2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解寒假训练：（14）_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解寒假训练：（14）

　　Door

　　The point in the chart refers to one person.

　　8. The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.

　　A. judge

　　B. ignore

　　C. put up with

　　D. make the best of

　　参考答案5—8 BDCA

　　Once I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit alarmed, for it was laid out as a studio. In front of each easy chair there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape-recorder in the middle of the floor. I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty. Then we could relax and have a drink.

　　I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn seriously counted from one to twenty in their best accent. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks, and for the rest of the evening there was general cheerful conversation?interrupted only by the fact that I had to take a telephone call in another room, which unfortunately lasted some time.

　　Or at least that was how it would appear. For, of course, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one, which was turning happily away in the kitchen. The participants, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my lengthy absence meant that I was able to obtain as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find.