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（0085）《英语阅读二》复习思考题 考试范围：主要复习Unit7－12单元中下列各课： The Time Machine The celebrated Jumping frog of Calaveras county The Lady or the tiger Prometheus The Story of the Bible ⅠText Comprehension (10 points) Direction: Each of the following comprehension questions, based on the texts you have learned, is provided with 4 possible answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question. 目的：主要考察以上课文中的内容、情节、主题、人物。具体内容已在网络课件中有详尽介绍。 题型：选择题，共计10小题，每题1分。 示例： The story of The Time Machine is based on ____. C A. a person’s dreamB. a person’s experience C. a science fiction D. a scientific plan Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (40 points) Direction: There are some reading passages followed by 20 questions or unfinished statements. For each of the questions there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Please decide on the best answer. 目的：主要考察学生运用所学技能阅读各类题材、体裁的文章。各类阅读技能详见网络视频教学。 题型：选择题，共计20小题，每题2分。 Passage 1 Passage Queen Elizabeth II’s pronunciation of English has been infected by her subjects, Aussie scientists say. Phoneticists from Sydneys Macquarie University studied archive recordings of the Queens annual Christmas message to the Commonwealth from the 1950s to1980s, analyzing her Majestys vowels. They then compared those vowels with the standard accent of southern England, as used by female British broadcasters on the BBC in the 1980s, to see how the royal accent had changed. Their conclusion: the cut-glass speech of the early years of the Queens reign has become—how shall we say—somewhat commoner over the years. That in itself subtly mirrors the changes is Britain, from a country with a rigid social hierarchy(等级制度)four decades ago to one where class differences have blurred and in some areas disappeared. “The Queens pronunciation of some vowels has been influenced by the standard southern-British accent of the 1980s which is more typically associated with speakers who are younger and lower in the social hierarchy,”the researchers say. Standard speech in southern Engla