题目内容
Slang is one of those things that everybody can recognize and nobody can define. Not only is it hard to wrap slang in a definition,it is also hard to distinguish it from such similar things as colloquialism,provincialism (方言) ,jargon (行话) or trade talk.
Usually,slang tends to be transient. Thus parents are often laughed at by their children when this older generation uses slang which was considered to be the height of fashion in their own youth. Of course,the slang teenage children use today is very different from that of their parents. Indeed it might ever be some obscure (difficult to understand) foreign language as far as the older generation is concerned for it is totally beyond their understanding.
It is often said that a slang term stops to be slang when it is "accepted by the dictionary". This is not really the case. You will find many slang terms listed in dictionaries are still slang terms. The term stops to be slang when it drives its respectable synonym (同义词) out of use,or when it acquires a meaning that cannot be expressed otherwise.
Such things have happened. The term "hot dog" was once a slang term,but it couldn't be considered so now. No one in America would go up to a counter and order "a sausage sandwich". Similarly "varsity", originally a slang contraction (short form of a word) of university,has acquired a special meaning which only it expresses and is no longer slang. Jazz,when it means a particular kind of music,is scarcely a slang form,since there is no more respectable word meaning that kind of music.
( ) 1. Which would be the best title for this passage?
A. Slang Terms and Other Forms of Language
B. Slang Terms and Their Meanings
C. How to Understand Slang Terms
D. Slang
( ) 2. Parents are often laughed at by their children when .
A. they use some obscure slang
B. they try to learn from their children
C. they use out-of-date slang
D. they want to follow the fashion
( ) 3. The examples in the last paragraph are intended to show .
A. when a slang word disappears
B. when a slang word is no longer slang
C. how to use slang words
D. how to understand slang words
( ) 4. The underlined word "transient" in the second paragraph probably means .
A. hard to understand B. easy to understand
C. temporary D. everlasting
1. D主旨归纳题。本文介绍的是"俚语"及其形成、变化等各方面的情况。,
2. C细节理解题。文章第2段说明俚语变化很快,所以当父母讲自己年轻时流行的俚语时会遭到孩子的嘲笑,因为这些俚语现在已经不流行了。
3. B主旨归纳题。文章第3段讲的是什么时候"俚语"不再是俚语,第4段举例来说明这一问题。
4. C词义理解题。文章第2段说明俚语过时得非常快,父母用俚语会遭到孩子的嘲笑,因此单词的意思是"短暂的"。