．I remember one of them ________ particular, ...

．I remember one of them ________ particular, who speaks with strong Beijing accent.

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A scientist who can speak English is in closer touch with those of other countries than ______ who doesn’t.

A．that              B．those             C．/                D．one

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A scientist who can speak English is in closer touch with those of other countries than ______ who doesn’t.

A. that     B. those        C. /            D. one

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In the famous musical My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle, the poor daughter of a dustman who speaks with a thick Cockney accent, becomes the unwitting (不知晓的) target for a bet between two phonetics scholars. By the end of the musical, Doolittle is able to pronounce all of her words like a member of the British elite, fooling everyone at an embassy ball about her true origins.

It’s hard to imagine a version of My Fair Lady set in the U.S. because, unlike the British, Americans seem either unwilling or unable to honestly acknowledge their own social class. But a new set of scientific studies conducted by Michael Krauss and his colleagues at Yale University show that Americans find it easy to make distinctions about other people’s social class just by listening to them speak.

In one study, the researchers asked 229 people to listen to 27 different speakers who varied in terms of their age, race, gender and social class. The participants heard each speaker say a total of seven different words. Based on just this short audio, participants were able to correctly identify which speakers were college-educated 55 percent of the time-more than what would be expected by chance. A major limitation of this study, however, was that it used college education as a criterion for social class.

Then in another experiment, 302 participants were asked to either listen to or read transcripts (文本) from 90 seconds of recorded speech in which the speakers talked about themselves without explicitly mentioning anything about their social class. Participants were asked to judge what they thought the social classes of the speakers were by using a 10-rung ascending (上升的) ladder of increasing income, education and occupation. They found that participants who heard the audio recordings were more accurate in judging where the speakers fell in terms of their social status.

To show whether these inferences have real-world consequences, Kraus and his colleagues ran another experiment. They recruited 274 participants, all of whom had past hiring experience, to either listen to the audio or read a transcript of the content. The findings showed that participants were able to accurately judge the social class of the candidates and that this effect was stronger for participants who had heard the audio recordings. In addition, participants judged the higher-class candidates as more competent, a better fit for the job and more likely to be hired.

Taken together, this research suggests that despite our discomfort about the topic, Americans are able to easily detect one another’s social class from small snippets of speech. Moreover, we use this information to discriminate against people who seem to be of a lower social class. This research identifies social class as another potential way that employers may discriminate against candidates, perhaps without even realizing it.

1.The author introduces his topic by______.

A.making a comparison

B.justifying an assumption

C.explaining a phenomenon

D.relating the plot of a musical

2.What do the experiments suggest?

A.Participants tend to make objective judgments.

B.The content rather than the speaking style is reliable.

C.One’s social class can be inferred from how they speak.

D.Education and income are the main criteria for social status.

3.According to the passage, judgments about the way people talk_____.

A.disagree with the facts

B.affect hiring decisions

C.favour competent people

D.hardly provide reference

4.What can be learned from the last paragraph?

A.Americans are slow to judge social classes.

B.People in a low social class lose jobs easily.

C.Social-class discrimination is hard to address.

D.Speech can create social-class discrimination.

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I believe in miracles because I’ve seen so many of them.One day,a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old.“There’s a36  in my upper jaw,”she said.“I told my own dentist it’s nothing,but he 37 I come to see you.”

Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her.He would 38  to add something,but she stopped him.She wanted to tell everything hereslf.I found a large cancer that spread over much of the 39 of her mouth.A careful examination later 40  that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.

During her next appointment,I explained to her the 41  of the problem.She clasped my hand in hers and said,“I know you’re worried about me,but I’m just 42 .”

I thought otherwise.After considerable 43  on my part,and kindness on her part because she wanted to 44  me,she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon.She saw him,but as I expected, 45  treatment.

About six months later she retarned to my office,still energetic and 46 .

“How are you?”I asked.

“I’m just fine,honey,”she responded 47  high spirits.“When can I get started on fixing my dentures(假牙)?”

Surprised to see her at all,I answered 48  ,“Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it.”

I couldn’t believe my eyes.The cancer that had 49  nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness 50 .

I had read of such things happening,but had 51  seen them with my own eyes.That was my first miracle.Since then I’ve seen many others,because they keep getting 52  to see.In fact,miracles are daily events for me now.And people are a miracle, 53  through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to 54  the miracles of one another.

Since my first miracle,I’ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is 55 we choose to find it.

11.A.healthy         B.elegant           C.optimistic    C.humorous

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Generally speaking, the music of one country is quite a lot in ______ with its culture.

A. use               B. common          C. order            D. same

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She brought with her three friends, none of _________ I had ever met before.

A. them　         　　 B. who     　　　　         C. these    　　             D. whom

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She brought with her three friends, none of ______ I had ever met before.

A. them        B. who        C. whom          D. these

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She brought with her three friends，none of ________ I had ever met before.

A．them　　 B．who　 C．whom　　 D．these

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--May I have a talk with one of your sports reporters?　--Sorry, but all of them are out to______the main events of the day.

A. get 　 B. find　 C. cover 　 D. search

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