2017年4月英语统考复习资料大学英语B2
大学英语B2
一、交际英语
1.- What's the date today?
- _________
A.It's October.
B.It's Monday.
C.It's not the right time.
D.The second of July.
答案：D
2.- What a beautiful dress you have on today!
- _________
A.It is suitable for me.
B.No, it isn't.
C.You want to have one, too?
D.Thank you.
答案：D
3.- What's the problem with your bike?
- _________
A.Not at all.
B.Good, thank you.
C.Nothing serious.
D.Sure
答案：C
4.- Good morning, John. How are you doing?
- _________
A.I'm pleased.
B.Good night.
C.Not so bad. And you?
D.How do you do?
答案：C
5.- Wow! This is a marvelous room! I've never known you're so artistic. - ______
A.Great, I am very art-conscious.
B.Don't mention it.
C.Thanks for your compliments.
D.It's fine.
答案：C
二、阅读理解
A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. As he lay down in the seat and closed his eyes, a man came up and knocked at the window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes and looked at his watch. “It's 8 a.m.,” he said. Then he went to sleep again.
But soon he woke u p because a second person was knocking at the window. “Sir, do you have the time?” he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30 a.m..
At this rate (照此下去), he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and put it up on the window for all to see. It said, “I don't have the time.”
Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a third person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hey, sir,” he said, “it's a quarter to nine.”
6.He was woken up again by the second person a few minutes later.
A.T
B.F
答案：B
7.The driver stopped his car because he was very tired.
A.T
B.F
答案：A
8.The driver had a very good rest after he put up the note on the window.
A.T
B.F
答案：B
9.The third person came to knock at the window to tell him the time.
A.T
B.F
答案：A
10.According to this passage, we know that the driver didn't have his own house.
A.T
B.F
答案：B
When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, 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 o f 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 furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.
11.Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?
A.Selling home furnishings.
B.Renting furnished apartments.
C.Selling used furniture.
D.Renting home furnishings.
答案：D
12.Why do some people prefer to rent furniture?
A.Because the furniture they get in this way is new.
B.Because it saves them a lot of money.
C.Because it saves them much trouble and money.
D.Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.
答案：C
13.What can you infer from the passage?
A.The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.
B.Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.
C.Only those who don’t have enough mo ney to rent furniture.
D.People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.
答案：B
14.Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A.Rent or Buy?
B.A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings.
C.Furnished Apartments.
D.A New Idea.
答案：B
15.Young people liked renting home furniture because_________
A.they have less money.
B.they don’t want to buy old furniture.
C.the new furniture is of good quality.
D.they don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture.
答案：D
三、词汇与语法
16.It took me a long time to ________ the disappointment of failing the exam.
A.get over
B.get up
C.get into
D.get down
答案：A
17.He ______ to me last week.
A.is writing
B.writes
C.wrote
D.is written
答案：C
18.His mother _____alone since his father died.
A.lived
B.lives
C.has lived
D.is living
答案：C
19.The harder you study, ____ you will learn.
A.much
B.many
C.the more
D.much more
答案：C
20.The young lady coming over to us _____ our English teacher; the way she walks tells us that!
A.must be
B.can be
C.would be
D.could be
答案：A
四、完型填空
Water is the most important of all the things we eat and ___21___. Not many people understand this, but it's quite ___22___. The human body can go without food for a long time, yet two or three days without water can usually make people die.
Many people don't know how ___23___ water the human body needs to work well, and many people do not drink enough,___24___in hot weather. Our body is mostly water about 67%--75%. If we don't have enough, we'll feel ___25___ and many will get ill. So, you know, how important the water is to us all.
21.
A.much
B.tired
C.even
D.true
E.drink
答案：E
22.
A.much
B.tired
C.even
D.true
E.drink
答案：D
23.
A.much
B.tired
C.even
D.true
E.drink
答案：A
24.
A.much
B.tired
C.even
D.true
E.drink
答案：C
25.
A.much
B.tired
C.even
D.true
E.drink
答案：B
五、英译汉
26.Talking for a long time makes me tired.
答案：长时间的谈话使我感到疲倦。
27.Would you mind waiting outside?
答案：请你在外面等，好吗？
28.I'm having a headache now.
答案：我现在有点头疼。
29.There is a large amount of energy wasted due to friction(摩擦).
答案：由于摩擦而损耗了大量的能量。
30.John and his brother differ in personality even if their differences in age are not significant. 答案：尽管约翰和他哥哥在年纪上相差不大，但他们的个性却不相同。
31.You needn’t go there anymore. He already knows about it.
答案：你不必去了，他已经知道那件事了。
六、写作
32.写作
Instructions:根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。
1.介绍家庭主要成员；
2.描述令你难忘的家庭活动。
My Family
答案：无
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