辽宁省大连市2016_2017学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题201703090391.docVIP

2016～2017学年度第一学期期末考试试卷 高二英语 注意事项： 1．请在答题纸上作答，在试卷上作答无效。 2．本试卷分第一卷和第二卷，共120分，考试时间100分钟。 第一卷 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 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 country since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation. 　　Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there 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 . “Her accent sounds 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 results were published in the Journal of Phonetics(语音学). 1. Why did Jonathan Harrington choose the Queen’s broadcast for the study? 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. The Queen began to pronounce “lost” about _______ ago. A. 20 years B. 40 years C. 60 years D. 80 years 3. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English? bleck B. het C. home D. thet 4. The passage is probably taken from a magazine on _______. A. speech sounds B. Christmas customs C. TV plays D. world changes B In Los Angeles, dr