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Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers. Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms-he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful. We now take our English “on paper plates instead of china”. A shame, perhaps, but probably an inevitable one.
37. The word “talking” (Line6, paragraph3) denotes
[A] modesty.
[B] personality.
[C] liveliness.
[D] informality.
[答案] D
[解题思路]
第三段最后一句话为“In both oral and written English, talking is triumphing over speaking, spontaneity over craft”(无论是在口头英语和书面语中,说话胜过了谈话,自然发挥胜过了精雕细琢),此外该段第一句话中提到了the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music(已经宣布了正式演讲、写作、诗歌和经典音乐的灭亡),因此可以推断talking 代表的就是informal及非正式的形式,也就是D选项。
[题目译文]
“talking”(第三段第五行)这个词代表 。
[A] 谦虚
[B] 个性
[C] 生动
[D] 非正式
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