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挑战自己,练练速度吧!
UNIT4学业质量评估卷
Tamara Jones works for the English Language Center at Howard Community Col-
lege in Maryland.English learners,Jones notes,often think that they can be easily un-
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derstood if they pronounce sounds correctly.
However,speaking the individual sound,such as -er or th-,is only one element of pronunci-
第一部分阅读(共两节,满分50分)
ation.Other parts of pronunciation include rhythm,intonation,and word emphasis.Together,
第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
they form what we call the music of English.English learners can become more familiar with it
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
by mirroring the up and down movement of a speaker's voice.
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Jones thinks English is a language that does not always use grammar to show
I think a close friend is someone you get on well with,who helps you when you have prob-
meaning.Speakers should use pitch humming(音调哼唱)to give sentences different
lems,who gives you advice,and who always has time for you.I didn't use to have many close
meanings.Pitch humming means listening to an English speaker and then repeating the
friends when I was at school because I was very shy,but now I have several.They are all
patterns that you hear them make.You do not even need to understand all of the words
women.I think it's difficult to have a close friend of the opposite sex().
they are saying,just copy the pitch by humming along with the speaker.
-Marie
Grammatically,two sentences can be identical,but the meaning is completely dif-
I think a close friend is someone who you've known for a long time,and who you still get
ferent.Consider this example:
on with.They have similar hobbies to you so you can do things together.I've got three close
Example 1
friends who I was at middle school with and we often go out together (without our parents of
Person 1:How was breakfast?
course).We often go camping,play football,or walk outside in the open air.
Person 2:The coffee was good.
-David
In the example,the second person makes a statement about the