公共英语等级考试二级模拟题阅读理解(两套)..docVIP

公共英语等级考试二级模拟题(一)A While visiting France, we decided to do some shopping. Not far from the hotel was a store with all kinds of clothing hanging up, and a notice offering fifty percent discount. When we entered the shop, a woman asked if she could help us, but we would like to look around on our own. She looked at us very strangely. Not finding anything suitable, we thanked the woman and left. Suddenly my husband began to laugh and pointed to a small sign in English. It said: “DRYCLEANING SHOP”. ?56 The shop they entered was______ . ［A］a tailor’s shop ［B］a second hand clothing store ［C］a clothing store ［D］none of the above 57 According to the passage, the writer might be ______. ［A］a Frenchman ［B］a Frenchwoman ［C］an Englishman ［D］an Englishwoman 58 The woman in the shop stared at them strangely, because ______. ［A］she saw foreigners for the first time ［B］they had on funny clothes ［C］she wondered why they came into the shop ［D］they didn’t give her any money 59 The man laughed suddenly when ______. ［A］he found something he was after ［B］he realized they had been to a wrong place ［C］he caught sight of a strange woman ［D］he saw a notice 60 The writer and her husband went into the shop because ______. ［A］they want to have their clothes washed ［B］they want to buy the clothes they saw in it ［C］they didn’t know they went into the dry cleaning shop ［D］they liked the woman in it B An antifreeze is a liquid that is added to water to keep it from freezing. When water freezes and becomes into ice, it expands. The force of water of expanding is so great that it can break the hardest metal. Water is used in car engines to keep them cool while they run, and if this water is allowed to freeze in winter it can break the iron block of the engine. That is why antifreezes are necessary. Water freeze at zero centigrade; the usual kind of antifreeze will not freeze until the temperature is 40℃ below zero. A mixture of five parts of water