and blindfolded him. The furrier could see nothing, but he could hear the movements of the guards as they prepared their rifles. He trembled. Then he heard Napoleon clear his throat and call out slowly, “Ready … aim…” At that moment, knowing that he would die, a feeling he couldn’t describe came to him and tears ran d own his cheeks.After a long period of silence, the furrier heard footsteps approaching him and theblindfold was taken down from his eyes. He saw Napoleon’s eyes looking deeply into his own --- eyes that seemed to see into every dusty corner of his being. Then Napoleon said softly, “Now you know.”Napoleon ran for his life because _________________________.A.he was followed by Russian soldiersB.he couldn’t find his menC.his personal guards were not with himD.he saw a little furrier’s shopThe Russian soldiers rushed in as soon as __________________________. A.a furrier saw NapoleonB.the furrier said to Napoleon that he could hide in a pile of fursC.Napoleon hid in a big pile of fursD.Napoleon entered the furrier’s shopWhen he came out from under the furs, Napoleon was _________________________.A.thankful to the furrierB. not harmed at allC. noticed by Russian guardsD. angry about Russian soldiers’ search14. Tears ran down the furrier’s cheeks because ___________________________.A. he thought he was to be killed at onceB. he heard the movements of Napoleon’s guardsC. he heard the sound of a rifleD. he was blindfolded and couldn’t see anything15. Napoleon answered the furrier’s question by __________________________.A. blindfolding himB. by putting him in a similar situation he himself had experienced just beforeC. scolding himD. shooting himPassage 2Most Americans believe that good education is quite necessary to democracy and social progress. Even during their colonial time the settlers attached great importance to setting up schools for their children, because these puritans were firm believers in education. They tried hard to establish enough schools for their children. The schools were not only to teach children how to read, write and calculate but also to train clergymen. The first college, Harvard, was set up in Massachusetts in 1636. Soon after, the colonial government passed a law requiring every town of more than 40 families to have a school and school master. By the mid-eighteenth century several well-known colleges were founded, including Columbia in New York and Princeton in New Jersey. They were used to train young people.Education did not develop very fast in the South where big plantation owners did not want to build schools for the children of the poor workers and slaves. Children from rich families usually went to England for higher education. This was one the reasons why the South developed more slowly than the North.Colonial schools laid the foundation for America educational system in which all the American schools were left to the care of communities or local authority. Compulsory education has been carried out and primary and secondary education has been open to American children free of charge for many years.16. Ed ucation in most Americans’ eyes is ________________________.A. quite necessary for social development and democracyB. important only for the earliest settlersC. good as they have many famous universitiesD. the basis of working hard17. Which of the following was not a task of school?A. To train clergymenB. To teach children how to read and writeC. To teach children mathD. To send children to British universities18. The south America developed slowly because ________________________.A. children in the south went to England for higher educationB. there were not many rich people in the southC. not all rich children in the south had chances to go to school in EnglandD. education developed quite slowly in the south19. American educational system was built _________________________.A. on the basis of colonial educational systemB. after some famous colleges were foundedC. by churches as they hoped to train more clergymenD. when many children from rich families went to England20. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. Princeton University was founded around 1750sB. Colombia University was built in 1636C. Harvard University was founded by the American governmentD. A law was passed by the American government that a school should be built in every townPassage 3One of the most important skills in reading is the knowledge of words. Since Vocabulary Building and Word Study, another book in this series, is devoted to vocabulary development, we are not going to deal with this skill directly, but you should be aware do some basic facts. The number of words you know determines the difficulty and complexity of the material you can read and understand. If you have an extremely limited reading vocabulary, you will be able to read only very simple material. For example, children just beginning to read in first grade must use books that only have a few dozen words in them. As they progress through school their reading vocabulary keeps increasing until they are adults. Adults typically have reading vocabularies of over 50,000 words.Failure to develop an extensive reading vocabulary will definitely hold you back in your efforts to improve comprehension. Most people learn new words by encountering them in reading or conversation, where the meaning is usually clear from the context.A few words are learned by looking them up in the dictionary.A good way to expand your vocabulary is to read a lot, especially in different areas. In that way you will find many new words, which are often explained by the author. One of the main purposes of a beginning textbook is to explain the language of thefield about which it is written. Thus you can expect to increase your vocabulary a lot if you read a textbook in a field that is new to you.If you feel that vocabulary is a problem for you, you may wish to do something systematic about it. There are many good books designed to help develop vocabulary, including the one in this series.21. This passage mainly discusses __________________________.A. the importance of developing vocabulary and how to expand itB. systematic ways to develop vocabularyC. the degree of vocabulary difficultyD. how to read a text in an interesting field22. The difficulty of a reading material is partly decidedby________________________ according to the passage.A. how often you do readingB. how much vocabulary you haveC. the speed of progress readers make in schoolD. whether you look difficult words up in the dictionary23. This passage is ____________________________.A. part of a lecture on readingB. an introduction to a book on how to develop vocabularyC. a news report about how much vocabulary should be mastered by readersD. taken from the book entitled Vocabulary Building and Word Study24. One of the factors that prevent readers from reading fast is______________________.A. looking words up in the dictionaryB. a limited mastery of vocabularyC. new words explained by the authorD. reading materials in different areas25. Which of the statements is NOT true according to the passage?A. The passage is taken from a book on how to expand vocabulary in a systematic wayB. There is no satisfactory way to expand vocabularyC. For beginners, it is not proper to read books with too many new wordsD. Vocabulary keeps increasing until learners are adultsPassage 4A nineteenth-century French dramatist remarked that the only difference between animals and human beings is that people drink when they are not thirsty and make love in any season. The sociologist’s defini tion of the difference is more scientific: only human beings have the ability for creating and transmitting culture. More than any other species, human animals are able to surpass their biological limitations by sharing ideas and passing on what they learn to future generations. All animals, including human beings, have certain problems in common. In order to survive as species, they must find a home, get food and provide for their young. Animals are guided by instincts that enable them to cope with these problems of existence. They respond to their environment is a fixed predictable manner: beavers build dams as homes, lions hunt for antelopes for food, and birds build nests to protect their young. Should these solutions turn out to be inadequate, animals for the most part will still go on making the same responses to the same problems. It is true that much of the behavior of higher animals is learned through direct experience. As everyone knows, dogs can be taught to overcome their instinctive dislike of cats, and parrots often learn new calls. In some cases animals have also been known to teach their offspring what they themselves have learned. Nevertheless, human beings are unique in their far greater ability to learn from experiences, to create new solutions to old problems, and most important, to use language to transmit what they have learned to future generations. While animal societies must rely on biologically inherited methods of dealing with their environment, human societies have the far greater advantage of a socially inherited culture.26. From a sociological point of view, the difference between humans and animals is __________________________.A. humans drink when they are not thirstyB. humans must find a homeC. humans can pass on their culture from generation to generationD. humans know how to bring up their young27. One of the problems that both humans and animals must face is__________________________.A. they have to overcome their biological disadvantagesB. they have to raise their young in whatever living conditionsC. they must share ideas when in troubleD. they must find new solutions to difficult problems28. In face of problems of existence, animals __________________________.A. can think and find a plausible solutionB. only respond repeatedly in the fixed wayC. can pass on the information to their youngD. young animals can think of better ways to solve them29. Beavers can build dams as home _____________________________.A. because they can learn from each otherB. in an instinctive wayC. after many failuresD. after they follow other beavers’ ways of building dams30. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. Only humans can learn from experienceB. Humans have much greater ability to solve problems with new methodsC. Humans have more biological advantages than animalsD. Humans and animals have nothing in common第三部分：词汇与结构（共25小题；每小题1分，满分25分）第一节：此小节共有15个未完成的句子，针对每个句子中未完成的部分有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，并用铅笔将答题卡上的相应字母涂黑。