If you've been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e－mails 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 nearly universal 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 (标点) is going too.
1.When people are online, they talk by ________.
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A．using body language |
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B．drawing some strange pictures |
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C．making phone calls |
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D．making use of an especially short form of English |
2.The underlined sentence in Para. 4 means that ________.
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A．people should use words properly |
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B．people should know what time it is when they are talking |
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C．people online have to express themselves in a simple way |
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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________.
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A．the people on the other end is 17 from New York and he is fine |
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B．you are talking to a girl who is 17 and lives in New York |
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C．you are talking to 17 girls who are from New York |
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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?
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A．People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks. |
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B．Many people draw pictures. |
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C．People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard. |
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D．People never use the “Shift” key. |
The lights dimmed，the musical hall grew quiet and out walked the conductor (指挥) shiny and white and 4 feet and 3 inches tall.
ASIMO, a robot designed by Honda Motor Co., met its latest challenge Tuesday evening: Conducting the Detroit Symphony (底特律交响乐团), in a performance of “The Impossible Dream” from “Man of La Mancha”．
“Hello, everyone，” ASIMO said to the audience in a childlike voice, then waved to the orchestra. As it conducted, it perfectly mimicked (模仿) the actions of a conductor,
nodding its head at various sections and gesturing with one or both hands. ASIMO took a final bow to excited shouts from the audience. Later, cellist Yo－Yo Ma joined ASIMO onstage to receive an award for his efforts in music education.
Honda spokeswoman Alicia Jones says it is the first time ASIMO has conducted an orchestra, and it may be the first time any robot has conducted a live performance. But ASIMO has its limits. ASIMO's engineers programmed the robot to mimic Charles Burke, the Detroit Symphony's education director, as he conducted the piece in front of a pianist about six months ago. But it can't respond to the musicians.
“It's not a communicative device. It simply is programmed to do a set of gestures，” said Leonard Slatkin, the orchestra's musical director. “If the orchestra decides to go faster, there's nothing the robot can do about it. Hopefully, I keep that under control.”
But several musicians also said ASIMO was more realistic than they expected. “The movements are still a little stiff (僵硬的), but very humanlike, much better than I thought，” Hutchinson said.
1.What's the audience's response to ASIMO's performance?
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A．Disappointed. |
B．Moved. |
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C．Excited. |
D．Astonished. |
2.Whose conducting was ASIMO made to copy?
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A．Yo－Yo Ma's. |
B．Charles Burke's. |
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C．Leonard Slatkin's. |
D．Alicia Jones's. |
3.We can learn from the passage that ASIMO ________.
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A．was designed and trained by Yo－Yo Ma |
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B．can communicate with the audience freely |
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C．only performs according to the designed programs |
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D．can change its conducting style freely |
4.What would be the best title for this passage?
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A．Detroit Symphony gives a good performance |
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B．Honda robot conducts Detroit Symphony |
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C．“The Impossible Dream” from Detroit Symphony |
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D．Cooperation between Honda and Detroit Symphony |
—Did he admit for what he'd done?
—________.
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A．No wonder |
B．Well done |
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C．Not really |
D．Go ahead |
As is known to all, a block of ice will ________ if it is exposed to heat.
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A．increase |
B．cut |
C．decrease |
D．lower |
Last year the number of death increased ________ 2%～5% ________ the year before last.
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A．to; comparing to |
B．to; comparing with |
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C．by; to compare with |
D．by; compared with |
“I don't think it's my ________ that the TV blew up. I just turned it on，that's all，” said the boy.
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A．error |
B．mistake |
C．fault |
D．duty |
