湖南省长沙市浏阳市联考2023-2024学年高二下学期期中测试英语
检测试卷
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第一部分听力(共两节,满分30分)略
第二部分阅读(共两节,满分50分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
SPECIALENGLISH
TheEnglishlanguageprogramsoftheVoiceofAmerica(VOA)canbedividedintotwotypes
accordingtothespeedofbroadcasting:StandardEnglishandSpecialEnglish.
SpecialEnglishisasimpleandstandardizedEnglishradioprogramarrangedbyVOAforlisteners
whoarebeginningtolearnEnglishinnon-Englishspeakingcountriesaroundtheworld.Itofficially
beganbroadcastinginOctober1959.
S.BfamousAmericanlexicologistS.B．FlexmeridentifiedthreecriteriaforSpecialEnglish,thatis,
whatmakesit“special”:
●Itwritesandbroadcastsinshortandclearsentences;
●Itbroadcastsatarateof90wordsperminute,or2/3ofStandardEnglish;
●ItisaformofAmericanEnglishcomposedmainlyofthe1500basicwords.
programs.Newsshprogramscanbedividedintotwocategories:newsprogramsandfeature
programs.Newsprogram
evening.Featurelishnewsbroadcastsprovidelistenerswithworldwideinformationonpolitics,
economics,militaryaffairs,diplomacy,internationalrelations,religion,weather,andallkindsof
importanteventsandwonders.TheyarebroadcasttoSoutheastAsiafivetimesaday,twiceinthe
morningandthreetimesintheevening.FeatureProgram
Fromtheperspectiveoftime,SpecialEnglishfeatureprogramscanbedividedintotwocategories:
oneiseveryfiveminutes,andtheotheriseveryfifteenminutes.Thelatterconsistsofseven
differentsub-features,whicharerepeatedfourtimesadayonaweeklycycle,butthetwofeatures
onSundayandSaturdayarebroadcastonlythreetimesanight,each