【C13】A.as far asB.becauseC.whenD.even if
【C13】
A.as far as
B.because
C.when
D.even if
【C13】
A.as far as
B.because
C.when
D.even if
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 vocabulary changes originate. But listening critically to their talk I hear hardly my new words. It is all a matter of using old words in a new way and then copying each other 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 flash 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 (宇宙的), 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 marvellous, which has been used so much that some of its magic has faded while among teenagers wizard has a great nm. Another of this group, though you might not think it, is glamorous (迷人的), which was ail the fashion in the great days of Hollywood. Glamour was a Scottish dialect form. of "grammar", 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" l" may have come about through the association with words like gleaning 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 that class can disappear completely. "Did you really say ripping when you were young?" my granddaughter asked me, rather than asking if I ever wore a suit of amour (盔甲). Of course I did and it was no sillier than smashing, which some of her contemporaries are still saying.
What do young people like to do in their speech?
A.Invent words that older people cannot understand.
B.Use words invented by pop stars.
C.Give words new meanings to mislead their parents.
D.Copy the speech of their contemporaries.
A.get out of business suddenly
B.be discovered accidentally by foresighted businessman
C.make a lot of money unexpectedly
D.prove to be very useful in daily life by chance
A.has taken on a new urgency
B.holds a strong discrimination against the disabled
C.is in favor of a network of older applicants
D.puts too much emphasis on elitism
B.Most people are willing to donate their faces.
C.Most people are concerned about moral problems.
D.Most people have no clue what face transplant means.
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
When Oxford University raised the idea of establishing a business school six years ago, outraged Ionians unleashed (发起,释放) volleys of Ciceronian oratory, arguing that the groves of academe should be out of bounds to commerce. How times have changed. Frustrated by the British government's reluctance to let the university charge red-world tuition fees, demoralized by mounting charges of elitism, with research and teaching stifled by inadequate state subsidies, the dons are realizing that capitalism might just be the key to their future. At the traditional 800-year-old institution, increasing numbers of them are calling for their university to be privatized.
That's a hugely controversial proposal in a country that still clings fiercely to the ideal of providing a free, state-funded education to anyone who merits it. Prime Minister Tony Blair wants 50 percent of Britain's under-30s in full-time education by 2000, and given his no new-taxes style, universities suspect they'll be responsible for finding a large proportion of the $ 15 million that will cost. Already Oxford is having trouble paying salaries sufficient to attract top teachers; a full-time Professor gets $ 68 400--roughly half the salaries of their U. S. counterparts. For Oxford, long the global epitome(缩影) of top-drawer education, the question is whether the university's days as a bastion(堡垒) of world-class excellence might be over.
Lately the issue seems to have taken on a new urgency. Newspapers reported mini-scandal just last week that a 19-year: old deaf student, Anastasia Fedotova, failed to win place despite high exam scores. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown criticized the admissions system as "more reminiscent of the old-boy network.., than genuine justice in our society". This highlighted just how vulnerable Oxford remains to charges of elitism.
"More and more people are saying the only solution is independence," says classics professor Richard Jenkyns. In the end, Oxford may be hoping for some in-between solution. Since 1998 it has been pumping funds into a private company called ISIS Innovation, set up to commercialize researchers' discoveries. Of a total of 28 fledging spin-offs, all are still in business. While big payoffs are still a long way off, "that could quickly change", says managing director Tim Cook," if one of them hits the jackpot." More immediately, Oxford bigwigs report that permission to charge the full cost of tuition will almost certainly be given in government report due this November. Oxford still isn't likely to let business interests run wild over its hallowed greensward. But it is learning that the academic freedom it so prizes can be preserved only at a price.
We can learn from the passage that ______.
A.Oxford University will gradually become a private university like Harvard
B.Oxford University is beginning to think of commercial ways to collect money
C.the only solution to Oxford University's problems is being independent
D.the British government will offer Oxford University more subsidies
A.the future orientation of universities
B.the financial problems of universities
C.the influence of government's policy on universities
D.the purity of universities in its field of academe research
B.The complex technical procedure.
C.The obtaining of moral approval.
D.The shortage of willing donors.
B.People whose faces were burned.
C.People who suffer from cancer.
D.People who want to be more beautiful.
听力原文: Full face transplant are no longer science fiction fantasy, a leading surgeon has said, adding that they are technically feasible but morally complex. Peter Butler from London's Royal Free Hospital called for a debate on the morality of(29)such an operation made possible by new drugs which stop the body's immune system rejecting a transplanted face. (30)"It is not 'can we do it?' but 'should we do it?'," he told the BBC. "The technical part is not complex, but I don't think that's going to be the very great difficulty... The moral debate is obviously going to have to take place before the first facial transplantation."
The British Association of Plastic Surgeons will discuss the microsurgical procedure, which could give new skin, bone, nose, chin, lips and ears from diseased donors(31)to patients disfigured by accidents, burns or cancer. But surgeons could have trouble finding enough willing donors. (32)Butler said his survey of doctors, nurses and members of the public showed most would accept a face transplant but few were willing to donate their own after dying.
Despite a number of moral concerns, Christine Piff, who founded the charity Let's Face It after suffering a rare facial cancer 25 years ago, welcomed the possibility of face transplants. She rejected the idea that the procedure would mean people would end up living with a dead person's face. "There are so many people without faces, I have half a face... but we all so much more than just a face... you don't take on their personality. You are still you, "she told reporters. "If we can donate other organs of the body, then why not the face? I can't see anything wrong with it."
(33)
A.New drugs.
B.Advanced equipment.
C.Skillful surgeons.
D.Settled debate.
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