大学英语B统考仿真模拟题十二

大学英语B仿真模拟题十二

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四个选项中选出最佳答案。

1. — Thanks for your help.

— ______________

A. My pleasure. B. Never mind.

C. Quite right. D. Don’t thank me.

2. — Haven’t seen you for ages! What are you busy doing now?

— ______________

A. I hate the weather here.

B. My hair is getting a bit longer.

C. Yeah, thanks for coming.

D. I am working part time in a bookshop, you know.

3. — It’s rather cold in here. Do you mind if I close the window?

— ______________

A. Yes, please. B. No, go ahead.

C. Sure, please. D. I don’t like it.

4. — How often do you go dancing?

— ______________

A. I will go dancing tomorrow. B. Yesterday.

C. Every other day. D. I've been dancing for a year.

5. — You know, I have three kids now.

— ______________

A. Well, I’ve grown a mustache.

B. That’s terrific!

C. Say, you’ve really changed your hair.

D. Well, I gave up drinking.

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，每篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A, B, C, D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

Passage 1

Homesick is a compound word (复合词) made up of “home” and “sick”. You know what each

word means on its own，of course. But think about what the words mean when they are used

together. “Homesick” means “longing for home, unhappy away from home”. In other words,

it means sick for home.

Now think for a minute about the word “seasick”. If you change the word “home” in the

definition to the word “sea”, would the definition fit “seasick”? Does seasick mean “longing for

sea; unhappy away from sea”? It means something quite different. Seasick means “sick because

of the sea”. When you are homesick, the only place you want to be is at home. When you are

seasick, the last place you want to be is at sea.

Have you ever heard of a person being heartsick? Heartsick does not mean that something is wrong with a person's heart. It means “terribly disappointed and sad”. People are heartsick when

they are hurt down deep inside, or when they feel as if their hearts are broken.

And so, when you are carsick，you are “made sick by the movement of a car on the road”. You

are sick because of the car, not sick for it.

You can see, then, that not all compound words are what they seem at first glance. But, on the

other hand, we have such compound words as “handshake”, “handstand”, and “handbag”. You

may want to write definitions for them.

6. The word “seasick” means _____________.

A. to want very much to go to the sea B. what has nothing to do with the sea

C. to be sick because of the sea D. that the sea is terrible

7. When we say a person is heartsick, we mean that _____________.

A. his heart is broken B. his heart needs testing

C. there’s something wrong with his heart D. he’s terribly disappointed and sad

8. “The last place you want to be” is ______________.

A. where you want to be most B. where you want to be least

C. where you go the last D. the last place you go to

9. The definitions of “handbag” and “handshake” are ______________.

A. easy to know B. difficult to know

C. impossible to learn D. unnecessary to learn

10. The writer wanted to tell us that _______________.

A. there are many compound words in English

B. the building of compound words is interesting

C. the definitions of some compound words are hard to guess

D. not all the compound words mean what they seem to be

Passage 2

The French Revolution broke out in 1789. At the time France was in a crisis. The government was

badly run and people’s lives were miserable. King Louis XIV tried to control the national

parliament and raise more taxes. But his effort failed. He ordered his troops to Versailles. The

people thought that Louis intended to put down the Revolution by force. On July 14, 1789, they

stormed and took the Bastille, where political prisoners were kept. Ever since that day, July 14

has been the French National Day. Louis tried to flee the country in 1792 to get support from

Austria and Prussia. However, he was caught and put in prison. In September 1792, the monarchy

was abolished. In the same year, Louis was executed（处死）. A few months later his wife, Marie

also had her head cut off. The Revolution of France had frightened the other kings of Europe.

Armies from Austria and Prussia began to march against France. The French raised republican

armies to defend the nation. The Revolution went through a period of terror. Thousands of

people lost their lives. In the end, power passed to Napoleon Bonaparte.