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We may be very 31 (please) with the rapid progress we have made in every field of study, but we have almost done nothing to improve our present examination systems 32 focus on testing the students’ memory instead of their 33 ______ (able). As soon as a child begins school, he enters a world of examination 34 _________ will decide his future of job. In fact, a good examination system should encourage students to think 35 _________ themselves. But the examination now does nothing but that. It forces the students to remember 36 is taught to get high marks. Thus the students who come out first in the examination often many be the 37 (good) in their studies. In addition, such an examination system often 38 _____ (drive) teachers to cram all the time and forces them to train students what to do with the 39 ____ (come) examination.
There must be a better way to test a 40 (student) true ability as well as their knowledge.
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36. what 37. best 38. drives 39. coming 40. student’s
寒假乐园北京教育出版社系列答案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?
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A．The relationship between accents and social classes. |
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B．The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV. |
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C．The changes in a person’s accent. |
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D．The recent development of the English language. |
2.The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.
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A．she has been Queen for many years |
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B．she has a less upper-class accent now |
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C．her speeches are familiar to many people |
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D．her speeches have been recorded for 50 years |
3.Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?
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A．“dutay” |
B．“citee” |
C．“hame” |
D．“lorst” |
4.We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on ______.
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A．speech sounds |
B．Christmas customs |
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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. |