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大学英语B1 一、交际英语 1.- Take these pills three times a day. Come back and see me in a week. - _________ A.Thank you very much indeed. B.I cant make it. C.I havent decided yet. D.Good idea! 答案：A 2.Hows your family? -- _________ A.Thanks all the same. B.Thanks for calling. C.Not too bad. D.Dont mention it. 答案：C 3.- This box is too heavy for me to carry it upstairs. - _______ A.You may ask for help. B.Ill give you a hand. C.Please do me a favor. D.Id come to help. 答案：B 4.I didnt mean to do that. Please forgive me. -- _________ A.Not too bad. B.Thats all right. C.Its a pleasure. D.Thank you. 答案：B 5.Good morning, may I speak to Mark, please? -- _________ A.Whos there? B.Whos that speaking? C.Who are you? D.Who wants to speak to Mark? 答案：B 二、阅读理解 6.If Mrs Evans is interested in the dresses, she may call 5998326. A.T B.F 答案：A 7.You neednt pay if you want to get a lovely dog. A.T B.F 答案：A 8.If Mrs Evans wants to buy all the dresses, she has to pay ＄270. A.T B.F 答案：A 9.If you give an old pair of shoes to HiLos Store, you can get anynew pair of shoes with only 10 dollars. A.T B.F 答案：B 10.The old shoes will be given to beggars. A.T B.F 答案：B How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations - the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something increas