大学英语B 完型填空.doc

大学英语B 完型填空1. You may meet Americans who know very little about your country. If this _ the case, be patient with them. Unfortunately, little is taught about the cultures or customs of other countries in America schools. The United States has always been separated from older countries by the vast oceans to the East and West of the country. As a _ Americans have not become so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things as is often the case in older countries. If Americans try to help you _ something that is very familiar to you, if they mistake your country for another of thousands of kilometers away, be patient with them. The United States has developed into a modern nation in a very short time _ with many other countries-only about 300 years. Americans have been very busy with growth of the country, with building roads and cities, establishing free education for millions of children, and making inventions, discoveries, and developments to benefit the whole world. The Nations attention has been on the United States, not on the world, during most of this _ period. It is only since World War Two (1939-1945) that Americans have been more interested in other parts of the World.(1) A. with B. compared C. result D. 300-year E. is答案： E(2) A. with B. compared C. result D. 300-year E. is答案： C(3) A. with B. compared C. result D. 300-year E. is答案： A(4) A. with B. compared C. result D. 300-year E. is答案： B(5) A. with B. compared C. result D. 300-year E. is答案： D2. American people divide their days into several blocks of time, and plan different activities different times. American time is on the dot(准确地). If something is supposed to happen at Eight oclock, it will begin at eight. Americans value promptness(准时)and may become angry if a person is more than 15 minutes late a good reason. If you know you are going to be late, call in advance and let someone know. you arrive late, you should apologize and explain why. Americans arrive time for doctors appointments. The doctor may keep you , but if you keep the doctor waiting, you may get a bill with the doctors time!(1) A. for B. waiting C. on D. if E. without答案： A(2) A. for B. waiting C. on D. if E. without答案： E(3) A. for B. waiting C. on D. if E. without答案： D(4) A. for B. waiting C. on D. if E. without答案： C(5) A. for B. waiting C. on D. if E. without答案： B3. This is my timetable. I study at No.3 Middle School of Dongfang. From Monday to Friday I get up _ 6:30 a.m. I have _ at 7:00 and then I go to school. I dont like to be late. Our classes _ at 8:30 a.m. We have four classes in the morning. I often have lunch at school with my classmates. In the afternoon, we have two classes. Classes are over at 3:30, and I get home at 4:00. But sometimes I dont _ school so early because I play basketball on the playground. I have supper at about 6:00. After supper I do my homework. I often watch TV, but sometimes I _ to do some reading and the story books are very interesting. I usually go to bed at about 10:00 p.m. (1) A. leave B. at C. like D. breakfast E. start答案： B(2) A. leave B. at C. like D. breakfast E. start答案： D(3) A. leave B. at C. like D. breakfast E. start答案： E(4) A. leave B. at C. like D. breakfast E. start答案： A(5) A. leave B. at C. like D. breakfast E. start答案： C4. Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four parts, _ 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 _ time part every day if you make a five-day journey across the Atlantic Ocean. As you go into each part, the time _ 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 _ the International Date Line. This is the point where a new day _. When you go across the line, you change your calendar one full day, back or ahead.(1) A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins答案： B(2) A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins答案： A(3) A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins答案： D(4) A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins答案： C(5) A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins答案： E5. Many people would agree that stress is a major problem in modern life. It is certainly true that worry and quarrel can cause all kinds of illnesses, backache to severe headaches, or even more serious complaints such as high blood pressure. Many of us think stress as something that other people impose on us. We often complain about how other people put us pressure. But we should try not to let such pressure affect us. We should not forget that we are largely responsible for some of the stress ourselves. We sometimes take more work than our bodies and our minds can handle. We should learn to our limitations. We should be aware of which things are really important and which are not.(1) A. of B. under C. accept D. from E. on答案： D(2) A. of B. under C. accept D. from E. on答案： A(3) A. of B. under C. accept D. from E. on答案： B(4) A. of B. under C. accept D. from E. on答案： E(5) A. of B. under C. accept D. from E. on答案： C6It seems quite clearly unjust to pay two people different amounts of money for doing the same work. But it is not as easy as it appeals at first _1_ to introduce equal pay for equal work. Two people may be working side by side in a factory and doing the same work, but one may be doing it twice as fast as the _2_; or one may be making no mistakes, while the other is making a lot. In some kinds of work, one can solve the problem of speed if one pays by the amount of work to be done and not by the hour: work paid for in this _3_ is called piece-work. But it is not always possible to do this, so it is sometimes useful to pay workers at different rates, which take differences in skill into _4_. This usually means that the younger and therefore less experienced worker gets less than the _5_ and more experienced one, which seems reasonable enough. A：otherB：sightC：olderD：wayE：account答案：1、B2、A3、D4、E5、C7Man can not go on increasing his number at the present rate. In the _1_ 30 years man will face a period of crisis. _2_ experts believe that there will be a widespread food shortage. Other experts think this is too pessimistic, and that man can prevent things from getting worse than they are now. But remember that two thirds of the people in the world are under-nourished（有营养的）or starving now. One thing that man can do is to limit the _3_ of babies born. The need _4_ this is obvious, but it is not _5_ to achieve. People have to be persuaded to limit their families.A：forB：easyC：SomeD：numberE：next答案：1、E2、C3、D4、A5、B8 Do you know the story about the fox and the grapes? A fox is _1_ food. He is very hungry. Now, he stands near a wall. The wall is very _2_. The fox is looking up. He sees a lot of fine grapes _3_ the wall. He smiles and says, How nice they are! I want to eat them. The fox jumps and jumps, but the wall is too high. He _4_ get the grapes. The fox says, I must go now. I dont like those grapes. They are green. They are not _5_ to eat. A：looking forB：goodC：onD：highE：cant答案：1、A2、D3、C4、E5、B9Traffic accidents killed more than 104,000 people in China last year. Chinese cities have more cars than before. Every day many people are _1_ while they cross the road. Most of _2_ are old people and children. Old people are often killed because they usually cant see clearly or hear very well. _3_ are killed because they are careless. A car, truck or bus cant stop very quickly if it is going very fast. The faster a car is traveling, the longer it takes to stop. But people walking in the street do not always understand this. Its _4_ for people to know how fast a car is traveling. The new traffic laws were put into use _5_ May 1st, 2004. The new traffic laws will make the streets safer for walking and driving. A：killedB：onC：childrenD：difficultE：them答案：1、A2、E3、C4