Question

【题目】Making words shorter is a common habit of English speakers today.

It seems that most sayings or popular words have their own abbreviation. 【1】 For example, LOL stands for “laughing out loud”，IMO is “in my opinion” and BTW is “by the way”. US technology website Lifewire made a list of the most common abbreviations in 2016.

Simple ones you may already know - like BTW, IMO and IDK (I don’t know) made the list. 【2】 They include TFW (that feeling when), and FTW (for the win). TFW is sometimes used along with a funny photo to describe your feelings, while FTW is a kind of internet cheer used to express happiness. 【3】 You can use this one before you tell someone what you think about something.

【4】 Terry Wood, a foreign language teacher from Leonardtown, US, says the habits have lowered his students’ writing abilities. “They do not capitalize (大写) words or use punctuation anymore,” Wood told US News. “【5】”

A. The list is meant to be good fun.

B. Another interesting learn is IMHO (in my humble opinion).

C. But there were lots of other more difficult ones on the list, too.

D. This happens a lot when they are used on social media or in a text message.

E. Any word longer than one syllable (音节) is now abbreviated to one.

F. Researchers identified several ways in which teens changed language while speaking online.

G. However, some people believe these abbreviations are also causing problems.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【4】G

【5】E

【解析】文章主要讲述了越来越多的人实用英语缩写去表达语言，简单地一些缩写容易理解，然而一些复杂的就难以理解，越来越多的使用可能会引出一些问题。

【1】考查对上下文理解及推理判断能力。句意：在社交媒体或文本消息中使用时，这种情况经常发生。根据“It seems that most sayings or popular words have their own abbreviation. ” 似乎大多数的俗语或流行语有自己的缩写。以及“For example, LOL stands for “laughing out loud”，IMO is “in my opinion” and BTW is “by the way”.” 例如，LOL代表“笑出声”，IMO是“在我看来”，BTW是“顺便说一下”。所填句子承上启下。根据题意，故选D。

【2】考查对上下文理解及推理判断能力。句意：但单子上还有很多其他更难的。根据上文“Simple ones you may already know”一些简单的你可能会知道，这两处相对应，对下文“TFW”“FTW”做了详细的解释，可知文中列出的这两个较难理解。根据题意，故选C。

【3】考查对上下文理解及推理判断能力。句意：另一个有趣的是IMHO（在我看来）。根据“You can use this one before you tell someone what you think about something.”在你告诉别人你对这件物品的想法前你可以使用这个词汇。根据题意，故选B。

【4】考查对上下文理解及推理判断能力。句意：然而，有些人认为这些缩写也造成了问题。根据“Terry Wood, a foreign language teacher from Leonardtown, US, says the habits have lowered his students’ writing abilities.”来自于美国Leonardtown的一名外语老师Terry Wood说这个习惯降低了学生的写作能力。可知缩写造成了一些问题。根据题意，故选G。

【5】考查对上下文理解及推理判断能力。句意：任何单词超过一个音节被缩写成一个。根据“They do not capitalize (大写) words or use punctuation anymore” 他们不大写词或使用标点符号了。可知他们习惯于将句子单词写成缩写。根据题意，故选E。