But besides disappointing foreign visitors, not speaking in an RP accent may mean a British person is judged, or even treated differently, in their everyday life. In a 2015 study by The University of South Wales, UK, videos of people reading a passage in three different UK accents were shown to a second group of people. The group then graded how intelligent they thought the readers sounded. The
lowest-graded accent was Brummie, native to people from Birmingham, a city whose accent is considered working class. “Specific regional accents are often thought of as low class and belonging to groups without fame,” Lance Workman, leader of the study, told The Telegraph. “It is clear that many of those with regional accents are still hitting a glass ceiling.”
But English-learners who want to sound more British shouldn’t go straight for RP, as many do. In fact, doing the opposite may even give you an advantage. Kong Seong-jae, 25, better known as “Korean Billy”, is an Internet celebrity from Seoul. After studying in the UK, he picked up several regional
accents. He’s now famous for his online videos, where he shows off the various accents he’s learned. “British people usually get really excited when I use some of their local dialect words, and they become much more friendly. I think it makes a bit of connection between local people and foreigners to speak in their local accent,” he said.
So if you’re working on perfecting your British accent, try to speak like someone from Liverpool, Glasgow or Birmingham. You may not sound like Harry Potter, but you are likely to make more friends.
58. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?
A. Intelligent British people speak the Queen’s English. B. Foreigners expect to hear the Queen’s English in the UK.
C. Harry Potter and his friends speak with different accents in the movie. D. Received Pronunciation is more widely used than regional UK accents. 59. According to the study by the University of South Wales, UK, A. people tend to associate accents with social class B. people in Birmingham belong to working class C. Brummie is the most used regional accent in the UK
D. people’s intelligence can be graded by the way they read a passage 60. What does the underlined phrase “hitting a glass ceiling” probably mean?
A. Escaping failures. C. Meeting problems.
B. Gaining successes. D. Overcoming difficulties.
. .
61. The writer uses the example of Kong Seong-jae in order to show A. the importance of connecting with people B. the benefits of learning regional UK accents C. the right way to judge people by their accents D. the significance of learning the English language
D
Mark’s brother, Jamie, rang Mrs. Grady’s doorbell. “You know her better than I do, Mark. You do the talking.”
“Hi, Mrs. Grady,” said Mark when their neighbor opened her door. “Would you like us to shovel
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(铲雪) your sidewalk and driveway?”
Shoveling was Jamie’s idea, a way to earn enough money for the new Ocean Kingdom video game
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that came out the next day.
Mrs. Grady touched her hand to her heart. “That would be wonderful, boys. I think the job is getting to be too much for me.”
“It will cost 10 dollars,” Jamie said. “If that’s OK,” Mark added.
“Oh dear.” Mrs. Grady sounded disappointed. “I haven’t been able to get to the bank. I can offer homemade cookies, but I realize that’s not what you had in mind.”
Mark was going to say that Mrs. Grady could pay them another time, but Jamie cut him off. “We’ll come back later.” window, watching them.
At the same time, Mark was confused. She didn’t look like the person who’d come to his rescue last summer when Mr. Dunn’s collie (牧羊犬), Goldie, escaped from her backyard.
between the wooden fence and the cedar hedge.
③ Then Mrs. Grady’s front door had flown open. Mrs. Grady must have seen him
from across the street. “Hold on, Mark. I’m coming!” Her apron had flapped in the wind like a banner as she strode across the street holding a kitchen broom. “Goldie!” she’d called. As soon as Goldie had turned her head, Mrs. Grady had slipped between Mark and the dog. She wasn’t much taller than Mark,
but she’d stood firm as a rock in front of him as she flung her arm out toward Mr. Dunn’s house. “Goldie, go home!” Then she’d swept her broom to hurry the dog along. “Get!” Goldie had obeyed. Thank you.”
Mrs. Grady had laughed. “It was nothing. Good neighbors watch out for each other, don’t they?” And now Mrs. Grady needed Mark as much as he’d needed her last summer. He smiled and waved at Mrs. Grady, then thrust his shovel deep into the snow. He lifted snow over his shoulder.
“Hey!” Jamie shouted. “What are you doing?”
Mark couldn’t explain about Goldie and watching out for neighbors. “I like Mrs. Grady’s cookies,” he said and scooped up another shovelful.
“It’ll take you all day,” his brother sighed. “We’ll never get that game.” Mark shrugged and kept digging.
He heard Jamie’s annoyed sigh and then, surprisingly, the bite of Jamie’s shovel against the snow. Mark grinned. Jamie had known all along it was the right thing to do.
“Once the other neighbors see the good job we’ve done, they’ll line up to hire us,” said Jamie. “We’ll make money soon enough.” As usual, he had it all worked out. 62. Mrs. Grady sounded disappointed mostly because A. She couldn’t afford to pay Mark and Jamie B. Mark and Jamie wanted to get paid for shoveling C. She realized Mark and Jamie disliked her cookies
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①
As they struggled through the snow out of Mrs. Grady’s driveway, Mrs. Grady stood at her
②Goldie had just
wanted to play, but Mark didn’t feel comfortable around big dogs. And Goldie had boxed him in
_④ When Mark’s father had appeared at their side, he’d said to Mrs. Grady, “That was very brave!
.
D. Mark and Jamie wanted the money for a video game
63. Which blank is the sentence “Mark had tried to call for his dad, but his tongue seemed
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