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Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their eiders and it i
Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their eiders and it i
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Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their eiders and it is in their speech, as it always was, that most of the verbal changes originate. But listening critically to their talk I hear hardly any new words. It is all a matter of using old words in a new way and then copying each other, for much as they wish to speak differently from their parents, they want even more to speak like people of their own age. A new usage once took time to spread, but now a pop star can falsify it across the world in hours. Of course it is not only the young who like to use the latest in-word. While they are describing their idols as smashing, great or cosmic, their parents and the more discriminating of the younger set are also groping for words of praise that are at once apt and fashionable. However, their choice of splendid, brilliant, fantastic and so on will in turn be slightly dimmed by over-use and need replacement.
Magic is a theme that bas regularly supplied words of phrase (and the choice must betray something in our nature). Charming, entrancing and enchanting are all based on it. So also is marvelous, which has been used so much that some of its magic has faded while among teenagers wizard had a great run. Another of this group, though you might not think it, is glamorous, which was all the rage in the great days of Hollywood. Glamour was a Scottish dialect form of "grammar" or "grammarye", which itself was an old word for enchantment. (Grammar means the study of words, and words have always been at the heart of magic.) The change from "r" to "1" may have come about through the association with words like gleaming and glittering.
On the whole, when a new word takes over the old ones remain, weakened but still in use, so that the total stock increases all the time. But some that start only as slang and never rise above the class can disappear completely. "Did you really say ripping when you were young?" my granddaughter asked me, rather like asking if I ever wore a suit of armor. Of course I did and it was no sillier than smashing, which some of her contemporaries are still saying. [br] The fact that magic is a frequent source of words of phrase suggests that people ______.
选项
A、lack linguistic originality
B、have always been interested in magic
C、are becoming more superstitious
D、are interested in magic when young
答案
B
解析
推断题。本题属于推理理解题。文中讲到魔力总是赞美类词语的来源,这表明人们,无论年长年幼,对魔力总是饶有兴趣,当然赞美的词语便层出不穷。四个选项相比,只有B是合乎逻辑,符合原意的。
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