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1、统考大学英语B 完型填空 专项练习1.Mr. Brown and his wife had a small bar near a railway station. The bar didnt close 1_ midnight because people came to drink while they were 2 for trains. So the business was good. At two oclock one morning, a man was still sitting at the table in the bar. He was 3 . Mr. Browns you
2、ng wife wanted to go to bed. She looked 4 the bar several times, but the man kept sleeping. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, “You have tried to wake that man several times, and he isnt drinking anything. Why havent you sent him away? Its too late.”“Oh, no, I dont want to send hi
3、m away,” he answered 5 a smile. “You know, each time I woke him up, he gave me five pounds. Then he went to sleep again.”1. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting2. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting3. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting4. A. with B. around C.
4、 sleeping D. until E. waiting5. A. with B. around C. sleeping D. until E. waiting2.Human language is a system of symbols. No other animal has a complex symbolic language that must be learned. Animal language is largely instinctive, 1 basic human language is learned speech, composed of sounds that sy
5、mbolize things, ideas, actions, and the like. We learn to read, often with considerable effort, by noticing or 2 taught that groups of letters stand for the sounds that we already know how to speak. We learn to write, with even _3 effort, by learning to form the letters, 4 are symbols of sounds, and
6、 to put them together on paper so that others can read what we “say”. Since human language is a form of human behavior, there is nothing absolute about it. It has developed lowly throughout human history and will continue to develop. In the English language there are perhaps 600,000 sounds, possibly
7、 more, but most of them are 5 only to specialists and are rarely used. 1. A. being B. while C. greater D. known E. which2. A. being B. while C. greater D. known E. which3. A. being B. while C. greater D. known E. which4. A. being B. while C. greater D. known E. which5. A. being B. while C. greater D
8、. known E. which3.It 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 doi
9、ng 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
10、 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.1. A. otherB. sightC. olderD. w
11、ayE. account2. A. otherB. sightC. olderD. wayE. account3. A. otherB. sightC. olderD. wayE. account4. A. otherB. sightC. olderD. wayE. account5. A. otherB. sightC. olderD. wayE. account4.No man can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if people read correctly the signs around them,
12、 they can tell 1 the weather will be like the following day or two.For many centuries people have studied the weather and tried to 2 weather forecasting. Sometimes distant objects such as hills and tall trees dont seem to be very clear. This is 3 of much water vapour in the air and therefore rain wi
13、ll probably come.If some birds fly high, fine weather is coming, but if they fly near the ground, rainy or stormy weather is on the way. It is probably because of the insects which they are hunting 4_ they fly very low.If a fog appears in the morning just about sunrise, then the day will be warm. In
14、stead, if a fog appears in the evening, the next day will bring wet weather. If the sunset is mostly red in color, then the following day will be fine. If a rainbow appears in the morning, rainy weather will probably come.Most of the 5 sayings have been made by people who have used their eyes and brains to make weather forecasting.1. A. what B. above C. make D. that E. sign2. A. what B. above C. make D. that E. sign3. A. what B. above C. make D. that E. sign4. A. what B. above C. make D. that
