第一节: 单词拼写（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）

根据下列句子，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式，每空一词。

I hate people speaking ill of me during my a ___________.

Having lost h____________ in one ear,he can’t tell the direction in which a voice comes.

The students were so b___________ that some of them fell asleep.

Her friend’s e___________ gave her the confidence to enter the competition.

He has been living abroad since he r_________ from his job. 

Without your a_______________, I couldn’t have succeeded. 

He had to pay more at the airport because his case was too o_____________.

The fire a________rang and everyone ran out of the building.

The thief was d________out of his hiding place and taken to the police station.

A v________is someone who does work without being paid for it, because they want to do it.

Originally, both the British and the American spoke with a rhotic accent. Rhotic essentially means an accent where the letter “r” is pronounced strongly after a vowel (元音). Rhotic accents are strong in both the US and Scotland, but seem to have disappeared from British English and its derivatives, such as Australian English and New Zealand English.

The major American accent –– the typical accent of the mid-western US –– is rhotic, and British English is, as a rule, non-rhotic. Specifically, US speakers pronounce every “r”, wherever they appear in a word. Most British speakers (and you will note that there are some British Isle accents that are strongly rhotic, like US) do not pronounce every “r”. Americans stress the “r” at the end of words such as “teacher” or “neighbour”, but in many non-rhotic British accents it is more of a “schwa” (an unstressed sound) so it comes out as, “teacha” (unstressed) or “neighba”.

This main difference also differs across the country of origin. For example, the US has a clear difference in the accents between people of the north and south, not to mention less clear differences across the states. Similarly, British people have a different accent according to their locality. The “cockney (伦敦东区)” accent is greatly different to the middle and upper class accents.

Another common difference appears to be that Americans pronounce words such as “herbal” without the “h”. Syllables (音节) may be stressed differently, too. “Oregano” in the US tends to be pronounced “o–reg–a–no” while in British English it is more likely to be “o–reg–AH–no”.

【小题1】When a rhotic accent occurs, ______.

A. the letter “r” is silent in any positions         B. the letter “r” is sounded after a vowel

C. the ending syllable of a word is stressed      D. the ending syllable of a word is unheard

【小题2】The underlined word “derivatives” in the first paragraph probably means “_____”.

A. neighbours                      B. ancestors           C. symbols                   D. branches

【小题3】In non-rhotic British accents, ______.

A. “bother” sounds the same as “buther”                 B. “cheaper” sounds the same as “chapter”

C. “worker” sounds the same as “worka”                D. “painting” sounds the same as “paintin”

【小题4】Even in the original country of the specific English language, accents differ ____.

A. from area to area                                        B. from person to person

C. from word to word                                    D. from stress to stress

【小题5】American people trend to pronounce words like “herbal” with the “h” ______.

A. stressed                          B. silent                                                           C. changed                 D. loud

用Book6 Modules5-6和Book 7 Modules1-2所学单词的适当形式填空

1.My parents are _____________ (厌恶 ) at the violence in the film.

2._____________（陪伴）by Hammond’s two grandchildren, they are sent on a tour through Jurassic Park in computer-controlled cars.

3.Many questions have a__________ from the recent changes in law.

4.“For the Fallen” can be seen on war m_______________ in many parts of the world.

5.All ______________(全体职员) of the company are eligible (有资格)for being promoted.

6.They have ______________ (犯罪)many horrible crimes against the Chinese people.

7.As a child, Chamberlain had _____________(各种各样的) health problems.

8.I have to say, the h ______________ of the year was the senior prom.

9.Afterwards , we went and had an _____________(巨大的)breakfast in a nearby hotel.

10.During the Easter vacation, I went on a short school ________(滑雪) trip to the Rocky Mountains.

Then        we had been looking forward to.

用方框内单词的适当形式填空。(请将答案写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。)