Question

If you've been joining in chat room conversation, 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 all talking at the same time.

It's fast: try talking to six people at once. It's easy: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, 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? A/S/L, the nearly universal request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a response from your pal.

If something makes you laugh, say you're OTF(=on the floor), or LOL(=laughing out loud), or combine 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(大写字母) are left in the dust, except when expressing strong feelings, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation (标点) is going, too.

1.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 can express themselves in a simple way

D. people should communicate in a funny way

2.If you get 17/F/NY as an answer to your A/S/L, it means ______.

A. the person 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.

3.Which of the following is a way to save online time?

A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.

B. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.

C. Many people draw pictures.

D. People never use the “shift” key.

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.A

【解析】很多人都喜欢在聊天室或者通过电子邮件和网友聊天，为了节省时间，他们在聊天时，会使用一些特殊的缩写形式，而且不用大写字母或者标点符号。

1.推理判断题。这句话的意思是：没有时间和空间来进行解释。再结合文意And it requires very simple language可知，网上聊天的人们都使用非常简单的语言，由此我们可知，这句话的言外之意是网上聊天的人们可以用简单的方式来表达自己。因此C选项符合文意。

2.推理判断题。根据短文中A/S/L, the nearly universal request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a response from your pal.可知，A/S/L代表的是你的笔友的年龄、性别和位置，因此回复中17代表年龄是17岁，F代表female 女性，NY代表New York，由此可知应选B。

3.细节理解题。根据短文中.People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters(大写字母) are left in the dust, except when expressing strong feelings, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation (标点) is going, too.可知，人们想要写得尽可能快，所以他们省去了大写字母和标点符号。由此可知应选A。