大学英语B12
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一、交际英语
1、- Is it possible for you to work late tonight?
- _______
A：I like it.
B：I'll do that.
C：I'd love to.
D：I think so.
答案：D
解析：询问“你今晚要工作到很晚吗”，回答表示肯定。
2、- That's a beautiful dress you have on!
- __________
A：Oh, thanks. I got it yesterday.
B：Sorry, it's too cheap.
C：Hey you can have it.
D：See you later.
答案：A
解析：“你穿的这裙子真漂亮”，回答表示“谢谢，这是我昨天买的”。
3、- Hi, welcome back! Have a nice trip?
- ____________.
A：Oh, fantastic! Fresh air, and sunshine every day
B：Come on, I've got lots of fun
C：By the way, I don't like Saturdays
D：Well, I'll look forward to your phone call
答案：A
解析：询问“旅行愉快吗”，回答表示“太精彩了，每天都有清新的空气，灿烂的阳光”。
4、- Haven't seen you for ages! What are you busy with 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.
答案：D
解析：询问“多年没见！你现在在忙些什么”，回答表示“我在一家书店兼职”。
5、- Marilyn, I'm afraid I have to be leaving now.
- ____________
A：That sounds wonderful.
B：Oh, so early?
C：Not at all.
D：Good luck!
答案：B
解析：“Marilyn，恐怕我现在要离开了”，回答表示“这么早就走了”。
二、阅读理解
1、Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem. One of them, for example, was the great Italian artist, Leonardo Da Vinci. In the sixteenth century he made designs for machines that would fly, but they were never built.
Throughout history, other less famous men had wanted to fly. An example was a man in England 800 years ago. He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into air from a tall building. He did not fly very far. Instead, he fell to the ground and broke every bone in his body.
The first real steps took place in France, in 1783. Two brothers, the Montgolfiers, made a very large "hot air balloon". They knew that hot air rises. Why not fill a balloon with it? The balloon was made of cloth and paper. In September of that year, the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon. They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a chicken. We do not know how they felt about the trip. But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed safely. Two months later, two men did the same thing. They rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind. Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they traveled about eight kilometers. (1)、Leonardo Da Vinci made designs for flying machines.
A：T
B：F
答案：A
解析：第一段就说了他设计了可以飞的机器，只是没有生产出来。故描述正确。
(2)、Eight hundred years ago an Englishman made a kind of flying machine.
A：T
B：F
答案：B
解析：结合第一题，是Vinci设计的可以飞的机器，不是那个英国人。根据第二段也可得出答案。
(3)、In fact, the Englishman who tried to fly lost his life.
A：T
B：F
答案：A
解析：第二段最后一句说了他从大楼顶端掉下来粉身碎骨了。描述正确。
(4)、The very first air passengers in the balloon were two Frenchmen.
A：T
B：F
答案：B
解析：第三段说了最早的两个乘客是一只鸡和一只羊。不是人。
(5)、The two Frenchmen rose above Paris in November 1783.
A：T
B：F
答案：A
解析：第三段倒数第三局给出了答案，两个月后两个法国人就乘热气球在巴黎上空。
2、A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man - the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
This attitude toward manual (体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously (豪华地) furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward; furthermore, the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes.
A professional may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.
（1）、From Para. 1, we know that in America _________.
A.people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man
B.people can always rise to the top through their won efforts
C.college professors win great respect from common workers
D.people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors
答案：A
解析：文章第一段第一句即陈述了美国人对于依靠双手自力更生的人很是尊敬。故选A。
（2）、According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _________.
A.servants in America are hard to get
B.she takes pride in what she can do herself
C.she can hardly afford servants
D.It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
答案：B
解析：女主人家境很好，但是却甘愿自己动手给客人做饭，原因即是美国人以自己动手为傲，与全文主旨一脉相承，故选B。
（3）、The underlined expression "wait on table" in Para. 2 means "_________".
A.work in a furniture shop
B.keep accounts for a bar
C.wait to lay the table
D.serve customers in a restaurant
答案：D
解析：离家上大学的儿子也一样自立，在餐厅打工刷完，可从全文倒数第三行直接看到答案。（4）、The author's attitude towards manual labor is _______.
A.positive
B.negative
C.humorous
D.critical
答案：A
解析：纵观全文，作者对待人力劳动的态度也是积极的，意在倡导人们学习自力更生的精神。故选A。
（5）、Which of the following could be the best title of the passage? ________
A.A Respectable Self-made Family
B.American Attitude toward Manual Labor
C.Characteristics of American Culture
D.The Development of Manual Labor
答案：B
解析：文章全文陈述的都是关于美国人对待人力劳动的态度，自力更生，故选B。
三、词汇与语法
1、Father made his son ________ by the door.
A.stands
B.stood
C.standing
D.stand
答案：D
解析：make somebody do something，“使某人做某事”，应填stand的动词原形，选D。句
意“父亲让儿子站在门边”。
2、When I was a child, I enjoyed ________ picture-books.
A.read
B.to read
C.reads
D.reading
答案：D
解析：enjoy doing something，固定搭配，“喜欢做某事”。句意“我小时候喜欢阅读图书”。
3、______ did he know what had happened during the two months when he was away.
A.A little
B.Little
C.A few
D.Few
答案：B
解析：此题考查否定词置于句首的倒装句。题目中的句子为部分倒装句，要有否定词置于句首，排除A、C选项，而few用于修饰可数名词，排除D选项，选B。
4、Not until the meeting was over ____ that he had made a mistake in his speech.
A.he realized
B.did he realize
C.he has realized
D.has he realized
答案：B
解析：此题考查倒装句的运用。Not until放在句首时，主语谓语要倒装，四个选项中只有B 是倒装句，选B。句意“直到会议结束他才意识到自己的发言有个错误”。
5、"It was cold yesterday." "_______ it was."
A.Nor
B.Neither
C.So
D.Such
答案：C
解析：so it is 表示进一步的强调或是对话中表示对对方的肯定和认同，“事情确实是这样”。选C。
四、完形填空
Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four parts, ___1___ a part. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.
Your ship goes into ___2___ time part every day if you make a five-day journey
across the Atlantic Ocean. As you go into each part, the time ___3___ one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you let it ahead. Each day of your journey has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.
If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you ___4___ the International Date Line. This is the point where a new day ___5___. When you go across the line, you change your calendar one full day, back or ahead.
A：a different
B：one hour
C：cross
D：changes
E：begins
答案：
1、B
2、A
3、D
4、C
5、E
解析：a different“不同的”；one hour“一个小时”；cross“越过”；change“改变”；begin“开始”。1、“地球分为24时区，一个时区为一小时”；2、“你每天的行程将步入一个不同的时区，如果你进行一个5天的跨越大西洋旅行”，选出A；3、“你每进入一个时区，时间就改变一个小时”；4、“如果你坐船穿越太平洋，你将会跨越国际日界线”，选出D；5、“国际日界线是新的一天的标识”，选出E。
五、英译汉
1、Can you express yourself clearly in English?
答案：你能用英语清楚地表达自己的意思吗？
2、I am very familiar with his name.
答案：我很熟悉他的名字。
3、Tom likes playing basket-ball but he can't play well.
答案：汤姆喜欢打篮球，但他打得不好。
4、How do you spell your last name?
答案：你的姓是如何拼写的？
5、We are short of time and money.
答案：我资金和时间都缺。
六、写作
Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。
My Hobby
My hobby is fishing. I am fond of going fishing, for it is both interesting and iastructive-It tempers my willpower. Last Sunday I went fishing with my friend, He Ping.An hour passed. I did not catch a single fish. On the other side of the stream, He Ping had caught several fish, one of which was very big.
“How comes it that you catch fish casily while it is so difficult for me?" I asked. "it's easy. Only you need Io be patient." He Ping answered. "Make sure that you lift the fishing rod when the whole flat has sunk. I'm sure a fish will greet you on the hook."I did what he said. To my delight I caught a fish. Grlnning, I took it off the hook.
This gave me a great revelation(启示):Stamina(毅力) is what we need to achieve success. And it is more important to young people who usually lack it.
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