2008年西藏高考英语考试及答案

　　【高考考点】细节理解题。

　　【试题解析】第一段Mrs. Thompson. She told the children on the first day that she loved them all the same. But that was a lie…But that was a lie.可以看出她说爱班上每一人不是真话，Teddy令她讨厌。

　　42. What did Mrs. Thompson find out about Teddy?

　　A. He often told lies.

　　B. He was good at math.

　　C. He needed motherly care.

　　D. He enjoyed playing with others.

　　【标准答案】C。

　　【高考考点】细节理解题。

　　【试题解析】从文章第二段开始Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his mother. 知道Teddy在妈妈去世前是一个好孩子，只是在母亲去世后，才变得不爱和别人玩，变得很脏，不讨人喜欢。Teddy送了Mrs. Thompson一瓶香水后，说Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to.可以看出Teddy缺乏母爱，需要母爱。

　　43. In what way did Mrs. Thompson change?

　　A. She taught fewer school subjects.

　　B. She became stricter with her students.

　　C. She no longer liked her job as a teacher.

　　D. She cared more about educating students.

　　【标准答案】D。

　　【高考考点】细节理解题。

　　【试题解析】从文章第三段的On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she began to teach children.可以看出，Mrs. Thompson不单单是教授学生们文化课程，而是更加在思想上和孩子们沟通。

　　44. Why did Teddy thank Mrs. Thompson at his wedding?

　　A. She had kept in touch with him.

　　B. She had given him encouragement.

　　C. She had sent him Christmas presents.

　　D. She had taught him how to judge people.

　　【标准答案】B。

　　【高考考点】细节理解题。

　　【试题解析】从文章第四、五段可以看出，通过Mrs. Thompson的特别关注和鼓励，Teddy 进步很快，成了班上优秀的学生，后来还考上了大学，拿到了医学博士学位。

　　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.

　　阅读B篇则主要通过对50年来英国女王为国民每年祝词的录音研究，论证了人的口音会变化这一事实。

　　45. 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

　　【标准答案】D。

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