If you’ve been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals(网友), you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English.
Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are “talking” online — many of them are talking at the same time.
It’s fast: trying talking to six people once. It’s convenient: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, concentration and quick fingers.
And it requires very simple language. There’s neither time nor space for explanations. Why waste valuable time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB (=be right back) will do?
Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI (=pardon me for jumping in).
Interested in whom you’re talking to? Type A/S/L, the common request to know your pal’s age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a reply from your pal.
If something makes you laugh, say you’re OTF (=on the floor), or LOL (=laughing out loud), or join the two into ROTFL (=rolling on the floor laughing).
And when it’s time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG (=got to go) or TTYL (=talk to you later).
People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the “shift” key and use capitals. Punctuation is going too.
1.When people are online, they talk by ______.
A. using body language
B. drawing some strange pictures
C. making phone calls
D. making use of a special short form of English
2.The sentence “There’s neither time nor space for explanations” means that ______.
A. people should use words properly
B. people should know what time it is when they are talking
C. people online have to express themselves in a simple way
D. people should communicate in a funny way
3. If you get 17/F/NY as an answer to your A/S/L, it means ______.
A. the people on the other end is 17 from New York and he is fine
B. you are talking to a girl who is 17 and lives in New York
C. you are talking to 17 girls who are from New York
D. the people you are talking to is a 17-foot tall New York girl
4.Which of the following is a way to save online time?
A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.
B. Many people draw pictures.
C. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.
D. People never use the “shift” key.
News One: 29 October, 2015
The government of China plans to end its one-child per family policy (政策) and instead let families have two children. The plan was announced Thursday after high-level meetings in Beijing. China, which has the largest population, made the one-child policy in 1980. The government allowed only a small number of couples to have two children for so many years. For example, some couples in the countryside could have two children.
News Two: 05 October, 2015
The first of the 2015 Nobel Prizes has been announced. Sweden’s Nobel Prize committee says the Nobel Prize for medicine will go to scientists from Ireland, Japan and China. William Campbell from Ireland and Satoshi Omura from Japan share the prize for their discovery of the medicine avermectin (阿维菌素). The Nobel committee praised their work on what it calls a “novel therapy.” The treatment fights disease caused by parasites（寄生虫）. The prize for medicine is also going to Chinese researcher Tu Youyou. She discovered Artemisia. Artemisia is a drug (药物) that has greatly made the number of people who die from malaria (疟疾) smaller.
News Three: 09 December, 2015
Oil prices have fallen to their lowest levels since 2009. Brent crude oil, one of several kinds of oil on the world market, dropped below $40 a barrel（桶） on Tuesday. However, the main group of oil producing countries has been unable to reduce the oil production.
1.How long did China’s one-child policy last?
A. 38 years. B. 36 years. C. 25 years. D. 65 years.
2.Who got the Nobel Prize for medicine?
A. Tu Youyou from China.
B. William Campbell from Ireland.
C. William Campbell from Ireland and Satoshi Omura from Japan.
D. William Campbell from Ireland, Satoshi Omura from Japan and Tu Youyou from China.
3.What can we know from News Three?
A. There is only one kind oil on the world market.
B. Main oil producing countries will produce less oil.
C. Oil prices on Tuesday are the lowest in history.
D. Main oil producing countries will still produce as much oil as before.
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阅读下列短文， 从文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the manager came over and said that our meal was free. He stood there at me, he seemed to know me. I asked if he knew me. He laughed and said I had probably _ him, but I had changed his life. He said that twelve years ago he was in stress management class. I asked the group what their number one stress was and of them, including him, said it was their .
He said I listened carefully and then took a chair and placed it in the center of the room. I on the chair for a few minutes and then I invited everyone to do the same. I wanted them to look at the room from there. After everyone had done it, I asked the group to think about how the room looked when they changed their perspective(角度).
Then I asked them to their bosses. Was this the same person who had seen their good__ and hired（雇佣） them? Do they remember how happy they were to be for the job? How did these wonderful people become terrible bosses?
He said I looked at him and asked if he had said thank you to his boss for the opportunity to make a living. He answered no.
He told me his changed that night. He went back to work with a card to his boss. He had been the manager for 8 years. He said he owed（把……归功于） it all to me: I had taught him to look at life from different perspectives and I had taught him to express gratitude（感激之情）.
1.A. Shouting B. smiling C. looking D. knocking
2.A. Suddenly B. Luckily C. Finally D. Firstly
3.A. Remembered B. seen C. disliked D. forgotten
4.A. their B. our C. his D. my
5.A. More B. most C. few D. fewer
6.A. teachers B. wives C. bosses D. children
7.A. stood B. sat C. walked D. rested
8.A. down B. right C. left D. up
9.A. special B. different C. strange D. same
10.A. miss B. consider C. like D. thank
11.A. qualities B. tastes C. looks D. skills
12.A. found B. refused C. chosen D. trained
13.A. never B. always C. sometimes D. ever
14.A. life B. luck C. salary D. job
15.A. sorry B. post C. thank-you D. greeting
—Shall we watch Korean TV dramas together?
—_________. I’d rather go to play football.
A. They are worth watching
B. I’m a fan of TV dramas
C. I’d rather watch some
D. It’s a waste of time
People have ______ Beijing Music Awards on the Internet.
A. vote for B. voted for C. vote D. voted
Would local people rather live in ____ London than in a town nearby?
A. out B. centre C. central D. mid
