[单项选择]Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Texting has long been bemoaned (哀叹）as the downfall of the written word,””penmanship for illiter,”as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn′t writing at all. It′s a “spoken” language that is getting richer and more complex by the year. First,some historical perspective. Writing was only invented 5,500 years ago. whereas Ianguage probably traces back at least 80.000 years. Thus talking came first; writing is just a craft that came along later. As such, the first writing was based on the way people talk，with short sentences. However, while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started cratting long-winded sentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Per trsians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which th
A. the difTerencc between writing and talking
B. how difTercntly words are used in tcxting
C. why people use the words the way they do
D. the gradual change of word meaning