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　　The Munich October Festival is the biggest public festival in the world, which will be held from 17^th Sep．to 3^rd Oct．this year．Each year, the October Festival is attended by around 6 million visitors, who drink around 5 million liters of beer and consume over 200,000 pairs of pork sausages-mostly in the“beer tents”put up by the traditional Munich breweries(酿酒厂)．

　　At the foot of the Bavaria statue, the huge October Festival grounds also provide carousels(喧闹的酒会), roller coasters(过山车)and all the fun of the fair for the enjoyment and excitement of visitors of all ages．The festivities are accompanied by a program of events including the Grand Entry of the Beer Festival Landlords and Breweries, and the Costume and Riflemen's Procession．

　　The History of the October Festival can retrospect to the 19th century．Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, married on 12th October 1810．The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event．Horse races in the presence of the Royal Family marked the close of the event that was celebrated as a festival for the whole of Bavaria．In 1811 an added feature to the horse races was the first Agricultural Show, designed to promote Bavarian agriculture．The horse races, which were the oldest and the most popular event of the festival are no longer held today．But the Agricultural Show is still held every three years during the October Festival on the southern part of the festival grounds．

　　In the first few decades, the choice of amusements was less．The first carousel and two swings were set up in 1818．Visitors were able to finish their thirst at small beer stands, which grew rapidly in number．In 1896 the beer stands were replaced by the first beer tents and halls set up by enterprising landlords with the help of the breweries．

　　Today, the Munich October Festival is the largest one in the world, with an international flavor characteristic of the 21st century: some 6 million visitors from all around the world gather on the October Festival each year．

(1)

What would be the best title for the passage?
[　　]
A．	A happy Royal Event．
B．	A Harvest Time．
C．	The Munich October Festival．
D．	A Carnival Procession．

(2)

Why did the Beer Festival originally come into being?
[　　]
A．	To meet the needs of 6 million visitors．
B．	To celebrate a royal event．
C．	For the enjoyment and excitement of visitors of all ages．
D．	For the coming of autumn．

(3)

The October Festival will provide many forms of amusements this year except ________．
[　　]
A．	Grand Entry of the Beer Festival Landlords and Breweries．
B．	Agricultural Show．
C．	Costume and Riflemen's Procession．
D．	Horse Racing．

(4)

The underlined phrase“retrospect to”in Paragraph 2 probably means ________．
[　　]
A．	date back to
B．	look back
C．	result in
D．	stick to

答案：1．C;2．B;3．D;4．A;

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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.

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.

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

Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?

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

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 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.

【小题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

【小题3】Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?

【小题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

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Cannstatter Volkfest, Stuttgart, Germany

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Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

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B．have planned to go for traveling this autumn

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C．taste traditional, paper – wrapped fish and clips

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