A．take revenge on her former friend

B．comfort her former friend

C．feel more independent and confident

D．continue friendship with her former friend 28．What does the last paragraph seem to suggest? A．Unhappy experiences are easy to forget.

B．eeping a diary helps correct oneself. C．SJ will get over her problem soon.

D．One shouldn’t forget the past experiences.

C

The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts had found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.

Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.

He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”

“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘citay ’ and ‘dutay’ , rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’ and ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”

The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch.

The results were published in the Journal of Phonetics.

29. The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.

A. she has been Queen for many years. B. she has a less upper-class accent now. C. her speeches are familiar to many people. D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years.

30. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?

A. “dutay” B. “citee” C. “hame” D. “lorst” 31. We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on _________.

A. speech sounds B. Christmas customs C. TV broadcasting D. personal messages 32. What is the text mainly about?

A. The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.

B. The relationship between accents and social classes. C. The changes in a person’s accent.

D. The recent development of the English language.

D

Less than one year after France imposed a nationwide ban on smoking in most public places, it will, from Jan. 1, 2009, extend the ban to bars, restaurants, hotels, nightclubs—and the most cherished of all cafés.

Ireland and Italy show that countries with long-standing smoking traditions may introduce bans fairly smoothly, as they did in 2004 and 2005.

In Germany, where regulations vary locally, Berlin will join France on Jan 1. But fierce critics of the new law in France say it all but destroys the café's basic function to serve as the socio-economic glue of society.

Cécile Perez, owner of La Fronde, a typical Parisian neighborhood café, said “In the morning, street cleaners in bright green uniforms sip coffee next to well-dressed businessmen; at lunch hour, working-class types rub shoulders with those of the latest fashion at the bar, while couples of all ages rub noses over salads; during the after-work rush, there is a steady soundtrack of clinking glasses combined with conversation; the constant, no matter what time of day, is the smoke that drifts through the air in curls and clouds, seemingly unnoticed.”

“Our motto in France is liberty, equality, fraternity,” Olivier Seconda, a regular at the café, said. “The café is the place that represents that. You’re free to smoke, everyone pays the same price for a beer and different kinds of people talk with one another. This new law goes against that.”

Seconda expects the ban to be felt even more strongly in small villages far from Paris, where the café is often the only means of social activity. “People already miss the space that allows people of all walks of life to share something—even if it is sometimes no more than a few words and the smoke floating between them.”

33．Cécile Perez mentions the curls and clouds of smoke drifting through the air to ______.

A．describe a friendly atmosphere C．support the ban on smoking

B．show the beauty of his own café D．remind us of something unnoticed

34．Olivier Seconda implies that ______.

A．the café provides people with enough liberty, equality, and fraternity B．people, regardless of their social classes, enjoy equal rights in a café C．the new ban on café smoking should be put in effect only in villages D．people would not find fun in a café without smoking a cigarette 35．The passage is written to _______.

A．show the writer’s personal opinion against a new law B．provide information for law-makers to pass a new law C．tell why some people are unhappy about smoking ban in cafés D．compare attitudes to a law, held by people from different countries

第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。（答题卡上E涂AB；F涂AC； G涂AD)

How to Study Better

If you want to study better, you should pay attention to learning methods, study skills and study habits. Developing them can help you learn better.

eep your study area tidy and organized. Papers, books, magazines, or pictures all over your work area may distract you from the work you have to do. 36 If there are too many icons on your desktop, it is difficult for you to find what you need immediately.

Maintain a quiet work area for yourself. Make sure your work area is free of distractions. There are too many distractions at home, such as a phone, music, TV, friends, or family members. Proper study space can usually be found in the public library, school library, or your bedroom. 37

38 While learning, you need write, calculate and look up something. So it is very important and necessary to have all the necessary materials and tools that you need with you. In this way, you needn’t be busy borrowing them.

39 In addition to reading your textbook, it is helpful to read or view materials from other sources, such as newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and television programs. You can understand what you will learn in class better.

Never forget to take notes carefully in class. Taking notes carefully can help to grasp the key parts. 40 We can say that it is really a successful way to study.

A. A quiet place can help to improve study efficiency. B. You should know how to schedule your study time. C. The same is your computer desktop.

D. Try hard to learn knowledge as much as possible. E. It is convenient to review them later.

F. Having necessary materials is very beneficial to study. G. Get ready for class by reading extra materials ahead of time.

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B, C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to 41 in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she 42 a big bald（秃顶的）man running through the parking lot. Before she came to 43 what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window, “Get out!”

Neilson 44 . Pulling open her door, the man seized her 45 the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed, 46 her purse and the keys.

Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a 47 , heard the screams and began running. When they 48 Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was 49 searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker 50 back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no 51 for the two athletic men.

Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to 52 the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes—used to tie up newspapers.

With his arms 53 tight behind him, the prisoner looked up and said 54 , “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves—you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They 55 him and waited for the police.

Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the 56 carjacker（劫车者）and suspected murderer, whose 57 —but with a full head of hair—had been recently printed in their own newspaper.

Neilson considers herself lucky 58 she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a 59 ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she said, “many people would 60 have done what they did, and that’s the real truth.” 41. A. bring 42. A. recognized

43. A. realize 44. A. escaped 45. A. by

46. A. burying 47. A. trip 48. A. started 49. A. carefully 50. A. fought 51. A. match 52. A. remind 53. A. rolled 54. A. angrily 55. A. caught 56. A. ordinary 57. A. picture 58. A. and

59. A. ridiculous 60. A. sometimes

B. let

B. watched

B. understand B. struggled B. around B. forgetting B. visit B. stopped B. madly B. turned B. target B. phone B. folded

B. kindly B. thanked B. professional

B. background B. but B. similar B. never

C. gather

C. noticed

C. imagine

C. refused C. with C. offering

C. break C. entered

C. disappointedly C. jumped

C. equal

C. invite C. bent

C. coldly

C. comforted C. honest

C. character

C. though

C. strange

C. often

D. send D. met

D. conclude D. obeyed D. on D. grabbing D. holiday D. reached D. patiently D. shouted

D. companion D. beg D. tied

D. warmly

D. ignored D. outstanding D. story D. when D. different

D. forever