2012年月统考大学英语B模拟题5.docVIP

大学英语B5 一、交际英语 1、--Hi, is Mary there, please? --_____ A：Hold on. Ill get her. B：No, she isnt here. C：Yes, she lives here. D：Yes, what do you want？ 答案： A 2、Thank you for your nice gifts. - _____________________ A：Im glad you like it. B：No thanks. C：Its very kind of you. D：Im sorry to hear that. 答案： A 3、--I was worried about my maths, but Mr. Brown gave me an A. --_____ A：Dont worry about it. B：Congratulations! Thats a difficult course. C：Mr. Brown is very good. D：Good luck to you！ 答案： B 4、- How often do you go dancing? - A：I will go dancing tomorrow. B：Yesterday. C：Every other day. D：Ive been dancing for a year. 答案： C 5、- How was your trip to London, Jane? - ___________ A：Oh, wonderful indeed. B：I went there alone. C：The guide showed me the way. D：By plane and by bus. 答案： A 二、阅读理解 1、No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. In time, the dish reached India. The Indians, in turn, may have passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians. The Persians called their dish Sharbat, from which our word sherbet（冰冻果子露） comes. Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled widely in the thirteenth century, noted that he found the Chinese had long been making ices out of fruit juices and milk. From the fourteenth century on, ices became popular, first in Venice and then throughout Italy. In 1533, when Catherine de Medicis left Italy to marry the future King Henry Ⅱof France, she took her cooks with her. They made desserts the French had never tasted before. Among them was ice cream. For each day of the wedding festivities（庆祝活动，庆典） Catherines cooks prepared a different flavor of her favorite dessert-ice cream. At first ice cream was a luxury in France. Only rich people had money to buy it. Then, in 1660, a young man from Sicily, Francisco Procopio, arrived in Paris. He opened a shop that sol