2018年上海市松江区中考一模(即期末)英语试题及答案(专题)

count from one to twenty, men we could relax and have a drink.

I turned on the recorder and each in turn counted from one to twenty in their best accents. When it was over, I turned the recorder off and brought round the drinks. The rest of the evening was spent in complete relaxation. I talked and joked with them freely by leaving them only for a telephone call which lasted some time.

Or at least that is how it would appear. You know, of course, the microphones were not connected to the recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one in the bedroom. My friends, having seen the recorder before them turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality (质量). It meant that I was able to get a piece of natural talk.

I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what had happened to them after the recording was over, and asked them whether it should be destroyed. None of them wanted to – but for some years after that, it always seemed that when it came to buying drinks, I paid for them Linguistic research can be a very expensive business.

69. The underlined word \means \

A) 语言学习者 B) 语言研究者 C) 语言模仿者 D) 语言开发者

70. The writer asked his friends to count from one to twenty because he wanted to_____.

A) check if his recorder was working B) discover who had the best sound quality

C) let them think that was all he wanted to record D) record how they pronounced numbers in their regional accents

71. The writer left the room in the middle of the evening because_____.

A) he had to make a phone call B) the phone rang in the bedroom

C) he liked talking with them on the phone D) he let the others talk freely without him

72. The recording which the writer was able to make was_____. A) natural. B) controlled. C)

unclear. D) nervous.

73. When the writer told his friends what he had done, they______.

A) wanted him to destroy the recordings B) didn't seem to mind much

C) seemed to have no response D) made him buy them more drinks

74. From this passage, we know the writer recorded their talk_____.

A) on the recorder in the middle of the floor. B) by using hidden microphones.

C) on the recorder in another room. D) in the sitting-room.

B. Choose the words or expressions to complete the passage. (选择最恰当的单词完成短文) (12分)

We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed the girls nicely for the party and told them that their job was to join Mum in answering

the __75 __ when the bell rang. Mum would also introduce them to the guests and then they would take the guests' coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom. The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how __76__ we were to have such good kids. Each of the guests made a particular focus on Kelly, the younger one, __77__ her dress, her hair and her smile. They said she was a remarkable girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age.

I think to myself that we adults usually make a big \do\over the younger one because She's the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intention (意图).

But we __78__ think of how it might affect the elder child. I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she wasn't behaving well. I was about to serve dinner when I __79__ that she had been disappearing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom, crying. I said, \

She turned to me with a sad expression and said, \why don't people like me the way they like my sister? Is it __80__ I'm not pretty? Is that why they don't say nice things about me as much?\