远程网络教育大学英语B统考题库4

一、交际英语

1.- How is your headache? - _______ B.Better now.

2.- This box is too heavy for me to carry it upstairs. - ______ B.I'll give you a hand.

3.- We are going to have a singing party tonight. Would you like to join us?

- _______ A.I'm afraid not, because I have to go to an important meeting.

4.- Excuse me, could you show me the way to the nearest post office?

- ______Oh yes! Two blocks away from here at the Green Avenue. You can't miss it.

D.Mm, let me think.

5.- Must I take a taxi? - No, you ________ . You can take my car. D.don't have to

二、阅读理解

Mr. Hodges was the owner and editor of a small newspaper. (霍奇斯先生是一家小报社的老板兼编辑。) He always tried to bring his readers the latest news.

One day, he received an exciting telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just come through a big flood in a village up in the mountains. He described the flood in great detail, and Mr. Hodges wrote it all down and printed it in his paper that evening. He was delighted to see that no other paper had got hold of the story.

Unfortunately, however, angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked, so in the next day's paper he wrote: "We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the village of Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood. Today, we are proud to say that our newspaper is the first one to bring our readers the news that yesterday's story was quite false."

6.Mr. Hodges always tries to bring to his readers a lot of pleasure. B.F

7.A big flood up in the mountains was the news that someone gave Mr. Hodges one day.

A.T

8.After Mr. Hodges received the news, he published it right away. A.T

9.Mr. Hodges found later the flood was really terrible. B.F

10.Mr. Hodges is a good editor. B.F

When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay,（约翰和维多利亚-福斯到达纽约市准备暂住一年，）they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses.

What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples - people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap