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the sound of music 英文介绍
the sound of music 英文介绍"The Sound of Music" is a classic American musical film released in 1965. It is based on the Broadway musical with the same name, which was inspired by the real-life story of the Von Trapp family in Austria during World War II. The film was directed by Robert Wise and starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.The story revolves around Maria, a young postulant in an Austrian abbey who is sent to be the governess of Captain Georg Von Trapp's seven children. Through her love for music and her warm-hearted nature, Maria brings joy and happiness to the children and their strict father.Set against the backdrop of the looming war, "The Sound of Music" not only showcases the power of music but also explores themes of family, love, and freedom. The film is filled with memorable songs such as "Do-Re-Mi," "Edelweiss," and "My Favorite Things," which have become iconic in popular culture."The Sound of Music" became a massive hit upon its release, and its success continues to this day. It won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $286 million worldwide. The film's timeless appeal can be attributed to its delightful story, beautiful scenery, and captivating performances by the cast."The Sound of Music" has captured the hearts of audiences around the world for generations. It remains a beloved musical that has stood the test of time and continues to enchant viewers of all ages with its enchanting melodies and touching story.。
专业英语四级模拟试卷260(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语四级模拟试卷260(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. DICTATION 2. LISTENING COMPREHENSION 3. CLOZE 4. GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY 5. READING COMPREHENSION 6. WRITINGPART I DICTATION (15 MIN)Directions: Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minute 1．正确答案：The Historical Significance of American Revolution The American Revolution represents the link between the seventeenth century, / in which modern England became conscious of itself, / and the awakening of modern Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. / It may seem strange that the march of history should have had to cross the Atlantic Ocean, / but only in the North American colonies could a straggle for civic liberty/lead also to the foundation of a new nation. / Here, in the popular rising against a “tyrannical” government, / the fruits were more than the securing of a freer constitution. /They included the growth of a nation horn in liberty by the will of the people, / not from the roots of common descent, / a geographic entity, or the ambitions of king or dynasty. / With the American nation, /for the first time, a nation was born, /not in the dim past of history/but before the eyes of the whole world.PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION (20 MIN)Directions: In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.SECTION A CONVERSATIONSDirections: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.听力原文：W: You’re an expert on urban problem, Mr. Cross. [1] I wonder how you would describe the characteristics of these enormous cities which have sprung up in Asia and Latin America?M: The first point to make is that they are different from large cities in Europe and America.W: Surely all large cities are essentially similar.M: It’s true that in all large cities there are the same problems of provision of housing and services, but the difference lies in the time factor.W: Surely some of the cities we areconsidering are just as old and, in some cases, much older, than cities in the United States, for instance.M: Very true, but the large cities of Europe and the United States grew relatively slowly. [2] London had a population of more than a million at the beginning of the nineteenth century and this number grew for more than a hundred years until it reached its maximum of more than eight million. And this growth was parallel to industrial growth throughout the country. The same is true of New York, for example.W: But this is not true of Mexico City or Buenos Aries?M: No, it is not. [3] Throughout Latin America and in parts of Asia, cities have grown much faster than industry, or agriculture for that matter. Some of these cities have quadrupled in size in less than two decades, while industrial growth over the same period may only have reached thirty or forty percent.2．Where have many large cities sprung up according to the conversation?A．In Latin America, Europe and Asia.B．In Latin America and Europe.C．In Latin America and parts of Asia.D．In Europe and America.正确答案：C解析：对话开始部分女士说到，她想知道Mr. Cross对在亚洲和拉丁美洲涌现的大城市特点有何看法，由此可知正确答案为C。
American English pronunciation of the d sound and t sound
#2: American English pronunciation of the d sound and t soundepisode002.mp3Learn how to create the t sound and t sound in English.TranscriptWelcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. This is podcast number two. My name is Mandy.I introduced the concept of voiced and unvoiced sounds during the th sounds podcast. In case you've forgotten, we have both a voiced and an unvoiced th sound. I also hope you remember that the th sounds are a type of sound called fricatives. Fricatives are continuous sounds that are created by allowing only a small amount of air to leave the mouth. Today I am going to tell you about another kind of consonant sound, the stops. Specifically, we are going to explore the t sound (t sound) and d sound (d sound). These sounds are called stops because to create them, we briefly stop all air from leaving the mouth, and we then make the sound when the air is released.Do you remember from last week's show that consonants often have voiced and unvoiced pairs? The d sound and t sound is another pair. Before we talk about how to correctly create the English version of these sounds, I want you to play with the inside of your mouth with your tongue. Don't feel silly, nobody can actually see you doing this. Notice that right behind your upper teeth, you have a hard, bony（very thin ）, bump. That bump was necessary for creating the friction of our th sounds last week. Then that bump rises and there is a slope up to the roof of your mouth, which is also hard and bumpy. Then, if you place the tip of your tongue all the way to the back of your mouth, you feel some soft tissue. We will keep coming back to these three places at the top of your mouth. I will call them the tooth ridge, that's that bump at the front, the roof of the mouth, that's the hard bony part in the middle, and the soft palette, that's the soft part at the back of your mouth.Now, back to our d sound and t sound. When creating these two sounds, your tongue should briefly touch the front of the tooth ridge, then let go with a small puff of air. The difference between the sounds is the use of our vocal cords. In case you haven't noticed yet, the d sound is the voiced sound, and the t sound is the unvoiced sound. (d sound, t sound)An error I specifically hear with the d sound and t sound is that the tip of the tongue is pressed against the roof of the mouth or at the very back of that ridge instead of at the front of it. This is called retroflexing, and it creates a different sound than the American d sound or t sound.According to Wikipedia, retroflexing is not common among European languages, but is common for the languages of the Indian subcontinent.This very much agrees with my teaching experience. My students who speak Hindi, Tamil, and Punjabi all tend to retroflextheir d sound and t sound s. It creates a hollow sound. If you are a native speaker of a language from India, pay special attention to these two sounds.Another error I hear is that many students don't allow the puff of air to come out after the initial stop of the sound. That puff of air is where the majority of the sound comes from and is even more important at the beginning of a word than the end of the word.If your native language does not have both the t sound and the d sound in all parts of a word, it is likely that you will substitute one for the other. I hear students not voice the d sound more frequently（often）than accidentally（by chance or by mistake）voicing a t sound, but it does go both ways.Let's practice some d sound/t sound minimal pairs. I want you to notice the placement of your tongue during the sound, the puff of air that comes out of your mouth when the tongue releases, and whether the sound is voiced or unvoiced.Ready? Repeat after me if you want the most benefit of this podcast.dime, timedense, tensecode, coattide, tightspend, spentVery good.Most people who have visited or lived in the United States have noticed that we sometimes do some strange things to represent the t sound. We don't always say a t sound where we would see the letter t written. I promise I will come back to those strange issues in later podcasts. It is actually rather complicated, but there are guidelines to help you. For now, just work on correctly saying the sounds.Understanding voiced and unvoiced sounds is also a key component of understanding -ed endings. We pronounce the -ed differently based on the last sound of the original word. I promise I will also address that in an upcoming podcast.That's all for the d sound and t sound today. Don't forget to also keep practicing the sentence from the th sounds podcast, "Think about this thing, that thing, and those things" in addition to our 5 miminal pairs from today. Let's repeat those one more time.dime, timedense, tensecode, coattide, tightspend, spentNice job everyone, and thanks for listening.。
美国文学选择题2014
1. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."A. "Nature"B. "Self-Reliance"C. "Divinity School Address"D. "The American Scholar"2. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is stilla mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. StubbD. Starbuck3. Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "mass" and the _______ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life4. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _______ .A. rationalB. humorousC. optimisticD. pessimistic5. Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .A. The GeniusB. The TycoonC. The StoicD. The Giant6. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ________ .A. local colorismB. imagismC. modernismD. naturalism7. It is on his _______ that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.A. childhood recollectionsB. sketches about his European toursC. early poetryD. tales about America8. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. The Wasteland.B. The Scarlet Letter.C. Leaves of Grass.D. As I Lay Dying9. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______.A. conversational and crudeB. lyrical and well-structuredC. simple and rather crudeD. free-flowing10. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?A. FreudB. Darwin.C. W.D. Howells.D. Emerson11. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism12. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.A. the Romantic PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Naturalist PeriodD. the Modern Period13. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by（）.A. e.e. Cummings C. Ezra PoundB. T.S. Eliot D. Robert Frost14. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______.A. the force of conventionB. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracyD. the corruption of the newly rich15. "Two roads diverged in a yellow woodAnd sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by i mplication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life16. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.A. insignificantB. vicious by natureC. divineD. forward-looking17. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?A. The House of the Seven Gables.B. The Blithedale Romance.C. The Marble Falun.D. White Jacket.18. _________is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William FaulknerD. F. Scott Fitzgerald19. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.A. commentatorsB. observersC. villainsD. saviors20. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.A. poetic theoryB. French artC. history of New YorkD. life of George Washington21. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is to show _______.A. emptiness of lifeB. the corruption of the upper classC. contrast of the rich and the poorD. the happy days of the Jazz Age22. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Dreiser’s Sister CarrieC. Copper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau’s Walden23. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?A. The Sound and the FuryB. Uncle To m’s Cabin.C. Daisy Miller.D. The Gilded Age.24. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Religion.B. Life and death.C. Love and marriage.D. War and peace.25. Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the _______ movement.A. transcendentalB. leftistC. expatriateD. expressionistic26. As an autobiographical play, O'Neill's _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A. The Iceman ComethB. Long Day's Journey Into NightC. The Hairy ApeD. Desire Under the Elms27. Apart from the dislocation （错位）of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include _______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.A. impressionismB. expressionismC. multiple points of viewD. first person point of view28. Stylistically, Henry James' fiction is characterized by _______ .A. short, clear sentencesB. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD. highly refined language29. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms with a plain speech of _______ farmers .A. SouthernB. WesternC. New HampshireD. New England30. Henry David Thoreau's work, ________has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A. WaldenB. The pioneersC. NatureD. Song of Myself31. The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle” helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A. concern with the passage of timeB. expression of transient (短暂的）beautyC. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD. idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life32.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. iambic pentameter33. In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes _______ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A. natureB. human societyC. whaling industryD. truth34. Hester, Dimmsdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A. The Scarlet LetterB. The House of the Seven GablesC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The pioneers35. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _______ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism36. After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A. Life on the MississippiB. The Gilded AgeC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court37. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _____.A. transcendentalistsB. idealistsC. pessimistsD. impressionists38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie, there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel, “Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place.” Why did he do this? Because ________.A. he wanted to commit suicideB. he wanted to keep the room warmC. he didn’t want to be found by othersD. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind39.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary history.A .individual feelingsB. idea of survival of the fittestC. strong imaginationD. return to nature40. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson41. The Hemingway Code heroes（硬汉形象）are best remembered for their __.A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity (男性，男子气）42. IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the _____ of human beings in a hostile universe.A. helpless situationB. uncertaintyC. profound religious faithD. courage and perseverance43. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .[A]1820[B]1850[C]1880[D]192044.The subj ect matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .[A] ordinary country people and scenes[B]battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends[C]struggling masses and crowded urban quarters[D]fantasies and mythical happenings45.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner[D]Jack London and O’Henry.46.To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of _____and heredity.[A]fate[B]morality[C]social conventions[D]environment47.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.[A]the evil in man’s heart[B]the material pursuit[C]the racial conflict[D]the social inequality48._______ provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.[A]The puritan heritage[B]Howells’ ideas of realism[C]Darwin’s theory of evolution[D]The pioneer spirit of the wild west49.In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that______ .[A]Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate[B]there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck[C]Huck is always an indecisive person[D]Huck has very little education50.Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their fiction?[A]Fragmentation （崩溃）and alienation.[B]Courage and honor.[C]Tradition and faith.[D]Poverty and desperation.51.Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except .[A]a strict poetic form[B]a simple and conversational language[C]a free and natural rhythmic pattern[D]an easy flow of feelings52.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ____.[A]prolific (多产的）[B]artistic.[C]optimistic[D]pessimistic53.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?[A] exquisite and elaborate language[B]minute and detailed descriptions[C]lengthy psychological analyses[D]American colloquialism54.In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths.” The author most likely indicates that______ .[A]there was a crowd of party-goers[B]such life does not have real meaning[C]these people were light-hearted[D]these were crazy and ignorant characters55.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?[A]He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.[B]His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.[C]He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.[D]He represents a new group of Southern writers.56._________is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain57.By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes, “It was forever to the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world.” Dreiser implies that_____ .[A]there is a bright future lying ahead[B]there is no end to man’s desire[C]one should always be forward-looking[D]happiness is found in the end58. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______.A. is a wealth ladyB. has good tasteC. is a prisoner of the pastD. is a conservative aristocrat59. ________ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William FaulknerD. F. Scott Fitzgerald60.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is（）.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia（怀旧之情）for the unrecoverable past61.Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg。
2021年新概念英语第四册多项选择题
公寄社屁尖阻仟古廷哂囂及膨過謹・僉夲籾酔栖匯軟僥楼杏・和中祥才寄社・栖仞匯和杏。
仟古廷哂囂及膨過謹・僉夲籾The sporting spiritMultiple choice questions 謹・僉夲籾Choose the correct answers to the following questions.Comprehension 尖盾1・The writer questions the assumption that ______.a.people enjoy sportb.there are general principles governing sportc.sport makes war less likelyd.sport is enjoyed by common people2・According to the writer, the only purpose of competitive games is_______.a.beating your opponentb.getting plenty of exercisesc.having fund.doing your best3・A competitive sportsman is likely to feel _____ if he loses.a.patriotismb.savagec.shamed.even more competitive4・At the international level _____.a.the players are at war with each otherb.the spectators take part in the sporting contestsc.nations appear to be at war with one anotherd.sport brings out the best qualities in a nationStructure 鞘侏1・If only ______ possible for the common peoples tomeet eachother.(11-2)a.it would beb.it could bec.it wered.it might be2・You play ______ win.(6)a.in order tob.in order thatc.so thad.for3・The village green is the _____ you pick sides.(7)a.the placeb.the timec.the reasond.the cause4・______ the question of national prestige arises ´ (18-9)a.The momentb.Justc.As long asd.ProvidingVocabulary簡祉1・If we could meet at football, we would have no _____ to meet on thebattlefield.(11-2)a.bentb.feelingc.opportunityd.desire2・You could _____ from general principles that international sportingcontests lead to orgies ofhatred.(14-5)a.includeb.concludec.excluded.delude3・If you lose, the ______ combative instincts are aroused.(19-10)a.wildestb.most seriousc.most frighteningd.most dangerous4・The ____ thing is not the behaviour of the players -(111-12)a.importantb.unusualc.signald.obvious仟古廷哂囂及膨過謹・僉夲籾BatsMultiple choice questions 謹・僉夲籾Choose the correct answers to the following questions.Comprehension 尖盾1・What happens if you shout on a mountainsidea.You will be able to measure distance.b.Nothing.c.It will take a long time for an echo to come back.d.You will hear an echo.2・You can measure the depth of the sea by ____.a.shouting so you get back an echob.tapping on the hull of a shipc.working out how long it takes to get an echo from the sea bottomd.calculating the reflection3・The echo-location principle means you can even ____.a.locate and distinguish different species of fishb.hear a fish's echoc.improve the apparatus now in used.easily catch different species of fish4・Bats use echo-location to ____.a.see where they're goingb.avoid bumping into thingsc.avoid flying insectsd.emit squeaksStructure 鞘侏1・Not ____sound made by animals serves aslanguage.(l.1)a.everyb.eachc.the wholed.the entire2・We have only to turn to that extraordinarydiscovery of echo-location inbats to see a case____the voice plays a strictly utilitarian role.(11-2)a.whichb.wherec.whend.why3・____ he shout in the vicinity of a wall, an echo will come back.(4)a.Shouldb.Ifc.Whend.Though4・____ the echo-sounding apparatus was born.(17-8)a.Suchb.The wayc.That's howd.Like thisVocabulary 簡祉1・The voice plays a strictly ____ role.(2)a.secondaryb.importantuald.practical2・A sound made by ____ the hull of a ship - (15-6)a.hittingb.knockingc.beatingd.bashing3・The sound varies ____the size and nature of the object.(18-9)a.depending onb.relating toc.influencingd.by4・A ____ of fish will do this.(9)a.classb.herdc.schoold.flock仟古廷哂囂及膨過謹・僉夲籾Trading standardsMultiple choice questions 謹・僉夲籾Choose the correct answers to the following questions.Comprehension 尖盾1・Which one of these statements is truea.American farmers are the only ones who are complaining about tradingstandards.b.Problems with trading standards don't affect only American farmers.c.Europe is happy to import American poultry.d.There is general agreement about regulations for world trade.2・An electric razor made in the EU can only be sold in the US ____.a.if it conforms with European required standardsb.when it is safe to usec.when it has hit the markets in Europed.after it has been given approval by US authorities3・Business people on both sides of the Atlantic ____.a.question whether two sets of tests are necessaryb.think the present situation is satisfactoryc.have agreed to abandon two sets of testsd.have set up a single test which has everyone's approval4・The main difference between the two sides is that ____.a.it's difficult to construct agreementsb.one side wants a general agreement and the other wants lots of separateonesc.neither of them can agree about electronic goods and drugmanufacturingd.the EU follows fine continental traditionsStructure 鞘侏1・American farmers can't export chickens to Europe____ differences innational regulations.(1)a.throughb.according toc.in respect ofd.because of2・An electric razor from the EU ____ sold in the USunless it meets USstandards.(14-5)a.oughtn't to beb.can't bec.shouldn't bed.doesn't have to be3・America and the EU ____ to reach a deal.(9)a.are still tryingb.always tryc.triedd.were trying4・The details are ____ that they may be hard-pressed to get adeal.(111-12)a.so complexb.enough complexc.such complexityd.too complexVocabulary 簡祉1・There are many differences in national ____.(12-3)wsb.rulesmandsd.orders2・An electric razor that ____ Europe must be approved by Americantesters.(14-5)a.fitsb.matchesc.is suitable ford.likes3・America and the EU have been trying to get ____ double tests.(9)a.away fromb.rid ofc.out ofd.lost in4・Although negotiators are ____ (11)a.clear-sightedb.uncertainc.hopefuld.enthusiasti仟古廷哂囂及膨過謹・僉夲籾Royal espionageMultiple choice questions 謹・僉夲籾Choose the correct answers to the following questions.Comprehension 尖盾1・Why was it easy for Alfred the Great to visit the Danish camp disguisedas a minstrela.Because no one would recognize him.b.Because he had learned many Danish ballads in his youth.c.Because minstrels were able to travel freely in those days.d.Because no one would refuse hospitality to a king.2・At the Chippenham camp, King Alfred took special note of the fact that____.a.the camp was easy to penetrateb.the Danish commander, Guthrum, had a lot of confidencec.winter was setting ind.the Danes were unprepared for war3・From what he had seen, Alfred concluded that ____.a.he would have to stay in the Danish camp for a weekb.his small army was not necessarily a disadvantagec.the Danes would be dangerous in a prolonged battled.the Danes could survive indefinitely on irregular raids4・One of the factors that led to the Danish surrender was that ____.a.the Danes could no longer depend on irregular raids to obtain foodb.King Alfred engaged in open battlec.this was a unique epic of royal espionaged.they surrendered within a monthStructure 鞘侏1・Minstrels were not men ____ in battle.(2)a.who fightb.to fightc.fightingd.they fight2・The Danes collected women ____food and drink.(9)a.alsob.bothc.in addition tod.moreover3・Alfred stayed in the camp a week before ____to Athelney.a.returningb.to returnc.to returningd.return4・So,____ with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk openbattle.(14)a.he was facedb.on being facedc.he facedd.in the faceVocabulary 簡祉1・Alfred was disguised so no one ____ him.(1)a.recognizedb.understoodc.knewd.met2・Alfred____ at once that discipline was slack.(7)a.regardedb.remarkedc.sawd.attended3・The force there ____was trivial compared with the Danishhorde.(111-12)a.gatheredb.picked upc.constitutedd.picked4・His patrols ____the raiding parties.(15)a.attackedb.preventedc.held backd.put an end to仟古廷哂囂及膨過謹・僉夲籾仟古廷哂囂及膨過及46仁:Hobbies仟古廷哂囂及膨過及20仁:Snake poison仟古廷哂囂及膨過及11仁:How to grow old仟古廷哂囂及匯過及41-42仁:Penny's bag仟古廷哂囂及屈過仟古廷哂囂及眉過仟古廷哂囂及匯過...及匯過仟古廷哂囂及匯過及69-70仁:The car rac 10.仟古廷哂囂及膨過及46仁:Hobbies。
东北师范大学智慧树知到“英语”《英美文学》网课测试题答案2
东北师范大学智慧树知到“英语”《英美文学》网课测试题答案（图片大小可自由调整）第1卷一.综合考核(共15题)1.With Bellow and Singer as Nobel Prize winners, the status of Jewish Literature as an important part of American Literature has been firmly established.()A.错误B.正确2.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century. French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ____.A.vernacularismB.naturalismC.modernismD.local colorism3.____ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style. that American Literature ever produced”.A.Washington IrvingB.Walt WhitmanC.Henry David ThoreauD.Edgar Ellen Poe4.“My last Duchess” is a poem that best mplifies Robert Browning's ____.A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue5.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the of ____.A.odeB.elegyC.epicD.sonnet6.The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.()A.正确B.错误7.In Hardy's Tess of D'urbervilles, the heroines tragic ending is due to ____.A.her weak characterB.her ambitionC.Angel Clares selfishnessD.a hostile society8.“This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether.” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that ____.A.the Duchess was killed by her husbandB.the Duchess stopped smiling at her husbands orderC.the Duchess died of laughing too muchD.the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested9.In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for mor e” . What did Oliver ask for more?A.More time to playB.More money to spendC.More food to eatD.More books to read10.Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou makst thy knife keen. In the above quotation taken form. The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a(n) ____ .A.synecdocheB.simileC.punD.oxymoron11.In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures.()A.正确B.错误12.The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.()A.正确B.错误13.In her works, Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures.()A.错误B.正确14.Beowulf is a national epic of ____.A.ScandinaviaB.GermanyC.FranceD.England15.Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures?____A.IrvingB.CooperC.Melville第2卷一.综合考核(共15题)1.Angry Young Man of the 1950's most came from ____.A.the lower classB.the upper classC.peasantsD.workers2.The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.A.EnlightenmentB.RenaissanceC.ChartistD.Romanticist3.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.()A.错误B.正确4.In Shakespeare's comedies the heroes and heroines attained their victory without much struggle.()A.错误B.正确5.Irving was regarded as ____.A.father of American dramaB.father of American poetryC.father of American Literature6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“____in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epicB.romanceC.lyric epicic epic7.Irving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle.()A.错误B.正确8.The publication of ____ established Emerson as the spokesman of Transcendentalism.A.NatureB.Self-relianceC.The American Scholar9.ChineseAmerican Literature can be defined as literature by and about ____ in America.A.Chinese studentsB.Chinese immigrantsn immigrants10.Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.()A.正确B.错误11.John Bunyan's pilgrim's progress is often regarded as a typical example of ____.A.romanceB.fableC.epic in proseD.allegory12.____ pen name was Mark Twain.A.William Dean HowellsB.Samuel Langhorne ClemensC.Henry James13.Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by ____.A.None of the abovenglandC.ChaucerD.Bede14.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ____, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.A.multiple points of viewB.impressionismC.first person point of viewD.expressionism15.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?A.More time to playB.More money to spendC.More food to eatD.More book to read第1卷参考答案一.综合考核1.参考答案：B2.参考答案：B3.参考答案：A4.参考答案：D5.参考答案：A6.参考答案：A7.参考答案：D8.参考答案：A9.参考答案：C 10.参考答案：C11.参考答案：A12.参考答案：B13.参考答案：B14.参考答案：D15.参考答案：B第2卷参考答案一.综合考核1.参考答案：A2.参考答案：C3.参考答案：A4.参考答案：A5.参考答案：C6.参考答案：D7.参考答案：B8.参考答案：A9.参考答案：B10.参考答案：A11.参考答案：D12.参考答案：B13.参考答案：A14.参考答案：A15.参考答案：C。
The Sound and Style of American English
The Sound and Style of American EnglishSpeaking with an accent that sounds real to native speakers expands your audition and professional potential. SSAE is really simply learning concepts and skills that make your English easier to understand as well as sound very much like a native English speaker. These skills are all you need to improve your pronunciation, and for people that speak English as a second language and wants to speak perfect American English.There are two basic skills you must learn right away if you want your speech to sound more American.First, you must learn the correct intonation. It means the pitch changes and rhythms of a language or dialect. Once you begin Americanizing your intonation, native speakers will almost immediately become more comfortable with your speech and begin following your ideas much more easily.Second, you must change the way you move your moth muscles during the speech. Every language or dialect has a unique way its speakers move their mouths. This leads to the language's special "sound" -- its very own resonance or voice tone. To reduce your accent, you must stop using the muscles as you did with your first language and substitute movements that produce this uniquely American tone.How long does it take? This depends on you primarily. Some Students study for an average of 2 - 3 months, some just a few weeks; some for over a year. It depends on how much you practice and the scope of what you would like to learn. These skills are all you need to improve your pronunciation, and for people that speak English as a second language and wants to speak perfect American English.Skill 1: Jump Up and Step Down Intonation PatternsWell-spoken American speech does not stay on one note inside phrases and sentences. Many languages do that. Many people with accents speak monotone English even if their original language has pitch change. Many people with accents become more understandable, more expressive and sound much less foreign just by using the kind of pitch changes which American ears are used to hearing.American speech has what we call a “jump up and step down” pattern of pitch change. That means that inside each phrase or unit of thought, the pitch jumps up to a higher note on an early important word, but the pitch doesn‟t stay up there and it doesn‟t drop down all the way or once either. Instead, it starts to step down slowly but surely on each and every syllable after the pitch jump.For example, It‟s very nice to meet you. Make the upward pitch jumps very big and make sure that you can really hear the downwardmovements as you step down in between syllables. Make sure that you hear that very clear downward step on each and every syllable after the jump.First, make sure you jump up, do not slide up in pitch. Many, many languages and dialects use some version of sliding up or sliding up and down in pitch to make words or ideas important. To American ears, these kinds of slides almost always sound foreign, even if your pronunciation is perfect. So don‟t slide up to emphasize words, jump up to emphasize words.Second, the last word, or the last idea in the phrase usually takes an even bigger step down in pitch than the ones before it. American sentences usually sound like they‟re stepping down, and the n dropping at the end.Sentence group 101: I‟m very happy to see you today.02: Thank you very much for calling.03: I‟d like to make an appointment for next Thursday.04: I‟m going out of town at the end of next week.05: I won‟t be back in the office till the following Monday.06: There‟s too much noise on the street where we live.07: I don‟t want you to go there any more.08: My car broke down on the freeway this afternoon.09: My office is on the 3rd floor right across from the elevator.10: I‟ll never be home on time if I keep getting telephone calls.In many phrases you have a choice of more than one word where you can begin the pattern by jumping up in pitch. For example,Good morningGood mo rningIt‟s rea lly good to see you todayIt‟s really go od to see you todayThe information and the general content is the same, but there are subtle differences in meaning between the 2 versions. It is also possible for you to jump up and begin the pattern in both places.It‟s rea lly good to see you today.You can jump up and step down more than once in a sentence depending on how important you want the different ideas to be. Now, Use the pattern twice, Jump on …never‟ and on …keep‟.I‟ll never be home on time if I keep getting telephone calls.After each of the jumps, the pitch began stepping down again until the next pattern started with another jump. It is even possible to find more than 2 ideas for jumping up in pitch. Here‟s the same sentence with four jumps on the words: never, home, keep and telephone.I‟ll ne ver get ho me on time if I ke ep getting te lephone calls.Sentence group 21: I‟m very please to meet you.2: Thank you very much for calling.3: I‟d like to make an appointment for next Thursday.4: I‟m going out of town at the end of next week.5: I won‟t be back in the office till the following Monday.On which word or which words to jump up in pitch? It depends on which words or ideas you want to emphasize. In general, in a normal statement, Americans almost never jump on the word …I, or I‟m, or I‟ll‟do something. That is unless they really want to call attention to the fact that …I did it, not you or someone else, but I did it.‟ Most other times, even if the word …I‟ is pretty important, American speech does not begin pitch jumps with it. The same thing is frequently true of small words, prepositions like …till, to, for, f or, by, at.‟Key points1.Jump very noticeable2.Actually jumping pitch and not just getting loudere very noticeable downward step4.Make the last idea in the pattern end with the largest pitch dropof allSentence group 3I‟d like to welcome you all to this meeting. I‟ll begin by introducing myself to you. My name is David Allenstern, and I‟ve been president of this company for the last10 years. I‟ve seen a lot of changes in that time. Yes, we certainly made a great deal of progress, but there are still a lot more to do if we‟re going to continue to grow. Starting next week, we will begin a brand new project. Although our goals are new, we still need the same dedication and the same hard work you have already shown us. I hope that the next 10 years of progress will make the last 10 seem small in comparison.Try reading this paragraph several times, play around and experiment with it in several different versions. Each time find different ideas tostress and different places to begin the jump up and step down intonation patterns. Most importantly, don‟t be afraid to go all the way and feel it foolish or ridiculous when applying this American intonation style.Sentence group 4The Constitution Goes to the States for ApprovalMP3:/program31/p31_01/constitution.mp3Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English.01) In recent weeks, we told the story of how the United States Constitution was written. In seventeen eighty-seven, a group of delegates gathered for a convention in Philadelphia. Their plan was to rewrite the Articles of Confederation. Those articles created a weak union of the thirteen states.02) Instead of rewriting the articles, however, they spent that summer writing a completely new plan of government. On September seventeenth, after four months of often-bitter debate, the delegates finally signed the new document. Now, they had to get at least nine of the thirteen states to approve it. Today, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe tell the story of ratifying the Constitution.03) Delegates to the Philadelphia convention had met in secret. They wanted to be able to debate proposals, and change their minds, without worrying about public reaction. Now, they were free to speak openly. Each had a copy of the new Constitution.04) Newspapers also got copies. They printed every word. Public reaction was great indeed. Arguments 'for'and 'against' were the same as those voiced by delegates to the convention: The Constitution would save the United States! The Constitution would create a dictator!05) The leaders who supported the new Constitution understood quickly that to win ratification, they must speak out. So, just a few weeks after the document was signed, they began writing statements supporting the proposed Constitution.06) Their statements appeared first in news papers in New York. They were called the Federalist Papers. They were printed under the name of 'Publius'. But they were really written by three men: Alexande r Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.07) Years later, historians said the Federalist Papers were the greatest explanation of the Constitution ever written. But in seventeen eighty-seven, they had little effect on public opinion.08) The debate over the Constitution divided Americans into two groups. Those who supported it were known as Federalists. Those who opposed it were known as anti-Federalists.09) The anti-Federalists were not anti-American. They were important leaders who loved their country. They were governors, heroes of the Revolutionary War, and even a future president. Yet they distrusted the idea of a strong central government.10) Give too much power to the president, the Congress and the courts, they said, and citizens would no longer be free. They would lose the liberties gained in the war for independence from Britain.11) One anti-Federalist was Patrick Henry of Virginia. James Madison called him the most dangerous enemy of the Constitution.12) Patrick Henry and other anti-Federalists tried to create distrust and fear about the new plan of government. Farmers against city people. North against South. Small states against big states.13) An anti-Federalist newspaper in Philadelphia carried this commentary: "Citizens! You are lucky to live in Pennsylvania, where we have the best government in the world. Do not let this government be destroyed by the new Constitution. Do not let a few men -- men with great names -- seize control of your lives."14) One Federalist noted that it was easier to frighten the people than to teach them.15) There were both Federalists and anti-Federalists in the Continental Congress. The Congress had few powers. But it was the only central government the thirteen states had at that time. It met in New York City.16) The convention in Philadelphia had sent the Continental Congress a copy of the new Constitution. Within eight days, the Congress agreed that each state should organize a convention to discuss ratification. One by one, the states held their conventions.17) Delaware was the first state to ratify, early in December, seventeen eighty-seven. All the delegates voted to approve it. Pennsylvania was the next to ratify, also in December.18) New Jersey ratified the Constitution in December, followed by Georgia and Connecticut in January. That made five states. The Federalists needed just four more to win ratification.19) Massachusetts voted in early February. Delegates to the state convention wanted the Constitution amended to include guarantees to protect citizens' rights. They agreed to ratify if these guarantees were added later.20) Maryland ratified the Constitution at the end of April. There, a number of delegates included a letter of protest with their vote. They said if the proposed plan of government were not amended, the liberty and happiness of the people would be threatened.21) South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify, at the end of May. Just one more state and the new Constitution would become the law of the land. All eyes turned to Virginia.22) Virginia was the biggest of the thirteen states. At that time, its western border stretched all the way to the Mississippi River. One-fifth of all the people in America lived in Virginia. The men who attended the ratifying convention were among the most famous names in the nation: James Madison, Patrick Henry, George Mason, James Monroe, Edmund Randolph and John Marshall.23) Thomas Jefferson was still in Paris, serving as America's representative to France. But others kept him informed of everything that happened at home. Jefferson wrote back that he liked most of the Constitution. But, he said, I do not like the fact that it does not contain a declaration of the rights of citizens.24) The most famous Virginian, George Washington, stayed at his farm, Mount Vernon. All during the month of June, however, riders brought him messages from the convention and carried messages back.25) For three weeks, the Virginia delegates argued about the Constitution. By the end of June, they were ready to vote. Patrick Henry, the outspoken anti-Federalist, asked to make a last statement.26) "If this convention approves the Constitution," Henry said, "I will feel that I fought for good reasons...and lost the fight. If this happens, I will wait and hope. I will hope that the spirit of the American Revolution is not lost. I will hope that this new plan of government is changed to protect the safety, the liberty, and the happiness of the American people."27) Then the convention voted. Virginia approved the Constitution. However, like Massachusetts, it added that the document must include a declaration of rights for the nation's people.28) Federalists in Virginia were proud. They thought their state was the ninth to ratify, the one that made the Constitution the law of the land. But they soon learned that New Hampshire had ratified a few days earlier. Virginia was number ten. That left three states: North Carolina, Rhode Island, and New York.29) In a way, New York was the most important of all. If New York refused to join the union under the Constitution, it would be almost impossible for a central government to rule the nation. The twelve other states would be divided in two, geographically separated by New York state.30) The Federalists were led by Alexander Hamilton. They used their right to filibuster -- to make many long speeches -- to delay the vote. They wanted to wait to hear what Virginia would do. Early in July, they got the news. But New York's anti-Federalists kept up the fight for three more weeks.31) It was not until the end of July that New York finally ratified the Constitution. The vote was extremely close: thirty to twenty-seven. Like Massachusetts and Virginia, New York demanded a declaration of rights.32) The long struggle to give the United States a strong central government was over. It took four months to write a new Constitution. It took ten months to ratify it.33) The Continental Congress declared that the Constitution would become effective the first Wednesday in March, seventeen eighty-nine. The last two states -- North Carolina and Rhode Island -- did not ratify it until many months after that date.34) Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania, who had signed the Declaration of Independence, wrote down eight words when he heard that the Constitution had been ratified. "It is done," he said, "we have become a nation."。
英语泛读教程3---UNIT1(刘乃银)
/data/ce/er/3/KECHENX/BOOK3/UNIT1/UNIT1.HTMExercisesA. Determining the main idea. Choose the best answer. Do not refer to the text.The main idea of the text is _______ . ( D )(a) that English ancestors invented the main part of the English language in four different ways(b) that invented words are generally made up in three different ways(c) that borrowed words and other kinds of words make up about one fifth of the English language(d) how various kinds of English words are inventedB. Comprehending the text.Choose the best answer.1.English has __________ words. ( C )(a) 6 000(b) 60 000(c) 600 000(d) 6 000 0002. Ampere, volt and watt are examples of __________ . ( D )(a) invented words(b) imitative words(c) borrowed words(d) words from the names of persons3. Prefixes and suffixes are _____________. ( B )(a) whole words that don't have their own meanings(b) parts of words that have their special meanings(c) from either Greek or Latin .(d) parts of words that are meaningless4. According to the text, "graph" can be used as ___________. ( D )(a) a root word(b) a prefix(c) a suffix(d) all of the above5. Every day, ______ lead to the invention of many new words to describe them. ( A)(a) new discoveries in science and technology(b) Anglo-Saxon words(c) root words(d) nonsense words6. An invented word may become a permanent part of the English language, if ______ . ( C )(a) people know where it came from(b) it was invented by a famous writer(c) it has been used by many people over a long period of time(d) linguists are interested in it7. In the text, the author repeatedly mentions Lewis Carroll as he was________________. ( D )(a) an English actor good at making people laugh(b) a dishonest politician(c) a character in Alice in Wonderland(d) a great inventor of meaningless words8. "Gobbledygook" is an example of ________.( D )(a) imitative words that sound like the thing or action they stand for(b) words invented by combining different meanings together(c) words made up of prefixes and suffixes(d) long big words that mean nothing9. In the author's opinion, the best words are _________. ( D )(a) short ones(b) gobbledygook(c) long, fancy ones(d) short, old ones10. The author's primary purpose in writing this article is to __________. ( B )(a) please the reader with the interesting story of different kinds of words(b) give a general account of the formation of three kinds of words(c) encourage the reader to learn words according to the word formation(d) introduce the history of the English languageC. Understanding vocabulary.Choose the correct definition according to the context.1. The other one fifth is made up partly of borrowed words and partly of three other kinds of words: words from the names of peoples and places; imitative words; and invented words. ( A )(a) reproducing closely(b) similar(c) original(d) root2. Pasteurized gets its name from Louis Pasteur, a French doctor who invented the process for purifying milk. ( B )(a) Distilled(b) Purified(c) Processed(d) Invented3. Some words, like astronaut, are made up entirely of Greek or Latin prefixes and suffixes. ( C )(a) one engaged in the study of the stars(b) one engaged in the study of the universe(c) one engaged in space flight(d) a scientific observer of the celestial bodies4. If the prefix anti- means "against," what does antibiotic really mean? ( A )(a) antibacterial(b) health-protecting(c) bacteria-producing(d) non-organic5. Linguists guess that these are nonsense words because they have not been able to trace them back to any of the ancestor languages. ( A )(a) Those studying the science of language(b) Those studying the meaning of words(c) Those studying the origins of words(d) Those studying the mystery of words6. Most of Carroll's nonsense words are not used in English, except for "chortle." ( C )(a) chuckle(b) snort(c) gleeful chuckle(d) noisy snorting7. "But ‘glory' doesn't mean ‘a nice knockdown argument'," Alice objected. ( B )(a) falling(b) overwhelming(c) convincing(d) unpleasantD. Discussing the following topics.1. Why do many people use gobbledygook?答案It seems that the purpose of usinggobbledygook is to cheat people. Many people usegobbledygook because they want to appear moreimportant than they really are or because theydon't really want people to understand what theymean or what they are doing.2. Do you agree with Humpty Dumpty regarding the meaning of a word? Why or why not?答案 Well, I don't quite agree with him.This issue involves philosophical thinkingregarding the relationship between language andidea. If a word means whatever people choose itto mean, the meaning will vary from one person toanother, and people will not be able tocommunicate. On the other hand, people may use thesame word in different ways which lead todifferent meanings. No matter how different thesame word may mean, the meaning should bemeaningful so that others can understand it.3. What makes a master of language? Can you name some masters of language?答案"A master knows what words really mean, andwhere they come from; know when to use big,important ones and when to use the shorter,equally important ones". Brevity is the soul oflanguage. Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson areamong masters of language.PracticeAdd the missing words to the following headlines.1. Council leader raps school decision( The Council leader raps the school decision. )2. Bush, leaders meet in D.C.( Bush and the leaders meet in D.C. )3. Fed policy may start to focus on risk of slowing economy( The Federal policy may start to focus on the risk of the slowing economy. )4. Last call on the horizon( The last call on the horizon. )5. Regulators approve $72B drug merger( The regulators approve $72 billion drug merger. )6. Bad weather knocks retailer for loopP assage OneHave you ever heard "hit the nail on the head"? Have you ever watched a clumsy man hammering a nail into a box? He hits it first to one side, then to another, perhaps knocking it over completely, so that in the end he only gets half of it into the wood. A skillful carpenter, on the other hand, will drive home the nail with a few firm, deft blows, hitting it each time squarely on the head. So it is with language; the good craftsman will choose words that drive home his point firmly and exactly. A word that is more or less right, a loose phrase, an ambiguous expression, a vague adjective, will not satisfy a writer who aims at clean English. He will try always to get the word that is completely right for his purpose.The French have an apt phrase for this. They speak of "le mot juste", the word that is just right. Stories are told of scrupulous writers, like Flaubert, who spent days trying to get one or two sentences exactly right. Words are many and various; they are subtle and delicate in their different shades of meaning, and it is not easy to find the ones that express precisely what we want to say. It is not only a matter of having a good command of language and a fairly wide vocabulary; it is also necessary to think hard and to observe accurately. Choosing words is part of the process of realization, of defining our thoughts and feelings for ourselves, as well as for those who hear or read our words. Someone once remarked: "How can I know what I think till I see what I say?" This sounds stupid, but there is a great deal of truth in it.It is hard work choosing the right words, but we shall be rewarded by the satisfaction that finding them brings. The exact use of language gives us mastery over the material we are dealing with. Perhaps you have been asked "What sort of a man is so-and-so?" You begin: "Oh, I think he's quite a nice chap but he's rather..." and then you hesitate trying to find a word or phrase to express what it is about him that you don't like, thatconstitutes his limitation. When you find the right phrase you feel that your conception of the man is clearer and sharper.In certain primitive tribes it was thought dangerous to reveal your name to a stranger. It might give him power over you. Even in modern civilized society you find yourself at a slight social disadvantage if someone knows your name but you don't know his. Command of words is ultimately command over life and experience.(447 words)1. The author uses the idiom "hit the nail on the head" to demonstrate ______ .( D )(a) the skill of a carpenter(b) the importance of being skillful(c) how one's point can be driven home(d) the importance for a writer to choose the right word2. The word "scrupulous" in paragraph two means ________ . ( A )(a) minutely careful(b) highly skillful(c) very accomplished(d) carpenter-like3. To find an appropriate word for the specified purpose ________. ( D )(a) is a matter of command of the specific language only(b) is a matter of vocabulary(c) is to pick out a word with subtle meaning(d) involves telling people your thoughts and feelings4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? ( C )(a) Choosing a right word for the right situation is challenging and rewarding.(b) Choosing a right word means weighing among its many synonyms.(c) You need to have a clear idea of the thing you are describing to choose the right word.(d) The different shades of meaning are helpful to our expression of ideas.5. It can be inferred that the paragraph that follows the passage may possibly discuss ______ . ( B )(a) a carpenter's work(b) choice of words(c) modern civilized society(d) primitive tribes TOPP assage TwoEnglish has a wide vocabulary and it is a very flexible language. There are many different ways of making a statement. But words that are very similar in meaning have fine shades of difference and a student needs to be alive to these differences. By using his dictionary, and above all by reading, a student can increase his sensitivity to these shades of difference and improve his ability to express his own meanings exactly.Professor Raleigh once stated: "There are no synonyms, and the same statement can never be repeated in a changed form of words." This is perhaps too absolute, but it is not easy to disapprove. Even a slight alteration in the wording of a statement can subtly shift the meaning. The change in words is a change in style, and the effect on the reader is quite different. It is perhaps easier to be a good craftsman with wood and nails than a good craftsman with words, but all of us can increase our skill and sensitivity with a little effort and patience. In this way we shall not only improve our writing, but also our reading.Above all we should try to cultivate an interest in words. The study of words, of their origins and shifting meanings, can tell us a great deal about human life and thought. English offers a fascinating variety of words for many activities and interests.The foreign student of English may be discouraged and dismayed when he learns that there are over 400 000 words in the English language, without counting slang. But let him take courage. More than half of these words are dead. Even Shakespeare used a vocabulary of only some 20 000 words. The average Englishman today probably has a vocabulary range of from 12 000 to 13 000 words. It is good to make your vocabulary as complete as you can, but a great deal can be said and written with a vocabulary of no more than 10 000 words. The important thing is to have a good control and command over the words you do know. Better know two words exactly than three vaguely. A good carpenter is not distinguished by the number of his tools, but by the craftsmanship with which he uses them. So a good writer is not measured by the extent of his vocabulary, but by his skill in finding the word that will hit the nail cleanly on the head.(405 words)6. In this passage, the author tells us that reading can ______ . ( B )(a) increase the vocabulary enormously(b) make one become more aware of the subtle differences of synonyms(c) enable one to learn as many synonyms as possible(d) enable one to be flexible in expressions7. Professor Raleigh's statement "There are no synonyms..." ______ . ( A )(a) stresses the different shades of meanings(b) is too absolute and easy to disapprove(c) is what the author tries to disapprove(d) means that there is no such word "synonym"8. According to the author, an interest in words should be cultivated because _____. ( C )(a) it is more difficult to be expert at words than at nails(b) words are the most fascinating things to observe(c) words offer us a lot of information about human activities(d) words are the most important part of a language9. The author thinks that ______ . ( B )(a) Shakespeare had a very small vocabulary(b) Shakespeare used only a small portion of the English vocabulary(c) it's not necessary to enlarge your vocabulary(d) it's reasonable to feel discouraged at the large amount of vocabulary in English10. In the author's opinion, the most important thing is to ______ . ( D )(a) have a large vocabulary to write and speak with(b) have at least a vocabulary of 10 000(c) use the words you already know(d) know how to find the right word TOPP assage ThreeLanguage is often irrational even in the way it combines words into sentences － in its synthesis. If language were perfectly rational in this respect, we should be able to handle words like the nine digits in arithmetic, and combine them into sentences at pleasure by applying a few simple grammatical rules. In practice, however, we find that a great part of all languages consists of a limited number of natural sentences, only some of which admit of being formed a priori and freely modified by the substitution of the other words, as when from "have", "ink", "pen", we make up such sentences as "I have the ink"; "Who has the pen?" "Who has the ink?" "He has the ink," and so on.But just as we cannot go on speaking long without using irregular inflections, so also we cannot go on speaking naturally for any length of time without using irregular combinations of words － combinationswhich cannot be constructed a priori. The sentences which make up natural speech are of two kinds － general sentences, such as those which have just been given, and special sentences or idioms, such as "how do you do?" "never mind", which are really on a level with simple words, such as salutation, indifference, and like them, have to be learnt one by one, in the same way as the irregularities of the grammar. Many of them, indeed, have meanings inconsistent with those of the words of which they are made up. Thus "do by itself" never has the meaning it has in "how do you do?" and "help" in the idiomatic expression "I could not help being late" has the meaning "prevent" "avoid", which is the exact contrary of its ordinary meaning.Again, even in those cases in which the grammar and dictionary allow us to express an idea by various combinations of words, there is often only one of these combinations in actual use. Those who have had to do Latin prose composition know that the main difficulty of the art consists in having an instinctive knowledge of what combinations to avoid. French has a similar character. English and Greek are much freer in this respect, a fact which many foreigners find it difficult to realize. When they ask me such questions as "Can one speak of an 'elegant supper'?" "Can you say, 'He was bad last night'?" I always answer that English is a free language, and that there is nothing to prevent any one calling a supper "elegant" although I do not remember ever doing so myself. Nevertheless, English has its limitations as well as other languages. Foreigners' English often presents the curious spectacle of a language constructed on strict grammatical principles, but with hardly a single genuinely English sentence in it.(464 words)11. Language is irrational in that _______________ .( D )(a) we can combine words by using simple grammatical rules(b) words in a language are like the nine digits in arithmetic(c) the meaning of a sentence can be inferred from the meanings of the words in it(d) the meaning of a sentence does not always conform to the meaning of the words in it12. According to the author, ________. ( B )(a) all languages have a limited number of natural sentences(b) not all the sentences in a language can be modified by substituting different words(c) regular combinations of words should be avoided in our speech(d) we should construct a priori before we combine words into sentences13. Which of the following is true? ( B )(a) Grammatically correct sentences are definitely correct.(b) Grammatically correct sentences are not necessarily used in practice.(c) A sentence based on grammar should be idiomatic.(d) A sentence in practical use must be rational.14. The author thinks it ______ to call a supper "elegant". ( A )(a) not idiomatic(b) impossible(c) wise(d) good English15. The main idea of the passage is that ____________. ( A )(a) we cannot speak by strict grammatical rules(b) no rule but has exceptions(c) there are two kinds of sentences in a language(d) language has strict grammatical rules to follow TOPText2ExercisesA History of EnglishThe English language we speak today went through three stages called Old English, Middle English and Modern English. But ages before even Old English came into being, many other languages had to arise and develop. The oldest of these, as far as we know, was the Indo-European family of languages, which were beginning to be spoken clear back during the Stone Age. During the Stone Age, some Indo-European people lived on the islands of Britain.The earliest known of these British Indo-Europeans split into two groups called the Scots and the Celts. There was another group, who were not Indo-European, called Picts. Together these three peoples are known as Britons. The Britons were a fierce, Stone Age people constantly making war on each other. They dressed in animal skins, lived in caves or rude wooden huts. These people had their own languages.At the same time that the Stone Age Britons were living their warlike life, the Greeks, far to the east of them, were building a great civilization in Europe. Many of our ideas of art, literature, science, philosophy and government today come from the genius of these ancient people. As the Greek civilization reached a high point, another great civilization was being built in Italy by the Romans, whose language was Latin. When the Romans conquered Greece and made it part of their empire, they found a culture much older and far superior to their own. So they borrowed it.After conquering all of Europe, Rome invaded Britain and made it part of the empire, in AD 43. Romans brought their advanced culture to the Britons. Not only did they bring their art, literature, law and the Latin language, they established schools, built buildings and roads and provided an army to protect themselves against invaders.Meanwhile, the Germanic peoples of northern Europe, known as "Norsemen" or "Northmen," were developing another, separate European culture. Some groups of Norsemen came to be known as Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Goths. They were warriors, but also sailors and traders. In very early times the Angles and Saxons began to trade with the Celts in England. This was probably the first time the Britons came into contact with other peoples.During the four hundred years Britain was part of the Roman Empire, Rome was getting weaker and weaker, and the Norsemen were getting stronger and stronger. Finally they thundered through the Roman defenses along the northern boundaries of the empire. In addition to the attack from the north, Rome was invaded from the east by Mongols, from the south by the Moslems.Being attacked on all sides, Rome had to call back her armies to protect what was left of the empire. By AD 409, Rome had lost all control of Britain.As soon as the Roman armies pulled out of Britain, the Picts and Scots began to destroy the Celts. The Celts turned for help to the Angles and Saxons across the sea in Sweden and Denmark. The latter were quick to respond, because they loved war. They saved the Celts; they also destroyed practically all the culture which had been brought by the Romans: literature, sculpture, schools and roads. The Germanic languages of the Angles and Saxons combined to become Anglo-Saxon. Since the Angles and Saxons had become the power in England, the Anglo-Saxon language became the very early beginning of English.While the Anglo-Saxons were establishing their power in England and making their language the main language of that country, the Roman Empire was sinking deeper and deeper into trouble. By AD 476 the western empire had ceased to exist. And since the Germanic peoples had no interest in preserving Roman culture, it just died. The Church was all that was left of Roman civilization. But Latin survived as the language of churchmen and the wealthy, educated classes, and was to have a profound effect on the development of the languages of southern Europe and England.Gradually, between the sixth and eleventh centuries, the feudal estates of Europe grew into powerful kingdoms. Of these, the French kingdom of Normandy became very important to the development of English.The various peoples in England were coming together as a nation also, under the rule of more powerful kings such as Alfred the Great, who ruled between 871 and 899. Alfred was not only an efficient ruler and a great defender of his people, he was also an eager scholar. He was able to preserve some of the learning which had been left behind when the Romans left England. In Anglo-Saxon he began a detailed diary of events in his own time known as The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Although Alfred encouraged reading and writing in Anglo-Saxon as well as in Latin, most works continued to be written in Latin.Alfred's efforts to unify England and establish a national language apart from Latin were interrupted by an invasion of yet another group of Norsemen, the Vikings. The Vikings who invaded England were called Danes, and those who invaded France were known as the Normans.Gradually, as all invaders do eventually, the Danes settled down and became peaceful farmers. Their language mixed with Anglo-Saxon and became what we know as Old English. Old English was established as the language of the land by the tenth century. For the next hundred years or so after the Danish invasions, the English people lived in peace. If they had continued that way the English language today might be quite different from what it is; it would be something similar to Dutch, Danish and German. But about nine hundred years ago, England was invaded again, and another,very different language was brought to the country. When this language arrived, English moved away from Danish and Anglo-Saxon and passed from Old English into Middle English.The new foreign language which was to have such an important influence on the development of Middle English was French. In 1066, the Norman French people invaded England. The invasion is known as the Norman Conquest, and it is very important for two reasons. First, it was the last time England was ever to be invaded. Second, Old French became as important an influence as Danish and Anglo-Saxon to the development of English as it is today.The Normans brought their law, customs and literature to England. Since there was still so much Latin in their own language, Latin again began to have an influence on English. But this time, the English people did not allow their language to be swallowed up by a foreign language in the way their Celtic and early Anglo-Saxon ancestors had. Although the invading Norman French became the rulers of the land, and French became the language of government and law in England, the English people stubbornly refused to give up their own language. English remained the spoken language of the people. And when they did accept French words, they mispronounced them so badly that no one could recognize them as French.So, for a time, England was a land where there were two languages － the French of the ruling class, and the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, of the servant class, the English people. Smart people of both classes learned both languages, and eventually the two languages came together to form what we know today as Middle English. Middle English was neither French nor Anglo-Saxon; it was a completely different language combined of both. The change from Old English to Middle English took place gradually over a period of about three hundred years.Middle English was a very disorganized language. But in Europe and in the Middle East, many changes were taking place which would have an important effect on the future of the English language. Let's look back for a moment to see what these changes were.As western Europe split into feudal estates the Moslems of the Middle East were pushing farther west and threatening the Christian rulers of the eastern empire. In 638 the Moslems had captured Jerusalem. European kings wanted it back, because they felt it belonged to Christians. They broke through the Moslem defenses and began a long series of wars called the Crusades.For two hundred years, from 1095 to 1291, European Christians joined forces with Middle Eastern Christians against the Moslems.Europe lost the wars of the Crusades. But the Crusades had brought the Europeans back into contact with the superior ancient Greek and Roman cultures, and those cultures had been enriched by the Moslem's advance knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, geography and medicine.This renewed contact with all the knowledge marks the beginning of a period in Europe known as the Renaissance, which means "re-birth of learning." The lost works of ancient Greek and Roman writers were rediscovered in Europe, inspiring countless new works of literature, art and science. The Renaissance began in Italy, but eventually the new learning spread north, to France, Germany and England.Geoffrey Chaucer was born some hundred years after the last war of the Crusades, in the early part of the Renaissance. About one hundred fifty years after Chaucer's death William Shakespeare was born in the last part of the Renaissance. During the lifetimes of these two great writers and over all the years between, the English language was sorting itself out from the chaos of Middle English.By the time of Shakespeare's death in 1616, the English history and language had entered the modern period.The English of Shakespeare's time is considered modern English because, except for some different spellings and a few words we no longer use, the language is quite similar to the English we speak today. Many of the old sayings we use every day come right out of Shakespeare's writings. When we think something is unimportant we "laugh it off." Describing something which is strong and in good condition, we say it is "sound as a bell." When we are disgusted with something, we say it is "lousy." If you know or use these expressions you are quoting Shakespeare.After Shakespeare's time English was to change a great deal more, but the changes were gradual. The changes came as a result of the growth of the English Empire, advancements intransportation and communication and a continuing contact betweenEnglish-speaking peoplesand peoples from all parts of the world.Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries England built an empire which included north America, some Caribbean islands, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Asia and parts of Africa. About nine or ten years before Shakespeare's death, England had established her first American colony, Virginia. Three hundred years later, England no longer had an empire, but the lands which she had conquered still spoke the English language. Today, English is the native or official language of not only the United States but also Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Kenya, South Africa, Trinidad, Jamaica and more － lands on every continent of this planet.(1 816 words)。
The Differences between American English and British English
The Differences between American Englishand British EnglishNameNumberClassAbstractThrough the writing of this paper, we can know that there are some differences between British English and American English in political and economic duration, social life, national history, regional cultures and their respective specific cultural phenomena. And with the development of economy, differences between American English and British English will gradually reduce; the international Standard English will appear. And all of these can give us the enlightenment. Firstly, through the analysis of the two variants of English, we can realize some British and American culture characteristics, and know these features can help us better understand Britain and the United States; it is also very helpful for us to be more aware of the development of English. Secondly, through the analysis of the two variants of English, we can express English accurately, enrich English knowledge and improve the use of English. Finally, through the analysis of the two variants of English, it helps us to stimulate curiosity and creativity, cultivate the spirit of exploration and innovation. And the most important thing is that it is also beneficial for a second English learner to understand when there is British English there should not allowed to use American English. It is good for English learners to study English efficiently and communicate well. English as a major world-wide used language will constantly keep its position in the future international communication.Key words: American English British English Differences PronunciationV ocabulary中文摘要通过本文的写作，我们可以知道，英式英语和美式英语之间的分歧有一些存在在政治，经济，社会生活中，民族历史，地域文化和他们各自特有的文化现象里。
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绪论单元测试1.How many periods can be divided in American literary history?A:6B:1C:2D:3答案:A2.Who is a writer in the American colonial period?A:EdwardsB:PoundC:MelvilleD:Hawthorne答案:A3.The representative of American local colorism isA:WilliamsB:CooperC:Mark TwainD:Eliot答案:C4.T.S.Eliot is an American author.A:对B:错答案:A5.American Romanticism stretches from 1800 to 1865.A:对B:错答案:A第一章测试1.The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nationwere quite a few of them_____.A:QuakersB:AnglicansC:CatholicsD:Puritans答案:D2.It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth,that is, ________.A: The ancient Greek myth of ZeusB:The British myth of the Saint GrailC:The Biblical myth of the Garden of EdenD:The legend of the sleepy Hollow答案:C3.Puritans were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete“purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden onearth.A:对B:错答案:A4.American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences inAmerican thought and American literature.A:错B:对答案:B5.The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in theearly part of 18 century.A:错B:对答案:A第二章测试1.The first symbol of self-made American man is___A:JeffersonB:WashingtonC:FranklinD:Irving答案:C2.In 18th century, ____was the last great voice of theCalvinist stance.A:BradstreetB:EdwardC:CooperD:Benjamin Franklin答案:D3.In“the Great Awakening”, ____was the last great voice toreannounce theCalvinist stanceA: EdwardB:CooperC:BradstreetD:BenjaminFranklin答案:D4.Eighteenth-century American thinking was dominated, by and large, by 2patterns of thought.A:对B:错答案:A第三章测试1.The Romantic Period in the history of American literature started with thep ublication of Washington Irving’s _________ and ended with Whitman’sLeaves of Grass.A:The Sketch BookB:Drum TapsC:WaldenD:Song of Myself答案:A2.Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the historyof American literature is NOT true?A:In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature.B:Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and nationality.C:The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the freeexpression of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.D:There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man.答案:B3.The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a localphenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England, whocarried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _________ in Boston. （）A:UnitarianismB:ClassicismC:PuritanismD:Calvinism答案:C4.As one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown iswritten in the manner of its concern with_________. （）A:guilt and evilB: moral and corruptionC:destruction and hopeD:good and bad答案:A5.Which of the following is NOT among the artistic features of Whitman’swriting?（）A:The use of the poetic “I”B:Free verseC:AllegoryD:Musicality and rhythm答案:C第四章测试1.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________.A:short, clear sentencesB:highly refined languageC:abundance of local imagesD:ordinary American speech答案:B2.One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figurein the 19th century America is his use of____________ .A: point of viewB:vernacularC:photographic descriptionD:interior monologue答案:B3.Which of the following is right about Mark Twain’s language?A:His sentence structures are short, ungrammatical and difficult to read.B:His words are fomal.C:His style of language hadn’t exerted rather deep influence on thecontemporary writers.D:His seldom use humor.答案:A4.Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?A:His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-facedexaggeration， repetition and anti-climax.B:His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on thecontemporary writers.C:His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.D:His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.答案:D5.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies andeighties of the 19th century．A: SentimentalismB:NaturalismC:RomanticismD:Realism答案:D第五章测试1. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct hisstories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.A:mutiple points of viewB:expressionismC: impressionismD: first person point of view答案:A2. In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were twothinkers -______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.A: the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund FreudB:the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund FreudC:the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund FreudD:the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James答案:C3.Which of the following statements can be said about the works of ScottFitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?A:They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context ofirresistible natural forces.B:They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.C:Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment.D:They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world.答案:D4.Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell toArms?A:The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.B: It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian nurse.C:The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s.D:The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’sdesign or his beneficence.答案:A5.To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent theinfinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.A: both A and B.B: observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the events.C:observe with no judgment whatsoever.D: reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.答案:A第六章测试1.The Cold War happened in 1950s.A:错B:对答案:B2.One of the most ambitious writers of this period is J.D.Salinger.A:对B:错答案:A3.J.D.Salinger only wrote one novel and became famous for it.A:对B:错答案:A4.Salinger was born into a Jewish middle class family.A:错B:对答案:B5.The Catcher in the Rye ralates the painful story of a high-school boy growingup in the world of decadent New York.A:对B:错答案:A。
大学mooc英美音乐与文化(华南理工大学)期末考试答案
英美音乐与文化（华南理工大学）解忧书店JieYouBookshop期末考试1单选(2分)Which of the following about culture and music is false?A.Culture includes a lot of things.B.Culture shapes music.C.The way of communication is part of culture.D.Music defines culture.正确答案：D你选对了2单选(2分)What can you learn from the song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head"?A.Music relates to life reality.B.Music is the result of culture.C.Music helps understand culture.D.Music gives inspiration.正确答案：D你选对了3单选(2分)Which of the following is not the right way to learn English through music?A.Relate English songs to their cultural background.B.Accept your understanding of the songs as final.C.Make sure you know the lyrics.D.Think about the genres and themes of English songs.正确答案：B你选对了4单选(2分)Regarding cultural influence, which of the following is true?A.Well-educated people are less influenced by culture.B.No one can escape the influence of culture.C.People witho ut being educated won’t be influenced by culture.D.People can only be influenced by their own culture.正确答案：B你选对了5单选(2分)Regarding the evolution of music genres, which of the following is false?A.Music genres may grow rise and fall over time.B.Rock music is the one that has been popular through the decades since its birth.C.Music genres of each decade are almost the same.D.Every decade has its unique music styles.正确答案：C你选对了6单选(2分)Which of the following is false about “Chorus”?A.Chorus usually appears in a song more than once.B.Chorus includes the most catchy melody in songs.C.Either melody or lyrics in chorus may changeD.Chorus is the focus of the song.正确答案：C你选对了7单选(2分)The most important element of a song is __________.A.IntroB.VerseC.ChorusD.Bridge正确答案：C你选对了8单选(2分)Which one of the following is false about music genres?A.Most popular music genres include jazz, blues, rock, country, among others.B.Music genre refers to the similarities in form, style, or subject matter.C.Music genres may overlap.D.There is a clear line between each music genres.正确答案：D你选对了9单选(2分)The legendary blues musician B.B. King’s master piece is _________.A.“Cry Your Blues Away”B.“Stop Breakin’ Down”C."Killing Floor"D.“The Thrill Is Gone”正确答案：D你选对了10单选(2分)Regarding the history of the blues, which of the following is false?A.The blues helped to unify Africa Americans from different origins, creating a new cultural identity.B.The history of blues goes along with the history of country music.C.The history of the blues goes along with the history of jazz.D.The history of the blues also has to do with the history of the recording industry.正确答案：B你选对了11单选(2分)The blues has its influence on a lot of music styles, like _________.A.jazz and reggae.B.rock and roll, jazz and reggae.C.rock and roll, and country.D.rock and roll, and contemporary R and B and soul.正确答案：D你选对了12单选(2分)The blues had a huge impact on society, especially on ____________.A.women rights and civil rights.B.human rights and women rights.C.race relations and women rights.D.race relations and civil rights.正确答案：D你选对了13单选(2分)From its birth to today, the blues has been played by ___________.A.only white musiciansB.only Latino musiciansC.only black musiciansD.both black and white musicians正确答案：D你选对了14单选(2分)Country music has its roots specifically in __________ ?A. England downtownB.Australian farmlandC.Scotland HighlandsD. American west正确答案：D你选对了15单选(2分)The country and western music merged in 1920s to 1950s because of ____________.A. all of the other choicesB.the availability of recorded music in rural areasC.the U.S people, such as the soldiers, working togetherD.the historical event such as World War II正确答案：A你选对了16单选(2分)The country music began to gain popularity in _____________.A.1980sB. 1970sC. 1920sD.1960s正确答案：C你选对了17单选(2分)The lyrics of the country music is usually about the life of _____________.A.the Black peopleB.the middle-class peopleC.the people in rural areasD.the US pilgrims正确答案：C你选对了18单选(2分)The lyrics of R&B are usually about _________.A.the ambition of the younger generationB.the daily house chordsC.the western cowboysD.the struggle and triumph in life正确答案：D你选对了19单选(2分)Which of the following is not the sub-genre of R&B?A.Hip-hop Soul.B.Quiet Storm.C.Urban Pop.D. Gospel.正确答案：D你选对了20单选(2分)R&B has influenced many other music genres especially _________.A. electricB.heavy metalC.gospelD.pop正确答案：D你选对了21单选(2分)What is the implying meaning of "Alternative Rock"?A.It indicates its difference from the mainstream rock music.B.It refers to its mainstream status in music.C.It covers the major musical features of this sub-genre.D.It demonstrates its wide popularity.正确答案：A你选对了22单选(2分)The most obvious difference between R&B and rock is __________.A.content of lyricsB.musical instrumentC.song structureD.tempo正确答案：D你选对了23单选(2分)Which of the following fashions is the result of rock music?A.Diamond necklace.B.All of the other choices.C.High heels.D.Black leather jackets.正确答案：D你选对了24单选(2分)“You rock!” or “That rocks!” means that person or that thing is ___________.A.coolB.hardC.solidD.abundant正确答案：A你选对了25单选(2分)The longest running Beatles song on the charts is ___________.A.“Imagine”B.“Hey Jude”C.“Love Me Do”D.“the Fab Four”正确答案：B你选对了26单选(2分)The most significant musical element in Rock and Roll is __________ .A.lyrics rhymesB.song structureC.vocal harmonyD.distortion of electric guitars正确答案：D你选对了27单选(2分)1 “Imagine” is a song co-written and performed by English musician John Lennon. The best-selling single of his solo career, its lyrics encourage the listener to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality and to consider the possibility that the whole of humanity would live unattached to material possessions. Lennon hoped that the softer and beautiful melody would bring the song to a wider audience, who hopefully would listen to his message.2 Lennon later felt that this song should have been a Lennon/Ono (Lennon’s wife, a Japanese) collaboration. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song’s “lyric and content” came from his wife Yoko Ono, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit. He got the initial idea from Yoko’s book Grapefruit, which is a book of instructions, with things like “Imagine the sky crying...” or “Imagine you're a cloud.”3 Some people have wondered if Lennon included a message in the video for this song as well. In the video, Lennon is dressed as a cowboy and Yoko Ono is dressed as an Indian squaw.4 Lennon wrote this on a brown Steinway upright piano. In 2000, George Michael paid over $2 million for the piano that Lennon wrote this on, and then returned it to the Beatles museum in Liverpool. John’s piano has since been “on tour” to various world locations promoting peace.5 This was not released as a single in the UK until 1975, when it hit #6. Shortly after Lennon’s death in 1980, it was re-release d in the UK and hit #1. It was replaced at #1 by Lennon’s “Woman,” marking the first time an artist replaced himself on top of the UK charts since The Beatles followed “She Loves You” with “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”In 2002, “Imagine” was ranked the second best single of all time in a UK survey and used almost equally with national anthems performed at some of the biggest events across the globe. Whatis/are the reasons?A.Because it is simple and easy to sing.B.Because it is a song of peace.C.All of the other choices.D.Because it is a song of positivity and hope.正确答案：C你选对了28单选(2分)1 “Imagine” is a song co-written and performed by English musician John Lennon. The best-selling single of his solo career, its lyrics encourage the listener to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality and to consider the possibility that thewhole of humanity would live unattached to material possessions. Lennon hoped that the softer and beautiful melody would bring the song to a wider audience, who hopefully would listen to his message.2 Lennon later felt that this song should have been a Lennon/Ono (Lennon’s wife, a Japanese) collaboration. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song’s “lyric and content” came from his wife Yoko Ono, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit. He got the initial idea from Yoko’s book Grapefruit, which is a book of instructions, with things like “Imagine the sky crying...” or “Imagine you're a cloud.”3 Some people have wondered if Lennon included a message in the video for this song as well. In the video, Lennon is dressed as a cowboy and Yoko Ono is dressed as an Indian squaw.4 Lennon wrote this on a brown Steinway upright piano. In 2000, George Michael paid over $2 million for the piano that Lennon wrote this on, and then returned it to the Beatles museum in Liverpool. John’s piano has since been “on tour” to various world locations promoting peace.5 This was not released as a single in the UK u ntil 1975, when it hit #6. Shortly after Lennon’s death in 1980, it was re-released in the UK and hit #1. It was replaced at #1 by Lennon’s “Woman,” marking the first time an artist replaced himself on top of the UK charts since The Beatles followed “SheL oves You” with “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A.Beatles’ She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand all hit #1 in UK too.B.Imagine hit #1 at its first release.C.John Lennon’s Imagine, Woman hit #1 in UK.D.In 1980, Imagine hit #1 in UK.正确答案：B你选对了29单选(2分)1 “Vincent” is a folk song by American singer-songwriter Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh. It is also known by its opening line, “Starry Starry Night”, a reference to V an Gogh's painting The Starry Night. The song also describes different paintings done by the artist. It was created on the 100th anniversary of the midpoint of Van Gogh’s life.2 Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” after committing himself to an asylum in 1889. He wrote that night was "more richly colored than the day," but he couldn't go outside to see the stars when he was committed, so he painted the night sky from memory.3 The lyrics, "Paint your palette blue and gray" reflect the prominent colors of the painting, and areprobably a reference to Vincent's habit of sucking on or biting his paintbrushes while he worked. The "ragged men in ragged clothes" and "how you tried to set them free" refer to Van Gogh's humanitarian activities and love of the socially outcast as also reflected in his paintings and drawings. "They would not listen/They did not know how" refers to Van Gogh's family and some associates who were critical of his kindness to "the wretched." "How you suffered for your sanity" refers to the schizophrenic disorder from which Van Gogh suffered.4 McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading a book about the life of the artist. McLean told The Daily Telegraph February 24, 2010 the story of this song: "In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn't crazy. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of 'crazy' – because he was rejected by a woman [as was commonly thought]. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag."5 McLean was going through a dark period when he wrote this song. He explained to The Daily Telegraph: "I was in a bad marriage that was torturing me. I was tortured. I wasn't as badly off as Vincent was, but I wasn't thrilled, let's put it that way."6 The following year, the song became the number one hit in the UK Singles Chart and No. 12 in the US. Coincidentally, it spent 12 weeks on the HOT 100. In the US, "Vincent" also peaked at number two on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 94 song for 1972.7 Talking about the song on the UK show Songbook, McLean said: "It was inspired by a book. And it said that it was written by Vincent's brother, Theo. So what caused the idea to percolate in my head was, first of all, what a beautiful idea for a piece of music. Secondly, I could set the record straight, basically, he wasn't crazy.According to the passage, what inspired Don McLean to write "Vincent"?A.A painting by Vincent van Gogh.B.A book written by Vincent van Gogh.C.His bad marriage.D.A book written by Theo.正确答案：D你选对了30单选(2分)1 “Vincent” is a folk song by American singer-songwriter Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh. It is also known by its opening line, “Starry Starry Night”, a reference to Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night. The song also describes different paintings done by the artist. It was created on the 100th anniversary of the midpoint of Van Gogh’s life.2 Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” after committing himself to an asylum in 1889. He wrote that night was "more richly colored than the day," but he couldn't go outside to see the stars when he was committed, so he painted the night sky from memory.3 The lyrics, "Paint your palette blue and gray" reflect the prominent colors of the painting, and are probably a reference to Vincent's habit of sucking on or biting his paintbrushes while he worked. The "ragged men in ragged clothes" and "how you tried to set them free" refer to Van Gogh's humanitarian activities and love of the socially outcast as also reflected in his paintings and drawings. "They would not listen/They did not know how" refers to Van Gogh's family and some associates who were critical of his kindness to "the wretched." "How you suffered for your sanity" refers to the schizophrenic disorder from which Van Gogh suffered.4 McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading a book about the life of the artist. McLean told The Daily Telegraph February 24, 2010 the story of this song: "In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn't crazy. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of 'crazy' – because he was rejected by a woman [as was commonly thought]. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag."5 McLean was going through a dark period when he wrote this song. He explained to The Daily Telegraph: "I was in a bad marriage that was torturing me. I was tortured. I wasn't as badly off as Vincent was, but I wasn't thrilled, let's put it that way."6 The following year, the song became the number one hit in the UK Singles Chart and No. 12 in the US. Coincidentally, it spent 12 weeks on the HOT 100. In the US, "Vincent" also peaked at number two on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 94 song for 1972.7 Talking about the song on the UK show Songbook, McLean said: "It was inspired by a book. And it said that it was written by Vincent's brother, Theo. So what caused the idea to percolate in my head was, first of all, what a beautiful idea for a piece of music. Secondly, I could set the record straight, basically, he wasn't crazy.Regarding the writing of (Starry, Starry Night) , according to this passage, which of the following is NOT right?A.The song Vincent was completed within a very short time and was written on a paper bag.B.In the following year of this song being released, it was more popular in US than it was in UK.C.This song, and Van Gogh's painting, reflect what it's like to be misunderstood.D.Van Gogh was not appreciated until after his death, and his struggles to be understood were something many musicians also felt, including a young Don McLean.正确答案：B你选对了31单选(2分)1 “Vincent” is a folk song by American singer-songwriter Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh. It is also known by its opening line, “Starry Starry Night”, a reference to Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night. The song also describes different paintings done by the artist. It was created on the 100th anniversary of the midpoint of Van Gogh’s life.2 Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” after committing himself to an asylum in 1889. He wrote that night was "more richly colored than the day," but he couldn't go outside to see the stars when he was committed, so he painted the night sky from memory.3 The lyrics, "Paint your palette blue and gray" reflect the prominent colors of the painting, and are probably a reference to Vincent's habit of sucking on or biting his paintbrushes while he worked. The "ragged men in ragged clothes" and "how you tried to set them free" refer to Van Gogh's humanitarian activities and love of the socially outcast as also reflected in his paintings and drawings. "They would not listen/They did not know how" refers to Van Gogh's family and some associates who were critical of his kindness to "the wretched." "How you suffered for your sanity" refers to the schizophrenic disorder from which Van Gogh suffered.4 McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading a book about the life of the artist. McLean told The Daily Telegraph February 24, 2010 the story of this song: "In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn't crazy. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of 'crazy' – because he was rejected by a woman [as was commonly thought]. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag."5 McLean was going through a dark period when he wrote this song. He explained to The Daily Telegraph: "I was in a bad marriage that was torturing me. I was tortured. I wasn't as badly off as Vincent was, but I wasn't thrilled, let's put it that way."6 The following year, the song became the number one hit in the UK Singles Chart and No. 12 in the US. Coincidentally, it spent 12 weeks on the HOT 100. In the US, "Vincent" also peaked at number two on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 94 song for 1972.7 Talking about the song on the UK show Songbook, McLean said: "It was inspired by a book. And it said that it was written by Vincent's brother, Theo. So what caused the idea to percolate in my head was, first of all, what a beautiful idea for a piece of music. Secondly, I could set the record straight, basically, he wasn't crazy.In paragraph 7, what did Don McLean mean by saying “set the record straight”?A.He wanted to keep his hits on the top of the chart in UK.B.He wanted to keep his hits on the top of the chart in US.C.He wanted to correct a misapprehension by people to Van Gogh.D.He wanted to correct a misapprehension by his wife.正确答案：C你选对了32单选(2分)1 Watching movies or television shows as a way to “passively” learn a language sounds like a language learner’s dream. That is.2 Passive la nguage acquisition is one of those myths that preys on the lazy “couch beast” inside eachof us that tries to get something without putting forth any effort. Learning a language takes work. You just can’t become fluent by passively listening to a language.3 Movies and TV shows can help, but not if you plant yourself in front of a screen for eight hours a day. You’re no more likely to learn a language doing this than you are to become a pilot by watching aeroplanes. You just need the right approach and mindset. Here are some suggestions.Don’t just watch the movie. Study it. Viewing a movie for entertainment means you aren’t focused on learning the language. Treat the movie like you would a textbook, and study the material. Break things up into consumable, repeatable segments. A two hour movie is too much language to absorb at once. Break it up into segments of 10 minutes or less, and review them multiple times until you have really learned something of substance.4 Engage with the material. A movie is an open book on body language, accents, inflection, pronunciation and many other areas of language learning. Don’t just sit on your hands! Get involved in the story, act out parts, repeat lines and body movements and make the language come alive!5 As with movies and television shows, listening to music is often seen as a magic path to learning a language. The problem is that songs are written poetically so they aren't usually a good source for everyday grammar and vocabulary.6 Listening to songs does have its place in a language learning mission — as long as you have the right approach. Instead of repeating myself, I’ll just recommend that you do the same as you would for movies or television shows: study the music (don’t listen passively), repeat segments (to r eally understand the material) and engage with the song (don’t just listen — sing!).7 One additional fix is to recognise that song lyrics often take creative license with a language, so while they are helpful to your studies, keep in mind that it is the equivalent to studying poetry. According to this passage, why does the writer of this passage suggest that watching movies or television may be like a language learner’s dream?A.Because watching movies or television may not involve any effort.B.Because watching movies or television may take too much time.C.Because watching movies or television may have too much to enjoy.D.Because watching movies or television may not contribute to language learning.正确答案：D你选对了33单选(2分)1 Watching movies or television shows as a way to “passively” learn a language sounds like a language learner’s dream.2 Passive language acquisition is one of those myths that preys on the lazy “couch beast” inside each of us that tries to get something without putting forth any effort. Learning a language takes work. You just can’t become fluent by passively listening to a language.3 Movies and TV shows can help, but not if you plant yourself in front of a screen for eight hours a day. You’re no more likely to learn a language doing this than you are to become a pilot by watchingaeroplanes. You just need the right approach and mindset. Here are some suggestions.Don’t just watch the movie. Study it. Viewing a movie for entertainment means you aren’t focused on learning the language. Treat the movie like you would a textbook, and study the material. Break things up into consumable, repeatable segments. A two hour movie is too much language to absorb at once. Break it up into segments of 10 minutes or less, and review them multiple times until you have really learned something of substance.4 Engage with the material. A movie is an open book on body language, accents, inflection, pronunciation and many other areas of language learning. Don’t just sit on your hands! Get involved in the story, act out parts, repeat lines and body movements and make the language come alive!5 As with movies and television shows, listening to music is often seen as a magic path to learning a language. The problem is that songs are written poetically so they aren't usually a good source for everyday grammar and vocabulary.6 Listening to songs does have its place in a language learning mission — as long as you have the right approach. Instead of repeating myself, I’ll just recommend that you do the same as yo u would for movies or television shows: study the music (don’t listen passively), repeat segments (to really understand the material) and engage with the song (don’t just listen — sing!).7 One additional fix is to recognise that song lyrics often take creative license with a language, so while they are helpful to your studies, keep in mind that it is the equivalent to studying poetry.According to this passage, to maximize language learning potential, how to use a movie to learn language?A.Study the movie, break it into pieces, and review several times.B.Watch the movie and study it.C.Focus on the language, break it into segments, and review multiple times.D.Study the movie, break it into pieces, review and engage.正确答案：D你选对了34单选(2分)1 Watching mo vies or television shows as a way to “passively” learn a language sounds like a language learner’s dream. That is.2 Passive language acquisition is one of those myths that preys on the lazy “couch beast” inside each of us that tries to get something without putting forth any effort. Learning a language takes work. You just can’t become fluent by passively listening to a language.3 Movies and TV shows can help, but not if you plant yourself in front of a screen for eight hours a day. You’re no more likely to learn a language doing this than you are to become a pilot by watching aeroplanes. You just need the right approach and mindset. Here are some suggestions.Don’t just watch the movie. Study it. Viewing a movie for entertainment means you aren’t focused on learning the language. Treat the movie like you would a textbook, and study the material. Break things up into consumable, repeatable segments. A two hour movie is too much language to absorbat once. Break it up into segments of 10 minutes or less, and review them multiple times until you have really learned something of substance.4 Engage with the material. A movie is an open book on body language, accents, inflection, pronunciation and many other areas of language learning. Don’t just sit on your han ds! Get involved in the story, act out parts, repeat lines and body movements and make the language come alive!5 As with movies and television shows, listening to music is often seen as a magic path to learning a language. The problem is that songs are written poetically so they aren't usually a good source for everyday grammar and vocabulary.6 Listening to songs does have its place in a language learning mission — as long as you have the right approach. Instead of repeating myself, I’ll just recommend th at you do the same as you would for movies or television shows: study the music (don’t listen passively), repeat segments (to really understand the material) and engage with the song (don’t just listen — sing!).7 One additional fix is to recognise that song lyrics often take creative license with a language, so while they are helpful to your studies, keep in mind that it is the equivalent to studying poetry. According to this passage, what is the writer’s purpose of writing this passage?A.To share techniques on how to effectively use movies to boost language learning.B.To show how to adjust some popular language learning approaches to level up language skills.C.To demonstrate how to learn language through songs and movies.D.To introduce some of the most popular language learning strategies.正确答案：B你选对了35单选(2分)1 On average, Americans spend just over 32 hours a week listening to music in 2017, up 5.5 hours over last year. How is this possible? Technology. At home, at work and traveling in between, people are consuming more music than ever before, from more devices.2 New technology and the latest gadgets allow listeners to seamlessly engage with music anywhere, anytime. Smartphones, laptops and tablets are among top devices for music engagement at home, and radio still dominates in-car listening, but new technology is becoming more and more relevant.3 Music listeners use an average of 3.4 devices in a typical week to engage with music (teens and Millennials average 3.8). Those who currently pay for streaming services use an average of 4.8, while weekly AM/FM radio streamers use an average of 5.5.4 While smartphones, laptops and television are still the most popular ways we listen to music, newer tech is becoming more mainstream, further personalizing at-home and in-car music experiences. Consumers are now incorporating voice-controlled devices and high-end specialized headphones into their weekly listening habits.5 U.S. music listeners value both quantity and quality, with 30% saying they’re willing to pay more for top-quality music technology. That number climbs to 40% among Millennials.According to this passage, how many hours a week did Americans spend on listening to music in。
福建师范大学智慧树知到“英语”《英美文学选读》网课测试题答案2
福建师范大学智慧树知到“英语”《英美文学选读》网课测试题答案（图片大小可自由调整）第1卷一.综合考核(共15题)1.Modern sonar makes it possible to ____ an underwater submarine.municateB.sinkC.searchD.locate2.At first, the _____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible, but, with the painstaking efforts and at great expense, it became a reality.A.transactionB.transmissionC.transformationD.transition3.In no case will they ____ with folded arms.A.pass byB.look onC.go byD.hold on4.She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.A.spoiledB.pouredC.spilledD.splashed5.American companies are evolving from mass-production manufacturing to ________ enterprises.A.moveableB.changingC.flexibleD.varying6.The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.A.objected havingB.were objected to havingC.objected to haveD.objected to having7.Most laboratory and field studies of human behavior. ______ taking a situational photograph at a given time and in a given place.A.attachposeC.involveD.enclose8.Inside the machine is an ____ arrangement of wires.A.incredibleB.internalC.intricateD.initial9.The bank refused to ______ him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.A.loanB.borrowC.leaseD.credit10.As he failed to win the first prize in the badminton match, he had to ____ the second.A.settle inB.settle forC.settle upD.settle with11.A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.A.automaticB.deliberateC.beneficialD.customary12.I never trust him because I always thought him as such a _____ character.A.graciousB.suspiciousC.uniqueD.particular13.Politically these nations tend to be ______, with very high birth rates but poor educationand very low levels of literacy.A.unsteadyB.unstableC.rationalD.reluctant14.James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.A.will comeB.was comingC.had been comingD.came15.Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.A.some type ofB.some types of aC.some type of aD.some types of第2卷一.综合考核(共15题)1.I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.A.something butB.anything butC.nothing butD.not but2.Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth _______ of American Independence.A.ceremonyB.anniversaryC.occasionD.occurrence3.Each inpidual is requested to state the ____ on which his judgments are based.A.requirementsB.measuresC.legislationsD.criteria 4.A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.A.makeB.advocateC.adjoinD.shape5.Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____ of the motor industry is uncertain.A.estimateB.terminalC.fateD.benefit6.Yor can hire a bicycle in many places. Usually you’ll have to pay a _________.A.depositB.dealC.fareD.fond7.Mr. Smith had an unusual _______ : he was first an office clerk, then a sailor, and ended up as a school teacher.A.professionB.occupationC.positionD.career8.Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.A.disputedB.discardedC.dismissedD.distorted9.I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.A.concentrationB.endeavorC.toleranceD.absorption10.I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have ____.A.vapouredB.vanishedC.vibratedD.reduced11.For a little while the girl ____ for her dead cat, but she got over it after a few days.A.achedB.depressedC.grievedD.upset12.He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do, ________ that he paid me back the following week.A.on occasionB.on purposeC.on conditionD.only if13.Equipment not ______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.A.conforming toB.consistent withC.predominant overD.providing for14.The party will ____ their leader very determinedly.A.adhere toB.coincide withC.cling toD.depend on15.He is too young to be able to ______ between right and wrong.A.discardB.discernC.disperseD.disregard第1卷参考答案一.综合考核1.参考答案：D2.参考答案：B3.参考答案：B4.参考答案：C5.参考答案：C6.参考答案：D7.参考答案：C8.参考答案：C9.参考答案：A10.参考答案：B11.参考答案：C12.参考答案：B13.参考答案：B14.参考答案：B15.参考答案：A第2卷参考答案一.综合考核1.参考答案：B2.参考答案：B3.参考答案：D4.参考答案：A5.参考答案：C6.参考答案：A7.参考答案：D8.参考答案：D9.参考答案：B10.参考答案：B11.参考答案：C12.参考答案：C13.参考答案：A14.参考答案：C15.参考答案：B。
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题4带答案
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题带答案（图片大小可任意调节）第1卷一.单选题(共20题)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck2.In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson3.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above wa ter. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway4.Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than5.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis onthe( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern6.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.7.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser8.In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided9.After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism10.The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman11.Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to12.In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway13.Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing14.Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James15.Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon16.Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland17.In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society asa closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne18.Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism19.The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald20.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It第2卷一.单选题(共20题)1.Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )witha double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age2.At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound3.What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable4.That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which5.“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue6.William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses7.She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with8.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain9.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War10.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time11.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England12.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald13.In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Ernest HemingwayD.Mark Twain14.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with16.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow17.In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald18.Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern19.Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poe ts in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement20.The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded第1卷参考答案一.单选题1.参考答案： A本题解析：《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作，也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。
American English 美式英语
It has been a tremendous success.
whipped cream on top of coffee
a place where parties happen
抱歉，你答错了。Slug 是花园里的一种虫子，但在 slugfest 这个词里，不是这个意思。请再试试。
恭喜你，答对了！A slugfest 是指激烈的拳击赛。
1 : In British English it's a pavement. In American it's a __________.
side order
sidewinder
side saddle
sidewalk
抱歉，你答错了。在餐馆吃饭时，side order 是主菜之外点的配菜, 比如色拉，蔬菜等。
6 : At a bus stop, the British form a queue. Americans __________.
stand at line
stand in line
make a queue
form a file
a lot of slugs get together in the garden
a boxing match with a lot of punching
whipped cream on top of coffee
a place where parties happen
美式英语和英式英语说法不同的理解
美式英语和英式英语说法不同的理解American English and British English are two variations of the English language that have some noticeable differences in vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. While both are mutually intelligible, there are some key distinctions that set them apart.One of the most striking differences between American English and British English is vocabulary. There are many words that are used differently or have different meanings in each variety of English. For example, in American English, the trunk of a car is called the "trunk," while in British English, it is known as the "boot." Similarly, in American English, a small restaurant where food is served quickly is called a "diner," while in British English, it is called a "cafe."Another difference between American English and British English is in spelling. While the majority of words are spelled the same in both varieties of English, there are some words that are spelled differently. For example, in American English, the word "color" is spelled without a "u," while in British English, it is spelled "colour." Similarly, in American English, the past tense of "learn" is "learned," while in British English, it is "learnt."Pronunciation is another area where American English and British English differ. There are many words that are pronounced differently in each variety of English. For example, in American English, the word "advertisement" is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, while in British English, the stress is on the second syllable. Similarly, in American English, the vowel sound in words like "dance" and "last" is pronounced as a short "a," while in British English, it is pronounced as a long "a."In addition to differences in vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation, there are also differences in grammar between American English and British English. For example, in American English, the past tense of "dream" is "dreamed," while in British English, it is "dreamt." Similarly, in American English, collective nouns are usually treated as singular, while in British English, they are often treated as plural.Overall, while American English and British English are similar in many ways, there are also some key differences that set them apart. These differences in vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, and grammar can sometimes lead to confusion or misunderstandings between speakers of the two varieties of English. However, with practice and exposure to both American English and British English, it is possible to become proficient inboth varieties of the language. Ultimately, the diversity of English language is what makes it such a rich and vibrant language, capable of expressing a wide range of ideas and emotions.。
小学上册K卷英语第六单元真题试卷
小学上册英语第六单元真题试卷英语试题一、综合题(本题有100小题，每小题1分，共100分.每小题不选、错误，均不给分)1.What do we use to write on paper?A. MarkerB. PaintC. ChalkD. All of the aboveD2.The cake is ________ (非常好吃).3.My mom is great at ____ (cooking) different dishes.4.The capital of Sweden is __________.5.They are __________ to the store.6.The chemical symbol for nickel is ______.7.I like to feed my ______ in the morning.8.I love to ______ (参与) in school clubs.9.The __________ (历史的声响) echoes through time.10.What do we call a person who helps us when we are sick?A. TeacherB. DoctorC. FarmerD. ChefB11.My uncle teaches me about . (我叔叔教我关于。
)12.The chemical symbol for iodine is ______.13.The starling can mimic other ______ (鸟) sounds.14.What is the name of the fairy tale character who lost her glass slipper?A. Snow WhiteB. CinderellaC. Sleeping BeautyD. RapunzelB15.The chemical formula for copper(I) oxide is _____.16.What is the main job of a farmer?A. TeachB. Grow cropsC. Repair carsD. Build housesB17.The _____ (花的形状) can vary greatly between species.18.The mouse is very ______ (灵活) and fast.19.The _____ (poppy) is often red in color.20.What do we call the center of the Earth?A. CoreB. MantleC. CrustD. SurfaceA21.I see a _____ on the table. (flower)22.How do you say "happy" in Spanish?A. FelizB. TristeC. EnojadoD. Contento23.Which food is made from milk and comes in many flavors?A. YogurtB. CheeseC. Ice creamD. Butter24.I love to ______ (与别人分享) my experiences.25.In a reaction, the component that is in excess will remain _____ after the reaction is complete.26.The chemical formula for sodium chloride is __________.27.When water freezes, it becomes _______.28.The capital of Vanuatu is __________.29.The Earth's interior contains both solid and ______ materials.30.What is the name of the famous monster in the movie "Frankenstein"?A. DraculaB. WolfmanC. Frankenstein's MonsterD. MummyC31. A __________ is a measurement of the angle of a slope.32.What do you call a person who helps sick people?A. TeacherB. NurseC. CarpenterD. FarmerB33.I want to ________ (learn) a new language.34.What do we call a piece of fruit that is often green?A. LemonB. AppleC. OrangeD. Banana35.He is a _____ (发明家) who creates new gadgets.36.My sister is a ______. She loves to create crafts.37.What do you call a large body of salt water?A. LakeB. RiverC. OceanD. Pond38. A ______ is a type of insect that can produce honey.39.What is the weather like when it rains?A. SunnyB. CloudyC. WetD. DryC40.My favorite type of ________ (食物) is sushi.41.小鸟) chirps cheerfully at dawn. The ___42.Herbs can be used in both ______ (烹饪) and medicine.43.What is the chemical formula for water?A. H2OB. CO2C. O2D. NaCl44.My sister, ______ (我妹妹), is interested in fashion design.45.I always help my mom clean the ________ (厨房) after dinner. It’s our little________ (家庭时间).46.The tree is ___ (bushing/barren).47.My dad is my ______ (爸爸). He plays soccer with me and helps me with my ______ (作业).48.I want to _____ (go/stay) at home.49.In a chemical reaction, substances are called _______.50.My uncle shares his __________ (经验) in life with us.51. A lizard can be found ______ on a rock.52.What is the name of the famous American singer known for her hit song "Like a Prayer"?A. MadonnaB. Britney SpearsC. Whitney HoustonD. Mariah CareyA Madonna53.The chemical formula for zinc oxide is __________.54.I like _______ (与人交谈) in different languages.55.What do we call a person who acts in movies?A. ActorB. DirectorC. ProducerD. ScreenwriterA56.The butterfly lands on a _____ flower.57.The raccoon is known for its _______ (灵活).58.Temperature is measured in degrees ______.59.The chemical symbol for gold is _____.60.The Declaration of Independence was signed in the year ________.61. A ferret is known for being very ______ (好动).62.The cake is ________ and sweet.63.ical plants need a lot of _____ (湿度). Sometime64.The ability to conduct electricity varies among ______.65.The first people to settle in Australia were the ______ (土著人).66.The _____ (花卉) industry provides many jobs.67.What is the most widely spoken language in the world?A. EnglishB. MandarinC. SpanishD. HindiB68.What is the tallest mountain in the world?A. K2B. KilimanjaroC. EverestD. AlpsC69.s are popular for their ______ (耐旱) qualities. Sugar di70.Which of these is a vegetable?A. AppleB. CarrotC. BananaD. Grape71. A ___ (小刺猬) curls up into a ball when scared.72.The ______ (物种多样性) is crucial for ecosystem health.73.The garden is alive with colorful _______ and buzzing insects.74.The __________ (历史的潮流) shapes our present.75.What is the capital of Italy?A. RomeB. FlorenceC. MilanD. Venice76.历史上，________ (events) 影响了国家的政治结构。
高中英语 Module1《British and American English》课件(2)(外研版必修5)
Read the first part and find out the topic sentence The first and most obvious way is in the vocabulary. What is the example? Americans drive ___________ automobiles down freeways and fill up with gas. The British drive cars along motorways _________ and fill petrol up with ________. As a tourist, you will need to use the underground in subway in New York, or maybe you will London or the _______ cab prefer to get around the town by taxi ( British ) or_____ (American).
the fifth part of the passage
Do you think they are quite different?
Can people from the two countries understand each other?
Read the passage and find ways in which British and American English are different. vocabulary spelling grammar and pronunciation.
What about Chinese characters?
Do you think people from different regions of China have difficulty in understanding Chinese characters?
American english and british english(2)
American and British EnglishHOST: Differences between American and British English. Language experts say that spoken English was almost the same in the American colonies and Britain. Americans began to change the sound of their speech after the Revolutionary War in seventeen seventy-six. They wanted to separate themselves from the British in language as they had separated themselves from the British government.Some American leaders proposed major changes in the language. Benjamin Franklin wanted a new system of spelling. His reforms were rejected. But his ideas influenced others. One was Noah Webster.Webster wrote language books for schools. He thought Americans should learn from American books. He published his first spelling book in seventeen eighty-three. Webster published The American Dictionary of the English Language in eighteen twenty-eight. It established rules for speaking and spelling the words used in American English.Webster believed that British English spelling rules were too plex. So he worked to establish an American version of the English language. For example, he spelled the word "center: c-e-n-t-e-r" instead of the British spelling "c-e-n-t-r-e". He spelled the word "honor " h-o-n-o-rinstead of "h-o-n-o-u-r" as it is spelled in Britain.Noah Webster said every part of a word should be spoken. That is why Americans say "sec-re-ta-ry" instead of "sec-re-t\'ry" as the British do. Webster\'s rule for saying every part of a word made American English easier for immigrants to learn. For example, they learned to say "waist-coat" the way it is spelled instead of the British "wes-kit".The different languages of the immigrants who came to the United States also helped make American English different from British English. Many foreign words and expressions became part of English as Americans speak it.Sometimes Americans and British people do not understand each other because of different word meanings. For example, a "jumper" in Britain is a sweater. In the United States, it is a kind of a dress. The British word "brolly" is an "umbrella" in America. A "wastebasket" in America is a "dustbin" in Britain. French fried potatoes in the United States are called "chips" in Britain.All these differences led British writer George Bernard Shaw to joke that Britain and America are two countries separated by the same language.。
烟台Unit,24年小学四年级上册C卷英语第4单元期末试卷
烟台Unit,24年小学四年级上册英语第4单元期末试卷考试时间：100分钟（总分:110）B卷考试人：_________题号一二三四五总分得分一、综合题(共计100题)1、填空题：The dolphin loves to _______ (跳跃) out of the water.2、听力题：I like to _____ (play/read) after school.3、填空题：The invention of the assembly line changed _____ manufacturing.4、听力题：A solution with high solute concentration is called ______.5、听力题：The _______ of a sound can be influenced by the surrounding environment.6、填空题：The _______ (The Harlem Renaissance) showcased African American culture and arts.7、填空题：The ______ (温室) helps plants grow in winter.8、What do we call the process of converting solid to liquid?A. FreezingB. MeltingC. BoilingD. Evaporating答案: B9、填空题：The __________ is a famous city known for its historical significance. (华盛顿特区)10、听力题：Minerals are naturally occurring ______ with a definite chemical composition.11、听力题：I like to ___ new friends. (meet)12、What is the name of the tree that produces acorns?A. PineB. MapleC. OakD. Birch答案: C13、What is the capital of Finland?A. HelsinkiB. EspooC. TampereD. Oulu答案: A14、选择题：What do we call a person who makes bread?A. BakerB. ChefC. CookD. Waiter15、What do you call a person who studies stars?A. BiologistB. AstronomerC. GeologistD. Chemist16、听力题：We can ___ a fun day at the beach. (have)17、填空题：__________ (反应中间体) are transient species formed during a chemical reaction.18、What do you call the person who fixes cars?A. DoctorB. TeacherC. MechanicD. Chef答案:C19、What is the capital of the Republic of the Congo?A. BrazzavilleB. KinshasaC. Pointe-NoireD. Libreville答案: A. Brazzaville20、填空题：A sheep provides us with ________________ (羊毛).21、听力题：My sister loves to dance ____ (hip-hop).22、填空题：The teacher prepares _____ (课程) for students.23、填空题：On hot days, I enjoy eating __________. (冰激凌)24、选择题：What do you use to write?A. PaperB. PencilC. RulerD. Eraser25、填空题：The vulture eats ______ (腐肉).26、 (33) Mountains separate Europe and Asia. 填空题：The ____27、Which fruit is known as a citrus fruit?A. AppleB. BananaC. OrangeD. Grape28、填空题：Dolphins are very _______ (聪明的).29、听力题：She has a ________ (collection) of coins.30、听力题：The chemical symbol for selenium is _______.31、听力题：The chemical symbol for oxygen is _______.32、听力题：The _______ is often used in cooking and baking.33、What is the main ingredient in a salad?A. FruitB. LettuceC. MeatD. Bread答案:B34、填空题：My sister is very ________ (有才华).35、填空题：My family enjoys __________ together. (一起吃饭)36、What do we call a group of animals that live together?A. PackB. FlockC. ColonyD. Herd答案:C37、填空题：The __________ (历史的动向) shapes our journey.38、n River is the ________ (流域) for many species. 填空题：The Amaz39、听力题：The pancakes are _______ (fluffy).40、What do we call the edge of a planet's atmosphere?A. StratosphereB. MesosphereC. TroposphereD. Exosphere答案:D41、听力题：Dolphins communicate using ______.42、What do you call a person who studies the environment?A. EcologistB. BiologistC. ChemistD. Physicist43、填空题：My favorite drink is ______.44、填空题：My best friend loves to _______ (动词) during summer vacation. 她觉得 _______ (形容词).45、填空题：My _____ (好友) lives far away.46、What is the opposite of "fast"?A. QuickB. SlowC. SpeedyD. Swift47、填空题：My cousin is very __________ (积极进取).48、选择题：What do we put on our heads when it’s sunny?A. ShoesB. HatC. GlovesD. Scarf49、填空题：I love to ______ (了解) new cultures.50、听力题：The _______ of a pendulum can be tested using a timer.51、听力题：Elements are divided into metals, nonmetals, and ________.52、填空题：The ________ makes a nice gift.53、填空题：The first electric motor was invented by _______. (法拉第)54、选择题：What do we call the study of the Earth's physical features?A. GeographyB. GeologyC. CartographyD. Astronomy55、填空题：The goat will eat almost anything, including ______ (纸).56、填空题：The _____ (小鸟) sings sweetly in the morning light.57、听力题：She is _______ (practicing) her piano skills.58、听力题：The chemical formula for phosphoric acid is ______.59、听力题：We will go ______ for a stroll after dinner. (outside)60、What is the closest planet to the sun?A. MercuryB. VenusC. EarthD. Mars61、听力题：My sister enjoys learning about ____ (science).62、What do we call the layer of air surrounding the Earth?A. AtmosphereB. LithosphereC. HydrosphereD. Biosphere答案: A. Atmosphere63、填空题：The _______ (The Spanish Conquest) of the Aztecs led to Spanish colonization.64、填空题：________ (植物保护项目) aim for sustainability.65、What is the main component of stars?A. WaterB. HydrogenC. OxygenD. Carbon66、What do we call the small pieces of paper we use to write notes?A. NotebookB. Sticky NotesC. Index CardsD. Post-it Notes67、听力题：We will go to the _____ (zoo/museum) this weekend.68、填空题：I can create art with my toy ________ (玩具名称).69、填空题：The ancient Romans utilized ________ (混凝土) in their construction.70、听力题：The sun is ___ (setting) over the horizon.71、听力题：The gases we breathe in and out are primarily _______ and carbon dioxide.72、What is the name of the famous American holiday celebrated on July 4th?A. ThanksgivingB. Independence DayC. Memorial DayD. Labor Day答案: B73、填空题：The __________ is perfect for a day at the park. (天气)74、What is the currency used in the United States?A. EuroB. DollarC. YenD. Pound答案:B75、What do we call the part of the plant that absorbs water?A. LeafB. StemC. RootD. Flower答案: C. Root76、填空题：A parakeet loves to chatter and ______ (吱吱叫).77、听力题：The ancient Egyptians used ________ for documenting their history.78、填空题：The assassination of ________ (肯尼迪) shocked the nation.79、What is 3 x 3?A. 6B. 7C. 9D. 1280、填空题：I like to play outside with my _______ (我喜欢和我的_______在外面玩).81、What is the tallest building in the world?A. Empire State BuildingB. Burj KhalifaC. Sears TowerD. Taipei 10182、填空题：I saw a _____ (小猫) sleeping in a sunny spot.83、填空题：The _____ (柠檬) tree is very sour.84、填空题：I want to plant a ________ to brighten my room.85、填空题：The _____ (果实) of the orange tree is juicy.86、What is the capital of Norway?a. Oslob. Stockholmc. Helsinkid. Copenhagen答案:a87、填空题：The ________ is very cute.88、听力题：The chemical formula for table salt is ______.89、What is the first month of the year?A. DecemberB. JanuaryC. FebruaryD. March答案:B90、What is the capital city of Finland?A. HelsinkiB. EspooC. TampereD. Vantaa91、听力题：The ______ is the part of the brain that controls emotions.92、填空题：We have ______ (很多) plants at home.93、填空题：The __________ (历史的影响) is felt in modern society.94、听力题：I want to travel to _____ (France/Fridge).95、填空题：The ancient Egyptians worshipped gods like ______ (拉) and ______ (伊西斯).96、选择题：What is the color of the sun?A. BlueB. YellowC. BlackD. Green97、What is the opposite of "up"?A. DownB. LeftC. RightD. Forward答案: A98、What is the capital of Bhutan?A. ThimphuB. ParoC. PunakhaD. Phuentsholing答案:A99、填空题：I like to play ________ (角色扮演) games with my friends.100、se invented ________ (纸) during the Han dynasty. 填空题：The Chin。
贵阳2024年02版小学第三次英语第六单元期中试卷
贵阳2024年02版小学英语第六单元期中试卷考试时间：90分钟（总分:100）A卷考试人：_________题号一二三四五总分得分一、综合题(共计100题)1、填空题：I enjoy writing stories about my _______ (梦想). They inspire me to reach for my goals.2、听力题：My dad drives a _____ car. (blue)3、听力题：My grandma bakes ____ (bread) every week.4、填空题：A _____ (植物互动) can encourage community involvement.5、填空题：The __________ of a country refers to its landforms and natural features. (地形)6、What do you call the sound a cow makes?a. Barkb. Meowc. Mood. Quack答案:c7、What is the capital of Peru?A. LimaB. CuscoC. ArequipaD. Trujillo答案: A8、填空题：The butterfly is _______ (颜色鲜艳).Covalent bonds are formed by the sharing of ______.10、听力题：The ______ is a critical part of the food web.11、听力题：Matter can exist in different states including _____, liquid, and gas.12、填空题：I can ______ (提高) my skills through practice.13、听力题：A __________ is a tool used to measure the density of a substance.14、听力题：Acids can donate protons, while bases can accept ______.15、听力题：Acids turn blue litmus paper _______.16、填空题：A _______ (马) can be very strong.17、填空题：I enjoy sharing ______ with my friends.18、填空题：I like to share my toys with ______.19、听力题：She is _____ (cooking) dinner.20、听力题：A ____ is a gentle creature that loves to graze on grass.21、What is the name of the device used to take pictures?A. CameraB. PhoneC. ComputerD. Television答案: A22、, I make _________ (手工艺品) out of my old _________ (玩具). 填空题：SometimeThe dolphin leaps out of the _______ (水).24、What is the name of the device we use to take photos?A. CameraB. PrinterC. ScannerD. Projector25、听力题：The cake is very ___. (delicious)26、填空题：My teacher makes learning __________ (快乐的).27、填空题：The first successful powered flight lasted _______ seconds. (12)28、听力题：The _____ (car) is fast.29、听力题：I have a _____ (玩具熊).30、选择题：Which animal is known as "man's best friend"?A. CatB. DogC. RabbitD. Parrot31、填空题：I can celebrate with my ________ (玩具类型).32、What do we call the study of the Earth's physical structure and substances?A. GeologyB. GeographyC. AstronomyD. Ecology33、填空题：The _____ (果树) is full of ripe fruit.34、听力题：A reaction that occurs at high temperatures is called a ______ reaction.My _______ (小狗) loves to bark.36、选择题：What do you call a person who writes stories?A. NovelistB. PoetC. AuthorD. All of the above37、填空题：Martin Luther King Jr. is known for his role in the ________ movement.38、What do you call the act of planting seeds?A. HarvestingB. CultivatingC. SowingD. Growing答案: C39、听力题：My grandma enjoys going to the ____ (farmers' market).40、填空题：The peacock dances to attract a _________. (伴侣)41、How many hours are in a day?A. 12B. 24C. 36D. 4842、What is 25 ÷ 5?A. 3B. 4C. 5D. 6答案:C43、听力题：The ________ (glasses) are on the table.44、What is the opposite of friendly?A. HostileB. KindC. SociableD. Amiable答案:A45、听力题：The Earth's surface is constantly being reshaped through ______ processes.46、选择题：What do we call the place where we go to learn about history?A. MuseumB. LibraryC. SchoolD. Archive47、听力题：The kids are ___ (laughing).48、听力题：In a chemical equation, the substances that react are called ______.49、听力题：A saturated solution cannot dissolve ______ solute.50、填空题：Mount Kilimanjaro is located in ________ (坦桑尼亚).51、What do you use to eat soup?A. ForkB. SpoonC. KnifeD. Plate答案: B52、选择题：What do trees produce that is essential for life?A. OxygenB. Carbon dioxideC. NitrogenD. Hydrogen53、What is the name of the famous monument in India?A. Taj MahalB. Qutub MinarC. Gateway of IndiaD. Red Fort答案:A54、听力题：My sister is a ______. She loves fashion design.55、填空题：My dad is a _____ (商人) who travels for work.56、听力题：She is a great ________.57、填空题：__________ (化学论坛) allow for discussion of recent findings and trends.58、听力题：She is ________ (kind) to her friends.59、n Wall was built to divide _______ Germany. (东) 填空题：The Blac60、填空题：The capital of the Dominican Republic is ________ (圣多明各).61、What do we call the study of ancient civilizations?A. ArchaeologyB. AnthropologyC. HistoryD. Sociology答案:A62、What do you call the line separating day and night?A. EquatorB. HorizonC. MeridianD. Axis答案:B63、听力题：The stars are _____ (shining/hiding) in the night sky.64、What is the square root of 16?A. 2B. 3C. 4D. 5答案: C65、What do you call a person who repairs cars?A. DoctorB. MechanicC. ChefD. Teacher答案:B66、填空题：I like to go ________ (爬山) with my friends.67、填空题：The __________ is a famous landmark in Beijing. (天坛)68、Which of these is a flying mammal?A. SparrowB. BatC. EagleD. Penguin答案:B69、选择题：What is the color of a typical banana?A. RedB. YellowC. GreenD. Brown70、What do you call a group of ants?A. ColonyB. SwarmC. HiveD. Flock答案:A71、填空题：I like to _______ the world around me.72、Which planet is known as the Red Planet?A. EarthB. JupiterC. MarsD. Saturn答案:C73、What do we call the time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun?A. YearB. MonthC. DayD. Week答案:A74、填空题：I saw a ___ (小蛇) slithering across the path.75、听力题：The chemical symbol for francium is _______.76、What is the opposite of hot?A. ColdB. WarmC. CoolD. Boiling77、听力题：A catalyst lowers the activation energy needed for a _____.78、填空题：The __________ (历史的重构) allows for fresh interpretations.79、What do you call the main character in a story?A. VillainB. ProtagonistC. NarratorD. Supporting character答案:B80、听力题：The _______ of an object can be determined by its shape.81、听力题：The _____ (daisy) is blooming.82、听力题：She has a ___ (pretty/ugly) smile.83、听力题：The ______ helps us understand different religions.84、听力题：The _____ (山脉) is beautiful in winter.85、听力题：The _____ (road) is busy.86、听力题：I hear a ___. (bell)87、What is the name of the famous singer known for "Like a Rolling Stone"?A. Elton JohnB. Bob DylanC. Bruce SpringsteenD. Johnny Cash答案：B88、听力题：The Earth's crust is mostly composed of rocks and ______.89、听力题：The process of changing from a gas to a liquid is called _______.90、填空题：I planted some __________ (香草) in my kitchen garden.91、What do you call the frozen form of water?A. SteamB. IceC. VaporD. Rain答案:B92、听力题：We will _______ (meet) at the park.93、填空题：The pyramids were built as ________ for pharaohs.94、听力题：The law of conservation of mass states that mass cannot be created or _____.95、填空题：The weather is ________ (很好) today.96、听力题：A chemical reaction can result in a temperature ______.97、What is the term for a group of stars?A. GalaxyB. ClusterC. ConstellationD. Nebula答案:C98、What do we call the act of cultivating personal growth?A. Self-ImprovementB. DevelopmentC. GrowthD. All of the Above答案：D99、选择题：Which animal is known for building dams?A. BeaverB. FoxC. RabbitD. Squirrel100、Which instrument has keys and is played by pressing them?A. GuitarB. ViolinC. PianoD. Drum答案:C。
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The sound and style of American EnglishA Course in Foreign Accent Reduction Dr.David Alan Stern INTRODUCTION I WANT TO REDUCE MY ACCENT. WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO FIRST? There are two basic skills you must learn right away if you want your speech to sound more American. First, you must learn the correct INTONATION. Intonation means the pitch changes and rhythms of a language or dialect. Once you begin Americanizing your intonation, native speakers will almost immediatlely become more comfortable with your speech and begin following your ideas much more easily. Second, you must change the way you move your moth muscles during the speech. Every language or dialect hs a unique way its speakers move their mouths. This leads to the language's special "sound" -- its very own resonance or voice tone. To reduce your accent, you must stop using the muscles as you did with your first language and substitute movements that produce this uniquely American tone. The first two-thirds of this audio contains exercises that teach you to produce American intonation and voice tone.Course 1LESSON 1: THE MUSIC OF AMERICAN SPEECH IN THIS LESSON THE TAPE TEACHES YOU THE INTONATION (PITCH CHANGE) PATHERN WHICH IS CHARACTERISTIC OF WELL SPOKEN, STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH When it is spoken well, American speech has what I call a JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern of pitch change. that means that, inside each phrase or unit of thought, the pitch jumps up to a higher note on an early, important word. Then, it steps down a little bit on each syllable that follows within that unit. Most speakers of English as a second language do not use this JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern. People from some languages use little or no pitch change. In other languages, speakers use upward glides in pitch to emphasize ideas. With its JUMP UP / STEP DOWN pattern, American English does neither of these things. Listen to the instructions and examples on the tape. They show you exactly how to do the simplest form of the JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern. After the first few demonstrations, the tape asks you to listen to the samples and apply the pattern yourself to sentence Group I. The first time through, try using the pattern only once in each sentence by jumping in pitch on the words that I've underlined.INTRODUCTION GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE YOU TODAY. CALL HIM ON THE OFFICE TELEPHONE. GOOD MORNING I'M VERY HAPPY TO MEET YOU. I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE YOU. I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE YOU TODAY.SENTENCE GROUP II'M VERY PLEASED TO MEET YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR CALLING. I'D LIKE TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR NEXT THURSDAY. I'M GOING OUT OF TOWN AT THE END OF NEXT WEEK. I WON'T BE BACK IN THE OFFICE TILL THE FOLLOWING MONDAY. THERE'S TOO MUCH NOISE ON THE STREET WHERE WE LIVE. I DON'T WANT TO GO THERE ANYMORE. MY CAR BROKE DOWN ON THE FREEWAY THIS AFTERNOON. MY OFFICE IS ON THE THIRD FLOOR, RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE ELEVATOR. I'LL NEVER BE HOME ON TIME IF I KEEP GETTING TELEPHONE CALLS.Of course, there aren't any totally right or totally wrong places for beginning these JUMP UP and STEP DOWN units. In many phrases and sentences, you have a choice of more than one place where you can begin the pattern by jumping up in pitch. Similarly, there are many atatements in which you can use a JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern two, or three, or perhaps even four times. Of course. the longer the sentence, the more often you'd be able to begin a new pattern by jumping up and stressing a new idea. The tape will give you several examples of this principle using the last sentence from Group I. 10A. I'LL NEVER GET HOME ON TIME IF I KEEP GETTING TELEPHONE CALLS. Next, the tape shows you how you can use more than one JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern in the first five sentences from the group. Try those sentences again, this time jumping up in pitch twice during each sentence. I'M VERY PLEASED TO MEET YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR CALLING. I'D LIKE TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR NEXT THURSDAY. I'M GOING OUT OF TOWN AT THE END OF NEXT WEEK. I WON'T BE BACK IN THE OFFICE TILL THE FOLLOWING MONDAY. The tape now asks you to try an experiment. Read Sentence Group II very expressively, but with your current accent. While you're speaking, pay attention to exactly what you are doing to stress important ideas. Now,translate the sentences in your first language; speak them enthusiastically, and see what you do to stress ideas. I hope that these exercises show most of you that you already know when to stress important words. But, in your old language or accent, you usedifferent tools of pitch or loudness to create the same effect. The tape then asks you to go back to the English sentences and try stressing the same important ideas you just discovered. This time, however, try using the new JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern instead of the tools from your old language. Listen carefullyto those instructions on the tape, and then try that experiment with the sentences in Group Two. For the first time, you will be trying to apply the JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern by yourself, without imitating a model on the tape.SENTENCE GROUP II I'D LIKE TO WELCOME ALL OF YOU TO THIS MEETING. I'LL BEGIN BY INTRODUCING MYSELF TO YOU. MY NAME IS _____________________ , AND I'VE BEEN PRESIDENT OF THIS COMPANY FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. I'VE SEEN A LOT OF CHANGES IN THAT TIME. YES, WE'VE CERTAINLY MADE A GREAT DEAL OF PROGRESS. BUT THERE IS STILL A LOT MORE TO DO IF WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW. STARTING NEXT WEEK, WE WILL BEGIN A BRAND NEW PROJECT. ALTHOUGH OUR GOALS ARE NEW, WE STILL NEED THE SAME DEDICATION AND THE SAME HARD WORK YOU HAVE ALREADY SHOWN US. I HOPE THAT THE NEXT TEN YEARS OF PROGRESS WILL MAKE THE LAST TEN SEEM SMALL BY COMPARISON.At the end of Lesson #1, the tape tells you to try using the JUMP UP and STEP DOWN pattern in the little speech which results when you put SENTENCE GROUP II together into a single paragraph. The under lined words are just suggestions for pitch jumps.SENTENCE GROUP II (as a complete speech)"I'd like to welcome all of you to this meeting. I'll begin by introducing myself to you. My name is David Alan Stern, and I've been president of this company for the last ten years. I've seen a lot of changes in that time. Yes, we've certainly made a great deal of progress. But there is still a lot more to do if we're going to continue to grow, Starting next week, we will begin a brand new project. Although our goals are new, we still need the same dedication and the same hard work you have already shown us. I hope that the next ten years of progress make the last ten seem small by comparison."LESSON 2: RELAXING THE LIPS AND FRONT MOUTHIN THIS LESSON, THE TAPE TEACHES YOU TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND BEGIN SPEECH MOVEMENTS WITHOUT USING A LOT OF MUSCLE PUSH IN THE LIPS AND THE FRONT OF THE MOUTH. In every language and dialect, speakers form words with a different style of muscle movements. Each of these muscle styles creates a slightly different type of voice resonance. This resonance (which some people call "tone focus" or "voice placement") sounds very different from one language to another. When the muscle style of your first language is used to speak a different language, the resulting voice tone creates a big part of what native speakers hear as a "foreign accent." American English is formed with very little muscle work in the lips and the front of the mouth. Follow the instructions on the tape very carefully. You'll begin by relaxing the front of your mouth and producing the "AH" sound. After that you'll go on to other exercises where you speak the numbers, the days of the week, and the months of the year.LESSON 3: CHANGING THE POSITION OF YOUR TONGUEIN THIS LESSON YOU LEARN TO BEGIN USE THE MUSCLES IN THE BACK OF YOUR TONGUE WHICH ARE NECESSARY TO CREATE THE RESONANCE OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. This lesson begins one of the most important parts of your accent reduction process. To get the American speech style, you have to create most of the speech movement using the muscles in the back of your tongue. That process begins with a very simple step. You must be able to relax your tongue and put it into the specific shape which I call THE STARTING POSITION. On the next page there's a picture of a tongue being held in that position. As you play the tape, refer to this picture and look in a mirror while trying to recreate that same position and shape. Once you can move your tongue into the STARTING POSITION at will, you must learn to produce a downward movement in the rear tongue as you begin making sounds. Follow the instructions on the tape extremely closely as you go through the second half of Lesson #3. You begin with your tongue in the STARTING POSITION and create an "AH" sound using only those muscles in the back of your tongue. This is one of the most important lessons in all of your training. This movement style allows you to create the TONGUEIN THE CORRECT "STARTING POSITION"Tongue is lying in a concave position (the middle is lower than the sides). Tip of the tongue is lying just against bottom-front teeth. Rear tongue is low, not arching up in back. You can easily see the back of the throat between the tongue and palate. Resonance traits of American English when you combine it with other tongue movements you'll learn in the next lesson.LESSON 4: CREATING SPEECH IMPULSE IN THE REAR TONGUETHIS LESSON TEACHES YOU TO CREATE SPEECH MOVEMENTS WITH THE MUSCLES IN THE REAR TONGUE, WHILE CONTINUING TO RELAX THE LIPS AND FRONT MOUTH. This lesson is extremely important. Here's where you learn how the different parts of your muth should feel when you use the American style of muscle movement. Follow the instructions on the tape very closely. You'll begin by learning to glide your tongue from the AH-position (that you created in the last lesson) into a sharp EE-sound. Most importantly, you will learn how to control this movement with the muscles in the back of the tongue. You will then learn to modify this "AH-EE" combination by using what I call the QUICK AMERICAN GLIDE. In this special form, the first stage (AH) takes more time than the last stage (EE). In addition, the pitch of your voice glides down noticeably as you begin the second stage of the sound. Make sure you learn to do this QUICK AMERICAN GLIDE extremely well. It will be particularly important in Lesson #5 when you study the Amer- ican pronunciations of the five diphthongs (double vowels). In order for them to sound really American, all five of them will have to contain the very same tongue movement and downward glide in pitch. Finally, Lesson #4 gives you the opportunity to use the new muscle movements in other sound combinations and words. You'll begin by producing relaxed consonants at the end of the AH-EE glide. Next, you'll attach the relaxed consonant sounds at the beginning of the glide. At this point, you'll have to pay very close attention to how your tongue feels during this type of movement. Your next task will be to reproduce that feeling when you are combining other sounds. You'll use that new style of muscle movement while speaking again the words for the numbers 1-10, the days of the week, and the months of the year. Once again, follow the directions on the tape very closely as you practice the exercises in Less #4 several times.LESSON 5: AMERICAN VOWEL PRONUNCIATIONSIN THIS LESSON THE TAPE TEACHES YOU THE AMERICAN PRONUNCIATION OF SEVEN IMPORTANT VOWEL SOUNDS. YOU WILL LEARN TO PRODUCE THESE PRONUNCIATIONS IN COMBINATION WITH THE PITCH AND MUSCULARITY STYLES YOU ALREADY LEARNED. I told you earlier how important it was to learn American intonation and muscle styles before doing pronunciation drills. Well, the time has come. You're now about to begin studying the actual American pronunciations of vowels and consonants. PLEASE REMEMBER TO KEEP USING THE TWO SKILLS YOU JUST LEARNED. If you forget to use the American muscle style and the JUMP UP and STEP DOWN intonation, it's unlkely that you will ever come close to native-sounding pronunciation. THE FIVE DIPHTHONGS The five American diphthongs, or double vowels, are the best examples of why you must continue using verything you've already learned when trying to correct your pronunciation. In order to sound like they're coming from a native speaker, these sounds must be produced with both downward pitch movement and a lot of muscle work in the rear tongue. In other words, each of these sounds must be made with the QUICK AMERICAN GLIDE you just studied in the last lesson. Follow the instructions on the tape closely. Repeat the sounds, words, and sentences which are modeled on the tape. After each of the five sounds, stop the tape. You'll find additional words and sentences for that vowel printed in the manual. Try using the same techniques on those additional drills, even though they are not modeled for you on the tape. 1. THE "AH-EE" DIPHTHONG (as in "sky" and "mile") MILE, NIGHT, TIME, ADVICE, IDENTIFY I'M REALLY FINE. IT'S A SIGN OF THE TIMES. I TRIED TO FIND MYSELF. MY GUIDE AND I HAD A FINE TIME. Now try these additional drills that aren't recorded on the tape.HIGH, ICY, EYE, DIE, SHY, RIDE, FILE, CRY, AISLE, FLIGHT, CRIME, RIGHT, LIGHT, BRIGHT, WHILE, SLICE, VIRUS, BAPTIZE, ADVICE, PLIABLE, STYLE, SPICY, SHINE, PINE, PILE, RHYMEI DON'T HAVE TIME TO FIND HIM.PLEASE TRANSCRIBE ALL FIVE DIALOGUES.LIFE ON DRY LAND ISN'T VERY EXCITING.MY SON IS THE PRIDE OF MY LIFE.THERE WERE FIVE KINDS OF DRIED SPICED.HE SLICED THE FRIED FISH ON FRIDAY NIGHT.2. THE "AH-OO" DIPHTONG (as in "house" and "out")OUT, HOUR, OUNCE, MOUSE, SHOWER, ABOUT, COUNT, FLOWER THEY WENT OUT OF TOWNTHEY CROWDED AROUND.HE RAN AROUND AND ABOUT THE TOWN.HE'S PROUD OF LOSING ABOUT TEN POUNDS.Now continue practicing with the following words and sentences. COWARD, POWDER, AMOUNT, ANNOUNCE, OUNCE, MOUNTAIN, SOUTH, ABOUND, PROFOUND, ALLOW, ROUND, BROWN, CROWD, TOWEL, MOUSE, DOWN, FOUL, BOUND, FLOWER, HOUSE, FOUND, CONFOUND, HOWIT WAS THE LOUDEST HOUND IN TOWN.THEY FOUND IT AROUND THE HOUSE.I DOUBT THAT FLOWERS CAN GROW IN THAT GROUND.THE LOUD CROWD PROWLED AROUND THE TOWN.HE COUNTED THE HOURS AFTER SHE WENT OUT.WILD FLOWERS GROW OUT THERE IN THE MOUNTAINS.3. THE "EH-EE" DIPHTHONG (as in "aim" and "great")AIM, ACE, APRIL, EIGHT, CAME, BABY, GREAT, SHAME, FAILURE IT'S A GREAT DAY, TODAY.THEY SAILED AWAY TO SPAIN.HE'S A REAL ESTATE AGENT.IT WAS A GREAT DAY IN APRIL.Now continue practicing with these additional drills.WEIGHT, CHASED, RAIN, DISPLAY, TAKE, PLAYER, NEIGHBOR, MAYBE, HASTE, SAFETY, INVESTIGATE, FREIGHT, TRAIL, JAILER, WHALE, FRAME, HAZE, LAKE, AGGRAVATE, ATE SAGE, PAIN, APE, LACE GREAT PAIN CAME OUR WAY TODAY.KATE HAS THE MOST FAMOUS FACE IN THE NATION.DON'T DELAY MAILING YOUR PAYMENT.MY REAL ESTATE AGENT FOUND AN EIGHT ACRE LOT.THE WHALES SPRAYED WATER WHILE SWIMMING AWAY.DON'T FAIL TO TAKE A WALK BY THE LAKE.4. THE "OH-OO" DIPHTHONG (as in "old" and "snow")OVER, OLD, OPEN, SO, GROW, MOMENT, SLOWLYTHE BOAT WENT OVER THE OCEAN.SMOKE ROLLED OUT OF THE WINDOW.JOE PUT THE DOUGH INTO THE BOWL.HE FLOATED HOME IN THE ROWBOAT.Now try these additional drills.LOW, ROMANCE, PHOTO, WROTE, NOTION, GHOST, GROCERY, BLOWN, SO, TOMATO, PHONE, OAKEN, MOMENT, MOTION, DON'T, WINDOW, BOLD, LOAF, FOLD, CONE, HOPE, SEW, MOLE, ECHO, LOAN, OLD, COAL, HOTEL, FOLDTHE OBOE AND CELLO SAT ALONE.THE TONE OF THE ECHO ROLLED OVER THE HILLS.HE ATE A ROAST WITH A TOMATO.I SAID HELLO TO ALL THE FOLKS I KNOW.IT SNOWED IN OHIO OVER THE HOLIDAYS.THE OWNER OF THE BOAT ROWED HOME ALONE.5. THE "AW-EE" DIPHTHONG (as in "boy" and "oil")OYSTER, OIL, OINTMENT, VOICE, TOIL, APPOINTMENTROY HEARD A JOYFUL NOISE.THE BOY OILED HIS TOY.THE SOYBENS WERE IN THE SOIL.HE REJOICED BY EATING OYSTERS.Now try the same sound on these additional drills.REJOICE, COIL, POISE, VOID, SPOIL, BROIL, ASTEROID, APPOINT, AVOID, VOYEUR, MOISTURE, CLOISTER, HOIST, SOY SAUCE, CHOICE, EXPLOIT, ENJOY, ROYALTY, POIGNANT, JOIN, OILY, LOIN, COINTHE OTHER BOYS JOINED IN THE NOISE.HIS ROYAL HEAD WAS ANOINTED WITH OIL.DON'T LOITER ON NOISY CITY STREETS.BOIL THE FISH; THEN BROIL IT WITHOUT ANY OIL.SOMETIMES ROYAL EXPLOITS ITS LOYAL SUBJECTS.HE APPOINTED ROY TO GET OINTMENT FOR HIS JOINTS.TWO UNUSUAL VOWELSThere are two vowel sounds that exist in very few languages other than English. They are the vowels in the words "cat" and "sun." Follow the directions on the tape for the correct pronunciations of these sounds.1. THE "UH" SOUND (as in "under" and "mother")BUT, HUT, UNDER, US, MOTHER, LOVE, SON, MONDAYTHE PUPPY DUG UNDER THE FENEC.THE BUM STUMBLED INTO THE LUMBER YARD.MY MOTHER LOVED MY BROTHER VERY MUCH.WE COVERED UP THE OTHER COUPLE'S LUNCH.Now try the additional drills for this vowel.STUBBRON, UNTER, RUSH, NUN, DELUXE, TROUBLE, COVER, HUSH, STRUGGLE, DISCUSS, WONDER, STUDY, BRUSH, LUNCH, COME, BUS, STUMP BRUNT, SUPPER, BUNK, NOTHING, MUMBLE, STUDY, UNSUNG THE STUNTMAN STUMBLED AND TUMBLED INTO THE MUD.THE DRUNK MUMBLED SOMETHING UNDER HIS BREATH.COME TO LUNCH WITH MY BROTHER AND ME.I WONDER IF GUS CAN COME UP TO THE HUNTING LODGESHUT UP ABOUT THE BLOOD STAIN UNDER THE TABLE.MOTHER'S CLUB ACTIVITIES TAKE MUCH OF HER TIME.2. THE "A" SOUND (as in "at" and "man")MAN, BAT, CAT, HAND, DISASTER, ANSWERTHE MAN IS STANDING BACK THERE.LAST HIGHT THE CAT ABANDONED THE KITTENS.I CAN'T STAND YOUR LACK OF MANNERS.ASK ANY BASHFUL MAN IF HE CAN DANCE.Once again, try the additional drills.AFTER, PASSAGE, BASKET, HALF, ASK, PATH, CASTLE, TRAP, COMMAND, AS, MASS, FRANCE, GLASS, ADMIRAL, SANDWICH, FABRIC, BATH, LAUGH, APPLE, ABSOLUTE, MASTER, GRAND, STAND, AVERAGE, CATEGORY, ANDTHE PASSENGERS WERE TRAPPED WITHOUT THEIR BAGGAGE.THE GLASS SHATTERED AFTER DAN TRIED TO STAND ON IT.HE PASSED OUT HALWAY UP THE PATH.HE COMMANDED THE CASTLE AFTER THE CAPTAIN ABANDONED IT.I CAN'T ACCEPT THAT ANSWER FROM AN ATHLETIC MAN.IT'S A BAD HABIT TO TAP YOUR HAND ON THE WAX APPLES.LESSON 6: THE MORE DIFFICULT AMERICAN CONSONANTSListen closely to the tape for exact instructions on how to produce each of the difficult English consonant sounds.1. THE "TH" SOUNDS (as in "this" and "think")(voiced)THIS, THAT, THE, OTHER, THEM, THEY (voiceless)THING, ATHLETE, THROW, FOURTHTHEY DID THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER THINGTHANK YOU FOR THINGKING OF ME.DON'T THROW THAT AT THEM.Now here are some additional "th" drills.(voiced)THESE, THIS, THEN, THAT, THE, THEY, THY THOU, GATHER, NORTHERN, SOUTHERN, LEATHER, TEETHE, SOOTHE, LATHE, WEATHER(voiceless)THESIS, THISTLE, THESPIAN, THATCH, THUNDER, THANK, THIGH, THOUSAND, BREATHY, MONTHLY, APATHY, AUTHOR, CATHODE, WRATH, TEETH, SOOTH, EIGHTH, SEVENTHTHAT THING OVER THERE IS THOROUGHLY ANNOYING.THE THISTLE STUCK INTO THROCKMORTON'S THICK THUMB. FORSOOTH, THE OINTMENT WILL SOOTHE THAT THROBBING PAIN. THE SEETHING THING WAS THOROUGHLY ANNOYING.2. THE "H" SOUND (as in "home" and "hello")HERE, HAVE, HAD, AND, HISTORY, HAPPY, INHERITHE'S HAPPY THAT YOU SAID HELLO.HOLD THE HELPLESS CHILD'S HAND.MY HEART FEELS HEAVY WHEN I HEAR YOU.Now try these additional "h" drills.HOLD, HANG, HAIL, INHALE, INHIBIT, HOOP, HOME, HOUSE, HERO, HEN, HAPHAZARD, HERMIT, HILL, HAMSTER, HERMAN, HORMONE, HAMBURGERTHE HANDSOME MAN INHERITED A HORSE RANCH.HURRY OVER HERE, HENRY.HE INHALED AND EXHALED VERY HEAVILY.HANK INHERITED A HUNDRED DOLLARS FROM HIS HISTORY TEACHER.HOLD ON TO THE HANDLE AND INHALE HAPPLILY.HOMECOMING HARDLY EVER HAPPENS HERE ANY MORE.3. THE "V" AND "W" SOUNDS (as in "very" and "work")VERY, VISIT, EVERY, FEVER, HARVEST, SAVEEVERY TIME I VISIT I SEE A VISION.I LOVE TO DIVE OVER THE ROCKS.I HAVE AVOIDED PLACING AVERAGE ADVERTISEMENTS.VEST/WEST WORSE/VERSE WENT/VENTWE, WILL, WAX, WALK, WAKEWILLIAM WORKED HARDED ON WEDNESDAY.WAIT WHILE I WARM UP THE WORKROOM.DID HE WALK IN THROUGH THE WINDOW?I WISH WENDY WOULD WEAR WARMER CLOTHES.Now try these additional drills for these two sounds.VEAL, VISIT, VEST, VOODOO, VAUGHN, VACATE, VOTE, BIBRATE, VOID, VEER, VARY, VAT, FEVER, HARVEST, AVOID, SAVE, GRIEVE, RELIEVE, LOVE, SHELVES, WAVE, GROOVE, GROVE, LEAVE, HAVE WE, WILL, WEST, WAX, WOOED, WOOD, WALK, WOK, WOKE, WAKE, WOW, WAR, WERE, WONDER, WHALE, WHICH, WHAT, WHEN WHITE, WIT, WORRY WHEN VICK WORKED ON WEEKENDS HE GOT VERY TIRED.I LOVE TO WATCH WHALES, BUT I AVOID WAVING AT THEM.SHE WONDERED WHETHER TO VACTE THE WARM VILLAGE.I AVERAGE FIVE HOURS OF WORK A DAY DURING HARVEST.WHERE DID VIVIAN WANDER EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING?THERE'S A VILLAGE IN THE WOODS IN WESTERN VERMONT.4. THE AMERICAN "R" AND "l" (as in "red" and "long")REST, ROOM, ROMANCE, REPEAT, ROYAL, ROUNDREMEMBER THE RED ROSES ON THE GROUND?I READ A REALLY GOOD ROMANCE NOVEL.THE ROOM WILL BE READY FOR YOU TO REST.LIVER/RIVER LOOK/ROOK LOT/ROT LONG/WRONGELEMENT/ERROR ALAN/AARON PEEL/PEER POOL/POORLET, LOOK, LOST, LONELY, LONG, ELEMENT, SELDOMLARRY HAS BEEN LATE ELEVEN TIMES.LET ME LOAN YOU MONEY FOR THE LAUNDRY.PLEASE ALLOW HER TO LOOK FOR GOLD.Now try these additional drills for "L" and "R."REPEAT, RID, REST, RAT, ROOT, ROOKIE, ROUGH, RAKE, ROAST, TRUE, TREE, CROP, THRILL, FREE, BREW, GRADE, FREIGHT, CHROME, BROIL, LEAP, LET, LATCH, LOOK, LOST, LUCK, ELEMENT, ELABORATE, ILLUMI NATE, ALABAMA, POLITICAL, EMLOYMENT, ELEMENTARY, SELDOM, PEEL, PILL, SPELL, GAL, POOL, PULL, TOLL, TALE, GIRL, ALLLARRY WOULD REALLY LIKE TO REMOVE THE FRONT LAWN. CHILDREN ARE LESS LIKELY TO ROAM AROUND AFTER ELEVEN. RICHARD LEARNED TO SPELL SOME REALLY HARD WORDS.THE RED RIVER IS LOVELY AS IT FLOW IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE.HE READS THE REAL ESTATE LISTINGS DAILY.FRANK LIVED ACROSS THE HILL FROM A REALLY LOVELY FARM.LESSON 7: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER!You will find the PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER passage printed several times on the next few pages. Listen to my reading of theis passage on the tape in Lesson #7. Then mark up the scripts on the next few pages to remind yourself about the different skills you've been trying to master.Mark this first printing of the script with reminders about the places you might begin JUMP UP and STEP DOWN units of into- nation. Underline the words where the pitch jumps will happen. You might even use different colored pencils to indicate as may different options as you want. Remember, there's no one correct place to begin intonation units.PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHERHELLO, MY NAME IS DAVID, I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE YOU. I'VE BEEN WANTING TO COME DOWN HERE FOR A LONG TIME. I JUST DIDN'T GET THE CHANCE BEFORE THIS. THAT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD, AND VERY LONG HOURS FOR A LONG TIME. BUT NOW THAT I'M HERE, I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME IMPORTANT THINGS I'VE BEEN DOING LATELY. I'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WORKING ON MY SPEECH -- TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO USE MORE OF AN AMERICAN SPEECH STYLE. I'M USING A LOT MORE PITCH CHANGE NOW. BUT I'M NOT SLIDING UP IN PITCH. I'M USING THE AMERICAN INTONA- TION PATTERN THAT A GUY NAMED STERN CALLS THE JUMP UP AND STEP DOWN PATTERN. IT'S ALSO NECESSARY FOR ME TO REALX THE FRONT OF MY MOUTH AND USE THE MUSCLES IN THE BACK OF MY TONGUE MORE THAN I USED TO. I ALSO STARTED WORKING ON SOME DIFFICULT PRONUNCIA- TION. I REALLY HOPE IT'S PAID OFF. WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW DO I SOUND?Use this second printing of the passage to mark the vowel sounds you practiced in Lesson #5 -- especially the ones that you have the most trouble producing. Remember to use the QUICK AMERICAN GLIDE technique on all of the double vowels. Then try combining the intonation units you practiced on the last page with the correct pronuciations you're drilling here.PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHERHELLO, MY NAME IS DAVID, I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE YOU. I'VE BEEN WANTING TO COME DOWN HERE FOR A LONG TIME. I JUST DIDN'T GET THE CHANCE BEFORE THIS. THAT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD, AND VERY LONG HOURS FOR A LONG TIME. BUT NOW THAT I'M HERE, I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME IMPORTANT THINGS I'VE BEEN DOING LATELY. I'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WORKING ON MY SPEECH -- TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO USE MORE OF AN AMERICAN SPEECH STYLE. I'M USING A LOT MORE PITCH CHANGE NOW. BUT I'M NOT SLIDING UP IN PITCH. I'M USING THE AMERICAN INTONA- TION PATTERN THAT A GUY NAMED STERN CALLS THE JUMP UP AND STEP DOWN PATTERN. IT'S ALSO NECESSARY FOR ME TO REALX THE FRONT OF MY MOUTH AND USE THE MUSCLES IN THE BACK OF MY TONGUE MORE THAN I USED TO. I ALSO STARTED WORKING ON SOME DIFFICULT PRONUNCIA- TION. I REALLY HOPE IT'S PAID OFF. WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW DO I SOUND?Use this third printing of the passage to mark and practice the consonant sounds you learned in Lesson #6. Finally, attempt to read the passage with a mixture of everything you practiced on the last few pages. In addition, continue reminding yourself to generate speech movement with relaxed lips and with the American style of tongue muscularity.PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHERHELLO, MY NAME IS DAVID, I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE YOU. I'VE BEEN WANTING TO COME DOWN HERE FOR A LONG TIME. I JUST DIDN'T GET THE CHANCE BEFORE THIS. THAT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD, AND VERY LONG HOURS FOR A LONG TIME. BUT NOW THAT I'M HERE, I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME IMPORTANT THINGS I'VE BEEN DOING LATELY. I'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WORKING ON MY SPEECH -- TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO USE MORE OF AN AMERICAN SPEECH STYLE. I'M USING A LOT MORE PITCH CHANGE NOW. BUT I'M NOT SLIDING UP IN PITCH. I'M USING THE AMERICAN INTONA- TION PATTERN THAT A GUY NAMED STERN CALLS THE JUMP UP AND STEP DOWN PATTERN. IT'S ALSO NECESSARY FOR ME TO REALX THE FRONT OF MY MOUTH AND USE THE MUSCLES IN THE BACK OF MY TONGUE MORE THAN I USED TO. I ALSO STARTEDWORKING ON SOME DIFFICULT PRONUNCIATION. I REALLY HOPE IT'S PAID OFF. WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW DO I SOUND?Course #2LESSON 1: SEPARATING THE HARD & SOFT VOWELS[LANGUAGE NOTE: Second language English speakers form almost any language have at least some trouble separating the hard and soft vowels in each of the following pairs. Speakers from ROMANCE LANGUAGES have particular trouble with the soft forms. Speakers from RUSSIAN and other SLAVIC LANGUAGES and speakers of YIDDISH and HEBREW have more trouble with the hard forms. BUT -- these pairs represent one of the most important pronunciation skills for any second language English speakers.] Listen closely to the instructions in lesson One of the tape. It will explain how to create the differences between the hard and soft sounds in each of four pairs of vowels. Each of the hard sounds has at least some of the characteristics of a diphthong -- (1) there is more rear-tongue movement, (2) there is a second stage or "echo" on the vowel, and (3) there is a slight downward pitch glide. The soft vowel in each pair is short, stays on one pitch, and has little or no movement in the back of the tongue.SECTION #1: HARD E and SOFT I {Counter #_______}L1/S1-A: "The Hard E"Phonetic Symbol : [ i ]COMMON SPELLINGS :"ee" as in TREE, SEEM, EEL"e+consonant+e" as in CONCRETE, SUPREME, SCENE"ea" as in MEAT, PEAS, EAN"y" as in MARY, HAPPILY, ENVYOCCASIONAL SPELLINGS:"ie" as in YIELD, IECES"ei" as in CEILING"i" as in SKI, INTRIGUE, MACHINEEACH, EVEN, SEE, KEY, GREEN, TREEHE, SHE, WE, ME, BEVERY, HAPPY, COUNTRY, SOFTLY, QUICKLYEEL, MEAL, SEAL, DEAL, APPEAL, REAL, WHEEL。