Question

¡°Long time no see¡± is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence in an American friend¡¯s e-mail, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect ___36___ of Chinglish.

  Obviously, it is a word¨Dfor¨Dword literal translation of the Chinese greeting with ___37___ English grammar and structure. Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American ___38____. I was too amazed to believe her. Her words could not ___39___ me at all. So I did a ____40___ on www.google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages ___41___ ¡°Long time no see¡±. This sentence has been ____42___ used in e-mails, letters, newspapers, books, and all other possible places. Though it is ____43____ informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. ____44___, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the ____45___ will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

   Nobody knows the ___46___ of this sentence. Some people believe that it comes from Charlie Chan movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully ____47___ a world famous Chinese detective named Charlie Chan on the wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans Chinese wisdom____48___ quoting Confucius (). ¡°Long time no see¡± was his trademark. Soon after the first Charlie Chan movie was released, ¡°long time no see¡± became a (n) ____49___ phrase in the real world ____50___ the popularity of these movies.

   Some people ____51___ America to a huge melting pot. All kinds of cultures are ____52___ in the pot, so the color and taste of them all is ____53___. Chinese Americans, though a minority ethnic group in the United States, also ____54___ to these changes! Language is usually the first thing to be ____55___ in the melting pot.

 

36. A. example	B. sign	C. word	D. change
37. A. tied	B. perfected	C. learned	D. ruined
38. A. custom	B. greeting	C. habit	D. proverb
39. A. persuade	B. encourage	C. convince	D. believe
40. A. job	B. research	C. survey	D. search
41. A. containing	B. printing	C. publishing	D. expressing
42. A. widely	B. hardly	C. seldom	D. deeply
43. A. lots of	B. plenty of	C. most of	D. sort of
44. A. Unfortunately	B. Luckily	C. However	D. Suddenly
45. A. hardware	B. software	C. operator	D. speaker
46. A. use	B. origin	C. expression	D. meaning
47. A. created	B. published	C. did	D. discovered
48. A. by	B. in	C. with	D. of
49. A. ordinary	B. rare	C. modern	D. popular
50. A. in spite of	B. as to	C. thanks to	D. but for
51. A. compare	B. add	C. join	D. own
52. A. joined	B. mixed	C. finished	D. done
53. A. improved	B. changed	C. lowered	D. promoted
54. A. owe	B. put	C. take	D. contribute
55. A. influenced	B. mentioned	C. used	D. considered

 

Answer 1

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