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Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their elders and it is
Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their elders and it is
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Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their elders 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, lab 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 has regularly supplied words of praise (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 have always been at the heart of magic.) The change from "r"to"l"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 ine, rather like asking if I ever wore a suit of armour. Of course, I did and it was no sillier than smashing, which some of her contemporaries are still saying. [br] To the author’s granddaughter the word"ripping"______.
选项
A、seems strange and old-fashioned
B、has a clearer meaning than it does for the author
C、is unacceptable because it is slang
D、means much the same as" smashing"
答案
A
解析
文章指出,通过与孙女之间的对话,说明在孙女的概念里,ripping是个奇怪又过时的词。第四段第三句“Did you really say ripping when you were young?”my granddaughter asked ine,ratherlike asking if I ever wore a suit of armour.Of course,I did and it was no sillier than smashing,whichsome of her contemporaries are still saying.
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