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1、阅读理解主旨大意题专练(二)(题干加黑的为主旨大意题)A(2016·厦门市高中毕业班质量检查)Thesedays,youngpeopleinsomeEnglishspeakingcountriesarespeakingastrangelanguage,especiallywhencommunicatingonsocialmedia.LookatthesewordschosenbyTheWashingtonPost：“DavidBowiedyingistotestradge”and“WhenCookiehuggedJamalitmademetotesemosh.”Ort
2、hissentence：“BAE,letmeknowifyoustayintonight.”Whatonearthdotheymean?Well,“totes”isashortformof“totally”.Similarly,“tradge”means“tragic”and“emosh”means“emotional”.Itseemsthat,formillennials(千禧一代),typinginthisformisnotonlytimesavingbutfashionable.Asyoucansee,manymillennialslangs(俚语)arefor
3、medbysocalled“totesing”—thesystematicabbreviation(缩写)ofwords.Thetrendmighthavestartedwith“totally”becoming“totes”，butitnowhasspreadtomanyotherEnglishwords.Theoriginsofothermillennialslangsaremorecomplexthan“totesing”.“Bae”，forexample,hasbeenwidelyusedbyAfricanAmericansforyears.Itcanbean
4、expressionofclosenesswithone'sromanticpartneror,like“sweetheart”，forsomeonewithoutromanticconnection.AfterpopsingerPharrellusedthewordinhiswork,“bae”becamemainstream.SomepeoplemightthinkmillennialslangslowerthevalueoftheEnglishlanguage,butMelbourneUniversitylinguist(语言学家)RoseyBillington
5、doesn'tagree.Shesayswhenpeopleareabletousealanguageinacreativeway,theyshowthattheyknowthelanguageruleswellenoughtousewordsdifferently.Twootherlinguists,LaurenSpradlinandTaylorJones,sharethesameview.Thetwoanalysedhundredsofexamplesoftotesspeakanddiscoveredtotesinghascomplexroots.Itisn'ts
6、implyanadultversionofbabytalk,noracleverwaytominimizeyourwordcount.Rather,itisahighlyorganizedsystemthatreliesonaspeaker'smasteryofEnglishpronunciation.Itisaboutsounds,followssoundsystemofEnglishandhasstrictrules.1．Whydoyoungpeoplelikeusingeslangs?A．Theyaretimeconsuming.B．Theyareinfashi
7、on.C．Theyarecomplex.D．Theyareinorder.2．What'stheauthor'spurposeofmentioning“Bae”inParagraph5?A．Tosupportthattotesingisnobabytalk.B．Toanalysetheusageofmillennialslangs.C．Toinformpeoplehowitbecamemainstream.D．Toexplainthecomplexoriginsofmillennialslangs.3．WhichstatementmayRoseyBi
