7. 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

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

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

5. 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

4．The probable explanation to Mr. Evans’ long life lies in _________.

A. his good living habits　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　B. his hard working for the family

C. his sticking to his hometown　　　　　　　　　 　　　 D. his living conditions near the Swansea

B

　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 heard 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.

3．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？

A. Mr. Evans had to work hard to raise his family when young.

B. The trip to London excited Mr. Evans very much.

C. Mr. Evans could not really enjoy the trip because of his age.

D. Humor was one of Mr. Evans’ characters.

2. Mr Evans didn’t like the wheelchair simply because _________.

A. he was not used to traveling in it

B. the wheelchair was of poor quality and not easy to operate

C. he actually preferred walking to sitting in it at home

D. he thought he was still young enough to manage the trip

1. The very reason that Mr. Evans didn’t go to see the world is that _________.

A. he had already been on the seas to Ilfracombe

B. he was too busy to go too far away from home

C. he couldn’t afford both the time and the money

D. he believed “East or west, home is best”

第二节　 书面表达(满分25分)

你校正在开展创建节约型社会的活动。可是在日常生活中你发现你校校内的浪费现象严重。请你根据下表所列的内容给校报写一篇文章，反映现象，讲明后果，提出建议，提倡从我做起，建设节约型校园。

注意：

1、词数为100左右。

2、参考词汇：节约型校园a resource-saving campus ; 经济负担financial burden

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