Task 3
Directions: The following is a Discussion about People’s Attitude Towards the Change of Languages. After reading it, you are required to fill the blanks below it (No. 46 through No. 50). You should write your answers briefly in no more than 3 words on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.
Languages are changing all the time, and the English language is no exception. Some people welcome change as healthy; other people regard it as inevitable, but do not welcome it; still other people welcome certain changes but not all’; and still other people regard all changes as bad.
Professor Randolph Quirk pointed out: "Some people imagine that there is one linguistic form on any given occasion, and that language is invariant. They imagine that the form they may have learnt in school is somehow correct and that any difference from it is only private and personal and certainly wrong. Now, for many years, we have been trying to
Passage One
Sharon Keating was worried about her kids when she got a divorce. Her daughter, says, "I was feeling.., like down and sad and even though I didn’t really show it."
Judith Wallerstein says problems from divorce can stay for many years. They can show up when the kids are adults. As adults the kids have trouble.
Wallerstein studied 93 children over a generation. The results can only be found in her book.
She says children of divorce are more likely to have problems with drugs. They are far more likely to seek therapy. About 40-percent of them do not marry. Their marriages fail at nearly twice the usual rate. It is hard for them to trust. They are afraid of failing.
Critics say Wallerstein had too few children in her study. Other things may be the cause of the kid’s problems. The study does not compare kids from divorced families with kids from "healthy" families.
Wallerstein’s fa
A. have their marriages fail as often as others
B. stay married two times as long
C. are two times as likely to have their marriage fail
D. are usually happy
Many will know that the word "muscle" comes from the Latin for "mouse" (rippling under the skin, so to speak ). But what about "chagrin", derived from the Turkish for roughened leather, or scaly sharkskin. Or "lens" which comes from the Latin "lentil" or "window" meaning "eye of wind" in old Norse Looked at closely, the language comes apart in images, like those strange paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo where heads are made of fruit and vegetables.
Not that Henry Hitchings’s book is about verbal surrealism. That is an extra pleasure in a book which is really about the way the English language has roamed the world helping itself liberally to words, absorbing them, forgetting where they came from, and moving on with an ever-growing load of exotics, crossbreeds and subtly shaded near-synonyms. It is also about migrations within the language’s own borders, about upward and downward mobility, abou
A. An institute that aims at protecting the purity of language
B. An institute established by France to promote French education in the world
C. An institute of France that have all the renowned scholars in France
D. An institute of higher education in France, especially famous for its authentic language education
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