【题目】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 p.m. in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch.

The results were published 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】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】Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?

A. “dutay” B. “citee” C. “hame” D. “lorst”

【题目】Far from the land of Antarctica, a huge shelf of ice meets the ocean. At the underside of the shelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.

For forty years scientists have been curious about that fish. How does it live where most fish would freeze to death? It must have some secret. The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to work and research has been slow. Now it seems we have an answer.

Research was begun by cutting holes in the ice and catching the fish. Scientists studied the fish’s blood and measured its freezing point.

The fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of -1.88°C and many tiny pieces of ice floating in it. The blood of the fish did not begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered to -2.05°C. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the ice-salt mixture.

The scientists’ next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish’s blood kept it from freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein never before seen in the blood of a fish. When it was removed, the blood froze at seawater temperature. When it was put back, the blood again had its antifreeze quality and a lowered freezing point.

Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules (分子) held in special positions within each big protein molecule. Because of its sugar content, it is called a glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP.

【1】Why can the Antarctic cod live at the freezing temperature?

A. The seawater has a temperature of -1.88°C.

B. It loves to live in the ice-salt mixture

C. A special protein keeps it from freezing.

D. Its blood has a temperature lower than -2.05°C.

【2】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

A. A type of ice-salt mixture.

B. A newly found protein.

C. Fish blood.

D. Sugar molecule.

【3】What does “glyco-” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” in the last paragraph mean?

A. sugar B. ice C. blood D. molecule

【4】What is the best title of this passage?

A. Discovery of the AFGP.

B. A special fish living in Antarctica.

C. The ice shelf around Antarctica.

D. Protection of the Antarctic cod.

【题目】Too many people put off things that could bring them joy just because they haven’t thought about them, don’t have them on their schedules or are too stubborn to leave from their regular daily things.

One day I thought about all those women on the Titanic who refused sweet foods at dinner that fateful（命中注定的）night to cut out fatty foods. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more changeable.

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, “How about going to lunch in half an hour?” She would stammer (结巴地说),“I can’t , I have clothes to wash. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday. I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.” She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

We live on promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect. We’ll go back and visit the grandparents when we get our baby, Stevie, toilet-trained. We’ll enjoy when we replace the living room carpet. We’ll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we wake up, and all we have to show for our lives is a long list of “I’m going to”, “I plan on” and “Someday, when things settle down a bit”.

I love ice cream. But my lips had not touched ice cream in 10 years. The other day I stopped the car and bought an ice cream. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now, go have a nice day. Do something you want to. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you say? And why are you waiting?

【1】The author mentioned（提到）the women on the Titanic to ________.

A. prove that cutting out fatty foods is difficult

B. tell people to enjoy themselves sometimes

C. encourage people to stick to regular daily things

D. tell us the importance of refusing unhealthy foods like sweet foods

【2】 What’s the author’s feeling in Paragraph3?

A. Angry. B. Happy. C. Humorous. D. Regretful.

【3】The underlined word “accelerating” in Paragraph 5 probably means “________”.

A. moving more quickly

B. going slower

C. becoming more difficult

D. getting more disappointing

【4】 In the author’s opinion, which of the following is the most likely to bring people true happiness?

A. Getting an ice cream every day.

B. Knowing what one wants completely.

C. Visiting loved ones as long as one has time.

D. Putting off the things that could bring us joy.

【题目】Twitter or micro-blogging, is really more of a social commons than a full-blown social network like MySpace or Facebook. It pretty much does one thing: allows people to "tweet" what they're up to (or what they're thinking about) in 140 characters or less.

Since we're sticking with the "less is more" aesthetic, I'm just going to give you 5 Twitter tips instead of the 10 I could have stretched this into.

【1】_____________

Say whatever you feel like saying, but remember that whatever you write could exist in the digital universe forever. Proceed with extreme caution.

【2】______________

If you like something they say, reply by clicking the little grey arrow that appears when you hover over one of their tweets. You can also simply type in @username (replacing "username" with whatever their username happens to be on Twitter). This is the formal way to address someone on Twitter.

【3】_____________

Twitter has something called an API (Application Programming Interface), which allows programmers to create experiences around Twitter for the community. Because of this, there have been an amazing array of applications released that will allow you to manage your Twitter account easily. There's Twitterrific, TweetDeck, and Twhirl -- just to name a few.

【4】_____________

If you're looking for new friends, a quick search for some of your favorite things on search.twitter.com will quickly reveal who you should be friending on Twitter. Maybe they'll follow you back?

【5】.______________

Keep your eye out for these things. They're meetups for people on Twitter, and there's likely one happening regularly in your neck of the woods. I've taken to hosting one monthly in the Seattle area, as a matter of fact. Meet Twitter people -- tweeps, tweeple -- in meatspace!

Do you have any Twitter tips to pass along? You could even share the link to this article on Twitter and it might become the most popular story today!

A. Find Friends Fast

B. Meet Twitter Users

C. Forward the Twitter

D. Be Yourself, but Beware

E. Use Twitter from Your Desktop

F. Don't Be Afraid to Interact with Others

【题目】The people, _______ had been damaged by the flood, were given help by the Red Cross.

A. all their homes B. all whose homes

C. all of their homes D. all of whose homes

【题目】BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's economic planning agency Thursday announced a rise in minimum rice purchase prices this year to encourage farmers to grow more grain.

A statement on the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) website said the government would continue the policy of minimum purchase prices in major rice-growing regions in 2011. The rises in the minimum rice purchase price had been approved by the State Council, China's Cabinet, said the statement.

The purchase prices for japonica rice will rise 21.9 percent to 128 yuan (19.4 U.S. dollars) per 50 kilograms, while prices for early and middle-late rice will increase 9.7 percent and 10.3 percent to 102 yuan and 107 yuan per 50 kg respectively.

Rice and wheat are two major grain crops in China.

The State Council pledged Wednesday to step up efforts to boost grain production as drought continues to wreak havoc in north China's wheat growing regions.

China's main wheat-growing regions, including Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and Jiangsu provinces, have been plagued by drought since October last year.

Drought has affected about 7.73 million hectares, or 42.4 percent, of the total winter wheat crop area in the country's eight key producing provinces, the Ministry of Agriculture said Wednesday.

China's grain output rose 2.9 percent last year to 546.41 million tons, marking the seventh consecutive year of growth.

【1】When was this news probably written?

A. In 2011 B. In 2010

C. In February, 2011 D. On Wednesday, 2011

【2】What is the purchase price for japonica rice before it wise according to the passage?

A.105 yuan per 50 kilograms

B. 128 yuan per 50 kilograms

C. 102 yuan per 50 kilograms

D. 107 yuan per 50 kilograms

【3】What is the meaning of the underlined word in the fourth paragraph?

A. completely B. Honorably

C. separately D. exactly

【4】Which of the following sentences is true according to the passage.

A. A raised purchase price will encourage farmers to grow more rice.

B. The plan hasn’t been approved by the State Council, China's Cabinet.

C. Drought continues to hit the wheat growing regions in the north of China.

D. There are 8 grain producing provinces affected by the drought.

【5】Which may be the headline of this news?

A. China’s minimum rice purchase prices raised to boost production

B. A Steady rice purchase prices to ensure rice production

C. The Chinese government pays more attention on rice production

D. China’s grain output steadily increases

【题目】Here is some information about some of the restaurants, museums, shopping centers and

hotels in New York.

【1】 You do not have to pay on Mondays if you go to ________.

A. Blue Sky Restaurant B. New York Museum

C. Tongcheng Shopping Center D. Huatian Hotel

【2】If you want to go out for lunch on Sunday, you can dial the number ________.

A. 4444872 B. 7868432 C. 2751352 D. 5674398

【3】If you are free on early Sunday mornings, you can go to ________.

A. Furong Road

B. 8090 White Road

C. Coffee Shop on 5200 No.7 Road

D. Vanier park, 1200 Chestnut St. New York

【4】Which place is still open after 10:00pm on Thursday?

A. Blue Sky Restaurant.

B. New York Museum.

C. Tongcheng Shopping Center.

D. Huatian Hotel.

【题目】 It was to you and not to anyone else I lent the money.

A. whom B. why C. that D. whether

【题目】Nuclear energy has always been controversial. But since the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima (Japan) last year the issue is back in the headlines. And the world is divided— some countries are planning more nuclear plants, while others have promised to shut theirs down.

After Fukushima, Germany decided to switch off all its nuclear plants by 2022. Switzerland and Italy are also phasing out nuclear power. But France and the United States remain staunch supporters of atomic energy. In fact, almost 80% of France’s electricity comes from nuclear power, the highest percentage in the world. And in the US, the Obama administration said it “continues to support the expansion of nuclear power, despite the crisis in Japan.”

Nuclear supporters claim nuclear power can help the environment. Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear power doesn’t create greenhouse gases. So, pro-nuclear countries argue that nuclear power allows them to generate energy without contributing to climate change. Britain’s chief scientific adviser (John Beddington) supports this view. He recently said that the world doesn’t have the luxury of ignoring nuclear energy.

Nuclear power is also relatively cheap. Renewable energy sources such as solar, hydro and wind power may be clean, but they’re expensive; and right now, they require a lot of investment. This higher cost of using “green energy” is usually passed onto the consumer. So, while many people may prefer their energy to come from a renewable source, not so many are prepared to pay higher energy bills. This is of particular concern while the world economy is in such bad shape.

The main argument against nuclear energy is that it isn’t safe. For a start, nuclear waste is very difficult to dispose of, and remains toxic to humans for thousands of years. And even before Fukushima, there were several high-profile nuclear disasters. The most famous is probably the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in the Ukraine. The radiation from the meltdown spread all over Europe, affecting thousands.

The nuclear energy issue is very complex. And it doesn’t look like it’ll be resolved anytime soon. As a Japanese commentator recently said, “it’s been a bad year for the ‘nuclear village’, but I don’t think they’re down and out yet.” The battle continues.

【1】Which of the following may NOT be the advantage of nuclear energy over other energy sources?

A. Nuclear energy doesn’t produce any greenhouse gases.

B. Nuclear energy can help prevent the climate damage.

C. Nuclear energy is more environmental-friendly than other green energy sources.

D. Nuclear energy can save the consumers some money, compared to other renewable energies.

【2】What does the underlined word “this ” refer to in paragraph 4?

A. The fact that many people prefer to use the green energy sources while unwilling to pay higher bill.

B. The cost of using renewable sources

C. The fact that the nuclear power is cheaper.

D. The investment of renewable energy sources

【3】In the 5th paragraph, the author takes the case of Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine to _______.

A. convince the reader that nuclear waste is difficult to get rid of.

B. explain that nuclear waste may remain harmful to humans for thousands of years.

C. persuade the world not to use nuclear energy.

D. support the idea that nuclear energy is not safe.

【4】We can learn from the last paragraph that _______.

A. the Japanese commentator is positive about the future of nuclear energy.

B. the nuclear energy issue will be soon settled.

C. a battle will break out in the future.

D. Japan is considering to build a nuclear village in the future.

【5】What is the author's purpose of writing the passage?

A. To highlight the danger of using nuclear energy.

B. To introduce some serious nuclear disasters.

C. To show the argument between nuclear supporters and protesters.

D. To give some advice on how to use nuclear energy safely.

【题目】根据汉语提示或首字母提示，在下面句子的每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确，并将该词完整地写在答题卡中相对应的横线上。

【1】Do you sing karaoke and （假装）you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan?

【2】I am now truly filled with （快乐）that I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race.

【3】At 3:42 am everything began to shake and it seemed as if the world was at an .

【4】It shows the importance of wildlife （保护）, but I’d like to help as the WWF suggests.

【5】Native English speakers can understand each other if they don’t speak the same kind of English.

【6】After （毕业）from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike trip.

【7】That is the m of the Olympic, you know — “Swifter, Higher, and Stronger”.

【8】But I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people （平等的）.

【9】The （设计）of the amber room was in the fancy style popular in those days.

【10】I was able to share my knowledge with others through the World Wide W .