题目内容
We hadn’t planned to meet. We met ______ chance.
A. of B. in C. for D. By
—Where will the peace talk be held?
—It is in the hotel __________ we stayed last time we went to Beijing.
A. where B. which C. that D. when
The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts had found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.
Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.
He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”
“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘citay ’ and ‘dutay’ , rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’ and ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”
The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch.
The results were published in the Journal of Phonetics.
1.The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.
A. she has been Queen for many years.
B. she has a less upper-class accent now.
C. her speeches are familiar to many people.
D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years.
2.Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?
A. “dutay” B. “citee” C. “hame” D. “lorst”
3.We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on _________.
A. speech sounds B. Christmas customs
C. TV broadcasting D. personal messages
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.
B. The relationship between accents and social classes.
C. The changes in a person’s accent.
D. The recent development of the English language.
What is a six-letter word that immediately comes to mind when you need some information on the Internet? You probably thought of Google. But Google wasn’t always the name of the famous search engine. In fact, the original name was BackRub!
BackRub was the name two graduate students gave to the new search engine they developed in 1996. They called it BackRub because the engine used backlinks to measure the popularity of Web sites. Later, they wanted a better name — a name that suggests huge quantities of data. They thought of the word googol. (A googol is a number followed by 100 zeros.) When they checked the Internet registry of names to see if googol was already taken, one of the students misspelled the word by mistake, and that’s how Google was born.
Google is just one example of a name change in the business world. Many other companies have decided to change their names or the names of their products. Here are some more examples:
Jerry Yang and David Filo, two young computer specialists, developed a guide to Internet content in 1994. They called it “Jerry and David’s Guide to World Wide Web.” But they soon realized that this wasn’t a very catchy name, so they searched through a dictionary and found a better one: “Yahoo.”
Sometimes companies change their names because of the popularity of one of their products. In 1962, a young runner named Phil Knight started a company called Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1971, Knight decided to design and manufacture his own brand of shoes. He named the shoes after the Greek goddess of victory — Nike. Nike shoes became so well known that Knight changed the name of the whole company to Nike.
1.According to the text, Google .
A．has been famous since 1996.
B．is a result of a spelling mistake.
C．means a number followed by 100 zeros.
D．is the original name of the search engine,
2.Jerry and David changed the guide’s name to Yahoo because the original name .
A．had been registered
B．had been forgotten
C．was too short
D．was not attractive
3.The company Nike got its name from .
A．its founders
B．its customers
C．its popular products
D．its advanced techniques
We have celebrated this festival for many years and it ________ Tang Dynasty.
A. is dated back to B. is dating back to
C. dates back to D. dated back to
书面表达
假如你是李夏。你看到美国留学生Sharon在网上发帖，希望有人能帮助她提高普通话(Mandarin)水平，她可以教英文作为回报。请根据以下提示用英语给她写一封电子邮件。
1．表达给她提供帮助的意愿；
2．说明你能胜任辅导的理由；
注意：
1．词数100词左右；
2．信中不能出现与本人相关的信息；
3．信的开头与结尾已为你拟好,不计入总词数。
Hi, Sharon,
This is Li Xia. I learned from your post that you want to improve your Mandarin.
.
Yours,
Li Xia
They decide to have another factory set up in this town.
A. paper-made B. making-paper
C. paper-making D. make-paper
假如你们学校要举行一场名为“诵读经典，热爱我校”的朗诵比赛，请你以学生会的名义，写一份通知。
参考词汇：朗诵比赛recital contest； 校园campus； 散文 prose
写作要求：只能用5个句子表达全部内容。
评分标准：句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。
Notice
Student Union
1.Do you like music?
1.What kind of music do you like best? Why?
2.Is listening to music good for your study? Share your opinions.
请根据上面的问题提示，写一篇120个字左右的短文，阐述您对音乐的看法。题目自拟。
