變化中的英語中考試題

1、變化中的英語中考試題Paper One Listening Test (20 points)Information for examineesThere are two parts in this test and you will hear each part twice.There will be a pause before each part to allow you to look through the questions and another pause at the end of each part for you to check your answers.Write yo

2、ur answers in the spaces indicated on the question paper and transfer them to the Answer Sheet at the end of listening test. You will have 10 minutes at the end of listening test to transfer your answers to the Answer SheetPart 1 A ConversationYou will hear the conversation twice.You are going to li

3、sten to a conversation between two friends. The caller, Julie, is a journalist, and she works for an English language magazine in Beijing. She rings Simon from her office to ask for information. The questions are based on the conversation. Your answers should be brief and to the point.You have one m

4、inute to look at the questions before listening.1. How many official languages are there in Singapore at the present day? What are they? 2. When were these declared to be the official languages? 3. How many languages does an average Singaporean speak? 4. Did Julie know about the official languages b

5、efore she called Simon? 5. After Independence, the government declared Malay as the “national language” because it was planning a merge with Malaya. Now Singapore is no longer a member of the Federation of Malaysia, is Malay still Singapores national language? 6. Do most Singaporeans speak English?

6、7. Did the government of Singapore stop the use of English after Independence? 8. Is Julie certain she can get Simon on the phone? 9. When Julie asks Simon to hold for a moment, what does she want to do?10. Is Julies article about the rule of the British in Singapore before Independence?Part 2 A Mon

7、ologueYou will hear the monologue twice.A Questions (11-14): Spot dictation- Listen for specific information. In this section, you are going to listen to the first part of the speech. You need to write 1-3 words in each of the given spaces.You have ONE minute to look at the task before listening.Eng

8、lish has never been the only language in use over the British Isles, and certainly it is not now! Welsh is still used (11) . Some Welsh people still speak it as their mother tongue, and it is widely taught in Welsh schools. Some people in Scotland and in Ireland still use a language that is (12) . I

9、t is called Gaelic. These languages have a long history in these islands-longer than the history of English. In addition, people from overseas have (13) in England quite recently during this century. In some industrial cities, though not generally in Britain, you find groups of people who speak Poli

10、sh, and other groups speaking the languages of the Indian subcontinent. A survey of North London schools in the early 1980s found that nearly a third of the children spoke a language (14) at home.B Questions(15-20)You are now going to listen to the second part of the speech and your task is to compl

11、ete the following outline based on what you hear on the tape.You have ONE minute to look at the task.Standard English:15. It is in use .16. It means . Spoken English:17. It sounds very different .18. We can guess the part of the country where he or she comes from and how well when we hear the person

12、 speak.International users of English:19. You will find some speakers from the North or the West of England .20. Your confidence in your ability to use the language may be badly shaken unless .This is the end of listening test. You now have 10 minutes to check your answers and transfer them to the A

13、nswer Sheet.Paper Two Knowledge Test (20 points)Choose the best answer to what you have learned in this course.21. All languages as time passes.A. decay B. change C. improve D. expand22. Most reference books give the number of the languages of the world as .A. between 4,000 and 5,000 B. between 2,00

14、0 and 3,000 C. between 4,00 and 5,00 D. between2,00 and 3,0023. Some languages have no speakers.A. good B. bad C. living D. dead24. Your own individual language is called .A. idiot B. ideograph C. idiolect D. ideology25. We learn our mother tongue-we do not it.A. Acquire B. inherit C. study D. absor

15、b26. You and I dont speak as our parents did.A. Differently B. similarly C. exactly D. precisely27. Over a long period-say a hundred years-it is a different story! New words come into use. Old A. words are forgotten. People pronounce words in different ways. Even changes.A. Language B. grammar C. vo

16、cabulary D. pronunciation28. When you look at the English that was written six hundred years ago, you are looking at something .A. really strange B. completely unrecognizable C. very familiar D. fairly familiar29. Latin lives in modern European languages! In French, in Spanish, and certainly in .A.

17、England B. English C. Britain D. British30. English-speaking newcomers to some places need only days or weeks before they can understand the local English quite well. They may need much longer before they can speak as the local people do.A. in the same way B. as much C. as little D. in the same plac

18、e31. We should use “English” as a countable noun that can be _ .A. corrected B. single C. plural D. the name of a language32. But native speakers dont always _ .A. agree with non-native speakers B. agree that non-native speakers dont agree C. agree that native speakers dont always agree with non-nat

19、ive speakers D. agree33. There is no _ authority for the use of English.A. single B. plural C. recognized D. international34. Changes in English are not _.A. even and steady B. gradual C. slow D. fast35. Most native speakers can understand _ dialects.A. no B. few C. several D. about a dozen of 36.Al

20、l the native speakers of English have difficulty_ .A. with at least some dialects of EnglishB. with all dialects of EnglishC. with their own dialects D. with at least some speakers of their own dialects 37.Change is uneven: vocabulary changes much more rapidly than .A. words B. word structure C. sen

21、tences D. pronunciation and grammar38.When a teacher is correcting a students mistakes, he is doing .A. prescriptive teaching B. productive teaching C. descriptive teaching D. corrective teaching39. When a teacher asks a student to practice English by speaking or writing, that is _ .A. prescriptive

22、teaching B. productive teaching C. descriptive teaching D. corrective teaching40. Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and German, are of course the languages of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Germany respectively. All of these countries, like Britain, were once colonial and imperial powers. Th

23、e result is that their languages are to some extent _ .A. dialects B. accents C. national languages D. international languagesPaper Three Reading Test (20 points)Passage 1Read the following passage, and decide on the basis of the content of the text whether the statements are True(T), False(F) or No

24、t Mentioned(N). Write your answers against the numbers on your Answer Sheet.People may become bilingual either by acquiring two languages at the same time in childhood or by learning a second language sometime after acquiring their first language. Many bilingual people grow up speaking two languages

25、. Often in America such people are the children of immigrants; these children grow up speaking their parents native language in their childhood home while speaking English at school. Many bilinguals, however, are not immigrants; it is not uncommon for people born in the U.S. to speak English at scho

26、ol or work and another language at home. Children can also become bilingual if their parents speak more than one language to them, or if some other significant person in their life (such as a grandparent or caretaker) speaks to them consistently in another language. Sometimes a child will grow up in

27、 a household in which each parent speaks a different language; in that case, the child may learn to speak to each parent in that parents language. In short, a young child who is regularly exposed to two languages from an early age will most likely become a fluent native speaker of both languages. Th

28、e exposure must involve interaction; a child growing up in an English-speaking household who is exposed to Spanish only through Spanish-language television wont become a Spanish-English bilingual, but a child who is regularly spoken to in both English and Spanish will. It is also possible to learn a

29、 second language sometime after early childhood, but the older you get, the harder it is to learn to speak a new language as well as a native speaker. Many linguists believe there is a critical period (lasting roughly from birth until puberty) during which a child can easily acquire any language tha

30、t he or she is regularly exposed to. Under this view, the structure of the brain changes at puberty, and after that it becomes harder to learn a new language. This means that it is much easier to learn a second language during childhood than as an adult. In some countries, nearly everybody is biling

31、ual or multilingual. In parts of India, for example, a small child usually knows several languages. In many European countries, children are encouraged to learn a second language - typically English. In fact, the U.S. is quite unusual among the countries of the world in that many of its citizens spe

32、ak only English, and they are rarely encouraged to become fluent in any other language. 41. The passage is about how people become bilingual.42. A bilingual is a person who acquires two languages at the same time in his or her childhood.43. Children can become bilingual if they are consistently spok

33、en to in two languages.44 Children whose parents are immigrants are likely to be bilingual.45. A child will speak to each parent in that parents language if each of his parent speaks a different language.46. The older you get, the harder it is to learn to speak a new language as well as a native spe

34、aker47. An Englishman who is exposed to Chinese-language television will become Chinese-English bilingual.48. There is a critical period (lasting roughly from birth until puberty) during which a child finds it hard to acquire a language that he or she is regularly exposed to.49. In many European cou

35、ntries, children are encouraged to learn only English as a second language because it is a global language.50. In America, a child whose parents are migrants from China can speak both English and Chinese fluently.Passage 2Read the following passage and answer the questions followed.When did Standard

36、 English start? Standard English is used now internationally, but first it spread in England and the United Kingdom generally. Lets look briefly at what happened. You remember that the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, who brought English to England were not the first invaders, nor were they the las

37、t. In the 11th century Norman French invaders came. They were successful in their conquest, and for the next two centuries, the country was ruled by kings and nobles who were of Norman-French descent. Norman-French was their language, so it was the language of military affairs, of government, of law

38、, of the court, and so of the fashionable and well-off people. Learned people used Latin, the language of the church, for serious purposes like study and writing. English-all the varieties of English-was the language of ordinary people, neither rich nor well educated. It is extraordinary that by the

39、 time books came to be printed in London, it seemed natural and proper to print books in English. We cant offer anything like a complete explanation of how this happened, but there are two things we know about which certainly helped. One has to do with education. We know that in the late 1370s there

40、 was a change in the way boys were taught Latin. Until then they had to translate Latin into French. For the first time they were allowed to translate Latin into English. They got on much faster with Latin. Then there was another thing. A very great and very important writer, named Geoffrey Chaucer,

41、 chose to write in English. He never saw his book in print-he died in 1400-but it was well liked by many people who heard his stories in verse read aloud. You see how important and influential education and literature can be.Questions:51. What is the best topic of this passage? A. When Standard Engl

42、ish Started B. The Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes C. Norman-French Successful ConquestD. Geoffrey Chaucers Contribution to Standard English52. How is Standard English used nowadays?53. Who brought English language to England?54. What was the language of power from 11th century to 13th century, Lat

43、in, English or Norman-French?55. What was the language used by ordinary people from 11th century to 13th century?56. What did learned people use Latin for?57. What was the change taking place in the way boys were taught Latin?58. What did the boys benefit from that change?59. What was the language used in writing by Geoffrey