2019学年高二英语外研版必修五练习：Module 1《British and American English》Ⅲ(含答案)

课时训练Ⅲ

基础夯实

Ⅰ.单词拼写

1.Her (与众不同的) character makes it difficult for her to communicate with other

(批评) and made fun of him.

联合) of the north and the south increased the power of the nation.

s difficult for a foreigner to speak s Chinese.

.When will the committee p their report?

.Webster wrote a dictionary in order to s the spelling of English words.

at getting a high position in the company failed.

(声明) by either government.

(参考) book.

Ⅱ.完成句子

1.他真愚蠢,在那次重要的考试中查看笔记,结果他受到了惩罚。

It was silly of him his notes during that important test,and as a result,he got

2.她试着做这顿饭。

3.我总是把他当作书呆子。

a bookworm.

4.总的说来,我赞成这个提议。

’m the proposal.

5.那项新法律实施起来对我们不利。

’t operate.

6.因为你的协助我们成功了。

7.他的老板要求他参加月会。

the monthly meeting.

Ⅲ.单句语法填空

and we’ll see who won.

favour of it.

3.My demand is that the information (refer)to in my report be e-mailed to Mr.Brown

(refer)to the matter.

(climb)the steepest part of the mountain,but failed.

your timely help that we accomplished the task on time.

our friends.

水平提升

Ⅳ.阅读理解

(2019·广东高考,D)

It was once common to regard Britain as a society with class distinction.Each class had unique characteristics.

In recent years, many writers have begun to speak of the ‘decline of class’ and ‘classless society’ in Britain.And in modern day consumer society everyone is considered to be middle class.

But pronouncing the death of class is too early.A recent wide-ranging study of public opinion found 90 percent of people still placing themselves in a particular class;73 percent agreed that class was still a vital part of British society;and 52 percent thought there were still sharp class differences.Thus,class may not be culturally and politically obvious,yet it remains an important part of British society.Britain seems to have a love of stratification.

One unchanging aspect of a British person’s class position is accent.The words a person speaks tell her or his class.A study of British accents during the 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice.Most people said this accent sounded ‘educated’ and ‘soft’.The accents placed at the bottom in this study,on the other hand,were regional(地区的)city accents.These accents were seen as ‘common’and ‘ugly’.However,a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC English as the least.This suggests that British attitudes towards accent have deep roots and are based on class prejudice.

In recent years,however,young upper middle-class people in London,have begun to adopt some regional accents,in order to hide their class origins.This is an indication of class becoming