题目内容
Small as it is, the ant is as much a creature as ____ all other animals on the earth.
A. are B. is C. have D. do
A
解析:
本题主要考查对句子的结构的辨析。根据句子的意义可知,第二个as引导一个定语从句修饰先行词a creature;根据句子结构,先行词在从句中作表语,从句的谓语动词的形式由后面的主语all other animals决定用are,于是本题的正确答案为A。
I start to wonder what else had changed since I’d been gone. My parents are in an awkward puzzle, wondering how to treat me now----whether to treat me—still their daughter—as one of them, an adult, or as the child they feel they sent away months earlier.
I run into two of my best friends from high school; we stare at each other, expressionless. We ask the simple questions and give simple answers. It’s as if we have nothing to say to each other. I wonder how things have changed so much in such a small amount of time. We used to laugh and promise that no matter how far away we were, our love for each other would never change. Their interests don’t interest me anymore, and I find myself unable to relate my life to theirs.
I had been so excited to come home, but now I just look at it all and wonder: Is it me? Why hadn’t the world stood still here while I was gone? My room isn’t the same, my friends and I don’t share the same promise, and my parents don’t know how to treat me—or who I am, for that matter.
I get back to school feeling half-satisfied, but not disappointed. I sit up in my bed in my dorm room, surrounded by my pictures, dolls. As I wonder what has happened, I realize that I can’t expect the world to stand still and move forward at the same time. I can change and expect that things at home will stay the same. I have to find comfort in what has changed and what is new; keep the memories, but live in the present.
A few weeks later, I’m packing again, this time for winter break. My mom meets me at the door. I have come home accepting the changes, not only in my surroundings, but most of all in me.
【小题1】
What can we infer about the writer?
A.She is a high school student. | B.She is a college student. |
C.She is a clerk in a school. | D.She is a traveler. |
. What surprises the writer most?
A.The living conditions of her parents. |
B.The decorations in her room. |
C.The meeting with her best friends. |
D.The things still staying the same. |
What is this passage mainly about?
A.The writer’s curiosity about the changes. |
B.The changes in the writer’s surroundings and in herself. |
C.The writer’s disappointment about the changes. |
D.The writer’s refusal to accept the changes. |
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.
【小题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. |
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.“dutay” | B.“citee” | C.“hame” | D.“lorst” |
A.speech sounds | B.Christmas customs |
C.TV broadcasting | D.personal messages |