2014届陕西省西安市高考英语一轮复习训练：短文改错、阅读理解11（含答案）.docVIP

passage *** Mary was an university student. She didn’t have much 1 ____ money and her parents were not rich, and she had an uncle 2. ____ who had been fortunately enough to collect great wealth. 3. ____ He always give her valuable Christmas and birthday presents. 4. ____ When her uncle’s birthday came round, Mary wanted buy him 5. ____ something really special, but because she was rich, she did not 6. ____ know how to get him. She went into the best shop in her 7. ____ town and explained what her problem was to one of helpful 8. ____ shop assistants. Finally she asked, “What do you have for 9. ____ someone who has already got everything he wants or needs. 10 The assistant sighed deeply and answered, “Envy, only envy.” 【参考答案】Key 13 an—a 2 and—but 3 fortunately—fortunate 4 give—gave 5to buy 6.she—he 7how-what8the helpful. 9 assistant -- assistants 10 right *******************************************************结束 *********************************************************结束 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 newspape