标准听力(四)—标准听力(六)(14)

中提到，“Grandmother made this?” I said, surprised，其中的this指的前面提到的被子，It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together: irregular designs，childish pictures，a crooked line on the right，可见这条被子特别奇怪，故答案为[A]。
【点睛】[A]中的strange是对短文中irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right的归纳概括。


32. What is mainly talked about in the passage?
【解析】选[C]。选项均为概括性强的名词短语表明，本题可能考查短文的主题或主旨。短文通过母亲的被子引出姥姥的被子，讲述这条被子的制作等，并说明“爱的传递”是这条被子的意义所在，故答案为[C]。
【点睛】短文主旨要根据短文内容进行总结。
Passage Three
【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的She，a less upper-class accent，Her speeches， accents and social classes表明，短文与口音和社会地位的关系有关。

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 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 ‘the 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 p.m. in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch.Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. Why were the Queen’s broadcasts chosen for the study?
【解析】选[D]。短文一开始提到一项针对女王口音的变迁的研究，接着说出原因：想通过过去半个世纪的记录来发现口音变化是否会在一个人身上发生，而除了女王，别人都没有50年的