辽宁省大连市2016-2017学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

2016～2017学年度第一学期期末考试试卷 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。 A 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(贵族的) way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had changed little by little. “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, drivers spend sixty-one hours every year stuck in traffic. These drivers know how bad the traffic can be. “There’re too many cars, and you can’t move around a lot.” Professor Cyrus Shahabi also knows about traffic jams. He lives more than 65 kilometers from his office at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. He is always late even with the help of a navigation (导航) system. He decided to develop a program called ClearPath. He says his program uses historical data to predict traffic conditions even before the driver leaves the house.“What’s unique(独特的) is that we use a lot of data and we analyze that so that we can predict what’s going to happen in front of you when you leave home.” Professor Shahabi says his system has many functions. With ClearPath, he says, a driver can decide what time he wants to leave, and ClearPath will give the fastest route. It looks at the whole road network, including surface streets as well as highways, before the driver hits the road. Professor Shahabi hopes ClearPath will be used ... ...