题目内容
Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins first meets Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl, near the Royal Opera House, late on a cold March night. Eliza is selling flowers. Higgins is out on his endless search for new dialects of Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can turn the cockney(伦敦腔)flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a lady within three months. To do so, he must change her thick Higgins looks upon her not as a person but as raw material for his experiment. He trains Eliza for weeks. When no progress is made, Eliza, loses her courage, Higgins loses his temper, and even At last she improves. In order to test Eliza, he decides to introduce her to his mother’s guests at the Ascot Race Meeting. Eliza proves to be a success. Pickering and Higgins are very proud, and neither of them takes into account Eliza’s personal accomplishments in the matter. Eliza has absorbed the sophistication(世故)and the courage to see the unfairness of this, and she blows up, demanding recognition. The Professor is astonished. It is as though a statue has come to life and spoken. Eliza rushes out of the house angrily. Higgins discovers that he is hurt because Eliza leaves him. He meets her at his mother’s flat where she has gone for advice. They argue violently and she storms out. It is only a moment after her departure that Higgins finally wakes up to the fact that Eliza has become an entirely independent and admirable human being. He realizes that he will have a difficult time getting on without her.
64. What is Henry Higgins doing when he meets Eliza?
A. He is buying some flowers.
B. He is in search of new dialects.
C. He is making a speech in
D. He is watching a play in the Royal Opera House.
65. From the passage we can see that ___________.
A. Eliza has made rapid progress during the first week
B. turning Eliza into a "lady" is not an easy job
C. Higgins gives up when no progress is made
D.
66. Higgins does all of the following to turn Eliza into a lady EXCEPT ________.
A. teach her proper English
B. teach her manners
C. buy her flowers every day
D. change her thick
67. What does the underlined phrase "blow up" mean in this passage?
A. To become very excited.
B. To be very disappointed.
C. To become very angry.
D. To be very interested.
68. Why is Higgins astonished when Eliza demands recognition?
A. Because he thought Eliza was only a statue.
B. Because his mother’s friends don’t like Eliza at all.
C. Because he thinks highly of Eliza’s personal achievements.
D. Because he didn’t realize that Eliza had become an independent person.
64.B 65.B 66．C 67．C 68.D
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 (口音) changers 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 hears saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. 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. (传统火鸡午餐).
The results were published (发表) in the Journal of Phonetics.
【小题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 |
| A．“duaty” | B．“citee” | C．“hame” | D．“lorst” |
| A．speech sounds | B．Christmas customs | C．TV broadcasting | D．personal messages |
| A．The relationship between accents and social classes. |
| B．The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV. |
| C．The changes in a person’s accent. |
| D．The recent development of the English language. |
The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts has 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 ‘the 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 (传统火鸡午餐).
The results were published (发表) in the Journal of Phonetics.
1.What is the text mainly about?
|
A．The relationship between accents and social classes. |
|
B．The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV. |
|
C．The changes in a person’s accent. |
|
D．The recent development of the English language. |
2.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 |
3.Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?
|
A．“dutay” |
B．“citee” |
C．“hame” |
D．“lorst” |
4.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 |
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 (口音) changers 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 hears saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. 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. (传统火鸡午餐).
The results were published (发表) 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．“duaty” |
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 relationship between accents and social classes. |
|
B．The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV. |
|
C．The changes in a person’s accent. |
|
D．The recent development of the English language. |