If you used“add oil”to express encouragement or support someone in your spoken English or your homework in the past. Your English teacher would tell you that you were wrong. But now, things are different, the phrase has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Add oil" has been “legal(合法的)” Chinglish as well as "lose face”and “long time no see".

The phrase,“加油(jia you) in Chinese means adding oil into the engine(发动机). Chinese often speak it loudly in games and competitions to encourage players.

Even though the phrase is widely used in the Chinese language, it's always been difficult to come up with a proper way to translate it into English. The phrase is used oil, so after that some people jokingly(开玩笑地)translate it into “add oil”.

Before taking in “add oil”, some other Chinese phrases have been included in the Oxford English Dictionary such as guanxi (personal connections that aid business) and lucky money(money given in red bags). In recent years, the Oxford English Dictionary has taken in other Chinese popular words like tuhao (meaning rich person who comes from countryside) and dama(referring to elderly women).

In 2014, the American Urban Dictionary took in a few Chinese Internet popular words such as no zuo no die(which translates into English as “if you don't do stupid things,they won't come back and bite you in the back”),"you can you up, no can no BB”(which translates into English as "if you can do it you should go on and do it, instead of criticizing(批评)others ' work").

According to the Oxford English Dictionary website, more than 1,400 new words and phrases have been added into it. With the development of China, there will be more Chinese popular words in English.

1.From the first paragraph, we can know________.

A.we can't use "add oil” in written English but spoken English

B.teachers don't allow the students to use “add oil” in written English

C.we can find “add oil"in the Oxford English Dictionary now

D.“lose face”and"long time no see”are not legal Chinglish

2.Why is the phrase “add oil”added into the Oxford English Dictionary?

A.Because it can be widely used in important competitions.

B.Because people who speak English like using it very much

C.Because some people want to use it to play jokes.

D.Because it's used widely and it's difficult to translated it into English.

3.The third paragraph tells us________.

A.“guanxi”was add to the Oxford English Dictionary earlier than “add oil”

B.“tuhao”and“dama”will be added to the Oxford English Dictionary soon

C.if a person who has lots of money, we can call him/her“tuhao"

D.“lucky money” in the money in red bags that given by“tuhao"

4.Which of the following is WRONG?

A.Some Chinese popular Internet words have been added to the American Urban Dictionary.

B."No zuo no die”means “if you do something stupid,you will be punished badly".

C."You can you up no can no BB”is used against people who criticize others' work.

D.Over 1,400 new words and phrases have been added into the Oxford English Dictionary

5.What's the writer's opinion?

A.Chinese is getting more and more popular around the world.

B.English will take in more and more Chinese popular words.

C.More and more English popular words will appear in Chinese.

D.English is getting more popular than before in China.

Papua New Guinea is the eastern part of the island of New Guinea. It has a population of just over eight million. The capital is Port Moresby. The country became independent from Australia in 1975. There are over 800 languages in Papua New Guinea. That's more languages than in any other country in the world.

Papua New Guinea is a land of mountains and rainforests. Most communities have little contact with each other or with the outside world. It's for this reason that so many different languages have developed.

The official (官方的) languages of Papua New Guinea are Tok Pisin, English and Hiri Motu. Although English is an official language, it is only spoken as a first language by a small percentage of the population.

Tok Pisin is spoken by most people. It is an English-based creole. The word “tok” comes from the English word for “talk” and means “word” or “speech”.

“Pisin” means “pidgin”. A pidgin language is one which is a mixture of two other languages, while a creole is a pidgin language that has become the mother language of a community. Tok Pisin started as a pidgin language and became a creole language.

Although the majority (大多数) of Tok Pisin vocabulary (词汇) comes from English, it also includes words from German, Portuguese, Latin and a number of other languages.

Tok Pisin is sometimes used in the first three years of primary school in Papua New Guinea, while English is used in secondary education.

1.How long is the history of Papua New Guinea as an independent country?

A.Over 40 years. B.About 100 years. C.About 200 years. D.Over 800 years.

2.What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?

A.Communities in Papua New Guinea. B.The natural beauty of Papua New Guinea.

C.How Papua New Guinea became independent. D.Why Papua New Guinea has so many languages.

3.What's the relationship between creole (a) and pidgin (b)?

A. B. C. D.

4.Tok Pisin words mainly come from _______.

A.Latin B.English C.German D.Portuguese

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