With the rapid progress of technology, the English language is changing fast. All the people have to face a choice: either ignore the development of the language and spend the rest of our lives wishing Shakespeare were alive, or keep pace with the Internet age, weling the new English which someone has once called Weblish. “you can’t avoid it for the simple reason that wherever a new language es along, it surely impacts (影响) the language as a whole,” says Dr David Crystal, a famous language professor at the University of Wales.
However, there is great trouble with keeping up with the new English because there are so many new words and the old ones no longer mean what we thought they did. In the past if someone said they didn’t have “Windows”, you would have to suppose they lived in a cave without windows. But now, it is probably because they use a Mac, which is a puter. Spam, which once meant a not-so-good-kind of canned meat, now stands for unwanted “junk (垃圾)” email.
Spelling is changing too. Weblish loves to see nouns happily bee verbs ( for example, “Please bookmark this site”), and verbs bee nouns (“Send me the download”).Verbs and prepositions are regularly thrown together to bee new nouns or adjectives(for example, dial-up, logon, print-out, pull-down, upload), while others are created from a simple pairing of nouns: cyberspace, ethernet, Internet, hyperlink, metatag and netspeak.
【小题1】 We can infer from the first paragraph that .A．English has pletely bee WeblishB．some people wish Shakespeare were still aliveC．people may have different attitudes towards WeblishD．people who know English have to learn a new language【小题2】 What is the main idea of the second paragraph?A．Now English has many new words.B．English words have changed a lot.C．Old English words are no longer used at all.D．People have difficulty in understanding some new words related to puters and the Internet.【小题3】 The best title for this passage would be “ ”.A．Technology and EnglishB．Keep Up with the Latest WeblishC．Don’t Forget EnglishD．The Advantage and Disadvantages of WeblishC
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(答案→)C
解析：本文叙述了随着科学技术的发展，人们使用网络的机会越多，为了一些使用的方面产生了一些新的网络语言，文中给出了网络语言产生的方法。为了适应现在的社会我们要跟上时代的步伐，就要了解网络语言。
【小题1】推理判断题。根据either ignore the development of the language and spend the rest of our lives wishing Shakespeare were alive, or keep pace with the Internet age, weling the new English which someone has once called Weblish. 可以推出有些人对于网络语言有些不同的意见，故选C。
【小题2】段落大意题。根据there is great trouble with keeping up with the new English because there are so many new words and the old ones no longer mean what we thought they did. 这是中心句，可知应选D。
【小题3】标题归纳题。综观全文可知本文主要的话题是网络语言，故选B。