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1、大学英语C统考题库第一部分阅读1阅读理解1,考试为第15题，2选1,AB型，如不会，全选A,得6-9分给你一篇短文，短文后有5个句子，请根据短文内容对这5个句了进行判断。认为对，选 择A True；认为错，选择B False。（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）本题库提供考试 常见的7篇文章。Passage 1One morning Joyce made some sandwiches for her husband's lunch. As there was a little meat left, she gave it to Henry, their little dog. Hen

2、ry ate it quickly.During the morning the dog got ill. He wouldn't stop shaking his head, and he couldn't stand up properly. Joyce thought that it must have been the meat that gave him the trouble. She began to worry about her husband's lunch. She called her husband immediately.“Jim, I ho

3、pe you haven't eaten any of those sandwiches? You have? Two? Well, listen, and don't eat any more. I gave Henry the last piece of meat, and he's ill. Get to the doctor, Jim, What? You feel all right? No, Jim, don't take a chance with your health. Please, and get some medicine.nJim ca

4、me home and went to bed. He said he had taken some medicine but that made him very uncomfortable.The next morning Jim was fine. Henry seemed quite all right, too. At 8:00 the milkman came with the milk. "How's your dog this morning?” he asked. nYesterday morning he and I had a little accide

5、nt. He jumped at me? and I dropped a bottle of milk on his head.”1. Henry is Joyce's dogA. True B. False2. Henry began to feel ill after lunchtime.A. TrueB. False3. Joyce telephoned her husband because she thought the sandwiches had bad meat.A. TrueB. False4. Henry got ill because the meat was b

6、ad.A. TrueB. False5. Jim went to the doctor after his wife had called him.A. TrueB. False答案：ABABAPassage 2We continue our program for students from other countries who want to study in the United States. Last week, we talked about the University of Southern California. Students at U.S.C. get to expe

7、rience life in America's second-largest city, Los Angeles, on the West Coast. This week, we discuss another school with a large number of foreign students. It is all the way across the country, in New York City.New York University has forty-eight thousand students. More than four thousand of the

8、m are from outsidetheUnitedStates.NYU offers many different programs of study. Also, students get to experience life in America's largest city. In fact, Gail Szenes tells us that NYU is the coolest school in the United States. Her opinion may have something to do with her job: she is director of

9、 the International Student Office at NYU.1> The largest city in the United States is New York city.A. TrueB. False2> The word "coolest“ in the third paragraph probably means coldest.A. TrueB. False3、NYU is short for New York University.A. TrueB. False4> About 48% of the students in New

10、 York University are from other countries.A. TrueB. False5、 This passage is mostly about school in the United States.A. TrueB. False答案：ABABBPassage 3Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him. He had tripped （绊彳到）and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along w

11、ith some clothes, a baseball bat and a glove.Mark knelt （跪）down and helped the boy pick up the things. Since they were going the same way, he offered to carry some things for the boy.As they walked, Mark discovered the boy's name was Bill. He loved video games, baseball and history, but he was h

12、aving trouble with some of his subjects.They amved at Bill” s home first. Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly with some laughs and talk. Then Mark went home.They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, then

13、 both graduated from junior school.Three days before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.Bill reminded （提酉星）Mark of the day years ago when they had first met. nDid you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill.“You see, I took away all my things from school.

14、 I had stored away some of my mother11 s sleeping pills （安眠药） I was going home to kill myself. But after we spent some time talking and laughing, 1 realized that if I had died, I would have missed so many good times. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You

15、saved my life/11. When Bill fell down on his way home, Mark helped him pick up the things.A. TrueB. False2. Bill was good at all of his subjects.3. At Bill* s home, they didn't have a pleasant talk.A. TrueB. False4. Three days before graduation, Bill asked Mark to talk because he wanted to tell

16、him his storyA. TrueB. False5. Bill would have been dead without Mark's help.A. TrueB. False答案：ABBAAPassage 4Mrs. Jones was still cleaning the house when her husband came back from work. She was wearing dirty, old clothes and mo stockings （长袜）and her hair was not tidy. She looked dirty and tired

17、. Her husband looked at her and said, Is this what I come home to see after a hard day*s work?55Mr. Jones* neighbor , Mrs. Smith, was there. When she heard Mr. Jones* words, she quickly said goodbye and ran back to her house. Then she washed and combed （梳理）her hair carefully, put on her best dress a

18、nd her most beautiful stockings, painted her face, and waited for her husband to come home.When he arrived, he was tired. He walked slowly into the house, saw his wife and stopped. Then he shouted （大喊）angrily, nAnd where are you going this evening T1. Mrs. Jones was washing off the dust on her face

19、when here husband came back home from work.A. TrueB. False2. Mrs. Jones was Mrs. Smith neighbor.A. TrueB. False3. Mrs. Jones washed and brushed and combed her hair carefully after hearing her husband's words.A. TrueB. False4. Mr. Smith was very glad to see her wife was very beautiful.A. TrueB. F

20、alse5. The story tells us husbands may have different requirements to their wives.A. TrueB. False答案：BABBAPassage 5Can you think of a sentence in which the word "and” appears five times, without any words in between? There is one at the end of this story. There was once an inn which was called ”

21、The House and Cart”. It had a sign outside it which had a picture of a horse and cart on it, but the sign was getting very old, so the owner of the inn decided to have a new one made. He went to a painter and asked him to paint one, and to write "The Horse and Cart” on it in large letters. A fe

22、w days later, he went to see how the painter was getting on. He liked the picture of the horse and cart very much, but he did not like the writing at all. He said to the painter, "No, no! There is too much space between HORSE and AND and AND and CART!”1. An inn is a small horse.A. TrueB. False2

23、. There was a sign outside the innA. TrueB. False3. The owner of the inn decided to call a painter to paint a new sign.A. TrueB. False4. The owner of the inn thought the letters on the sign were separated too widely.A. TrueB. False5. The owner liked the horse but not the letters.A. TrueB. False答案：BA

24、AABPassage 6Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. It is true. People usually begin their talks with nIsn,t it a nice day?” "Do you think it will rain?” "What a fine day!” etc.（等等）Many people think they can tell what the weather is going to be like. But they

25、hardly agree with each other. One man may say J'Do you see how cloudy it is in the east? It*s going to rain tomonow. ” Another man will say, "No, it's going to be fine tomorrow.nPeople often look for the weather they want. When a farmer needs water, he looks for something to tell him if

26、s going to rain; he won't believe （相信）anything else. When friends have a travel,（旅 游）they are sure the weather is going to clear up（晴朗）very quickly.Almost （几乎）everyone listens to what the weatherman says. But he doesn't always tell us what we want, and once in a while he makes a mistake.（犯错误

27、）Still, he probably （可能）comes closer to being correct （正确）than anyone else.1. HNobody does something about the weather11 means nobody can talk about weather.A. TrueB. False2. Asking each others names is a common way to start a talk.A. TrueB. False3. When it is cloudy in the east, you can!t make sure

28、 that it must be cloudy tomorrow.A. TrueB. False4. Many people hope the weather will be fine5. A weatherman probably is a man who reports weather.A. TrueB. False答案：BBABAPassage 7If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost, this is what you should do. Si

29、t down and stay where you are. Don't try to find your friends-let them find you instead. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people tofind you. You can shout or whistle （盼（Id 口肖）three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three time

30、s again. Any signal （信号）given three times is a call for help.Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two wh

31、istles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.If you donft think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches （树枝）， make yourself a bed with leaves and grass. When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to loo

32、k for it. Don*t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop （扔 卜）them as you walk in order to go back again easily. When you are lost, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place.1. If you get lost in the forest, you should stay in one place and give signals.A. TrueB. False2. shoutin

33、g here and there is a call for help.A. TrueB. False3. When you hear two shouts or two whistles, you know that someone is afraid of an animal.A. TrueB. False4. When you leave your branch house to look for water, you should leave branches to find your way backA. TrueB. FalseA. True 答案：ABBAAB. False5.

34、The main idea of the passage is what you should do if you are lost in the forest.第二部分阅读2考试为第6-10题，为ABCD型给你一篇短文，短文后有5个问题，每个问题后有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个 选项中选出一个正确选项。（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）提供常见阅读20篇Passage 1There was once a farmer, who lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but cars often passed the farm.Near t

35、he farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This hole was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was probably shallow. Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was so deep.The farmer did not spend mu

36、ch time working on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole. When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor and charged the driver a lot of money for doing this.One day, the driver of a car said to him, nYou must take a lot of money from pulling cars out of this hole night a

37、nd day.”“Oh, no J said the farmer, UI don't pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill the hole with water.”1. The farmer's home is A. beside the holeB. far from a farmC. near a roadD. at the farm gate2. near the farm gate.A. There was a tractorB.There was a large holeC. There were

38、a lot of carsD.There were a few farmers3. Many cars went into the hole because the drivers.A. were not carefulB.didn't see the holeC. liked driving through waterD. could not see how deepthe hole was4. The farmer spent much time in the daytime.A. watching the holeB. digging the holeC. working on

39、the farmD. driving a tractor5. The farmer made a lot of money from.A. growing things on the farm B. watching the gate of the farmC. filling the hole with earthD. pulling cars out of the hole答案：CBDADPassage 2The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world. It is more than 6 （X） 0 kilometers

40、long, about 7 meters high, 5 to 6 meters wide. It is known to be the only one of the structures built by men on Earth that can be seen from the moon.The Potala （布达才立宫）in Tibet, China, is the worldfs highest palace. It is over 3 kilometers above the sea level.The great Pyramid in Egypt is the biggest

41、 burial place ever built. It is about 137 meters high, or about the height of 40-storey building. Each side of the Pyramid is about 230 meters long, or about as long as 2 city blocks.The Scars Tower in Chicago, U.S.A., reaches a height of 443 meters- It has 110 storeys and covers a total floor space

42、 of 420,000 square meters. It is the tallest office building in the world.1 The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world because it is.A. over six thousand kilometers longB. about two hundred and thirty meters longC. about as long as two city blocksD. more than three kilometers above sea

43、-level2 The biggest burial place that men ever built is in.A. TibetB. EgyptC. the PotalaD. the Great Wall3 The Sears Tower is about, so it is the tallest office building in the world.A. seven meters highB. one hundred and thirty seven meters highC. four hundred and forty-three meters highD. four hun

44、dred and twenty thousand meters high4 The only one of the objects built by men on the earth that can been seen from the moon is.A. the Great PyramidB. the Great WallC. the Sears TowerD. the Potala5 The Potala is in.A. ChicagoB. EgyptC. the U.S.AD. China答案：ABCBDPassage 3To me, music is food and water

45、. I can't live without it. I know this is not true for everybody. Many people don't listen to music and they can get along quite well. But music is everywhere in our life. For example, when you watch films or TV plays, do you find them interesting if there is no music? You would find them bo

46、ring. And when you are waiting for the train or the plane, you would like music because it makes the time seem shorter.It is true that music is everywhere in our life. Some people like to sit by the sea and listen to the sound of the sea. Some enjoy listening to the singing of birds. Those sounds ar

47、e some kinds of music. So music has meaning for everyone in some way or other. Of course, it has special meaning for people like me. We spend our lives playing or writing music. Someone said, nThough music a child goes into a world of beauty, learns to take care of others and makes his mind and body

48、 strong.11 Music is an important part of our lives.1. The passage tells us that the writer.A. likes to sit by the seaB. is not interested in musicC. likes to travel by planeD. likes music very much2. The word "boring” in the first paragraph means.A. interestingB. not interestingC. tiringD. fool

49、ish3. Music is important to.A. some peopleB. everyoneC. nobodyD. writers only4. Listening to music can when you are waiting for the train.A. make time fly slowlyB. help you save timeC. make time longerD. make you feel time passes more quickly5. Which of the following is true?A. The writer likes to w

50、rite music every day.B. The writer becomes strong through music.C. Most people like to listen to the sound of the sea.D. Most people can't leave music in their lives.答案：DBBDBPassage 4Years ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages. Small cages made it easy for people to see the ani

51、mals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and little lake. The cages look like the animals1 habits.Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals

52、in the zoo and they protect animals in the wild. How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals* wild habitats.Many plants and animals are going extinct （灭绝） Mammoths, which related with the Asian elephants, are now extinct. There ar

53、e no mammoths in the world today. Scientists say that seventy-four different kinds of living things go extinct every day!Zoos arc working together to stop animals from going extinct.1. Zoos kept animals in small cages so that people can.A. protect them B. see them betterC. feed them D. save them2. T

54、oday, zoos keep animals.A. in bigger cagesB. in the wildC. in smaller cagesD. in the field3. To protect animals, zoos.A. arc trying to keep all kinds of animalsB. are trying to free the animalsC. teach people more about animalsD. want people to feed the animals4. A mammoth is a kind of that has gone

55、 extinct.A. plantB. birdC. animalD. tree5. An animal or a plant that is going extinct A. has more and more living membersB. comes into this world soonC. becomes very dangerousD. has fewer and fewer living members答案：BACCDPassage 5Mr. Jackson worked in a hospital. A lot of patients （病 人） went to see h

56、im and he was very busy and had little time to rest in the daytime. One night, when he looked over the last patient, it was five to one. He was too tired to say a word and lay down at once. As soon as he fell asleep, a farmer began to knock at the door and got him up."My wife is ill. nshouted t

57、he farmer/Please go and look her over. HMr. Jackson had to go out with the farmer. It was the coldest night of the year and the road was covered （覆盖） with snow and ice. The farmer lived far away from the town and they went through a forest, crossed two rivers and a mountain. It took them three hours

58、 to get to the short, small house. And they were both tired, cold and hungry.The woman stayed in bed. She looked fine. Mr. Jackson looked her over carefully and found there was nothing serious with her. He became angry. He called the farmer out and said, nYour wife is strong and healthy, you know. Why did you ask me to come here late at night?,nTm sorry, sir. "said the farmer/'My wife never does anything at home. I thought she was ill. Wefre poor. In the day, When you're busy, I can't go for you. If you came to look her over at night