Doctors tend to think that the rules ______.
A. may ruin doctor-patient relationship
B. can do more harm than good
C. will prevent doctors from doing medical research
D. will cod up in more health care cost and poorer medical service
The video has led to______.
A. people's greater confidence on the government
B. lighter tension between Sunni and Shiite
C. sympathy for Saddam
D. people's more intensive hatred for Saddam
According to the interview, which of the following is not tree?
A. The older she got the more comfortable she was with herself.
B. As she got older she no longer ran sacred anymore.
C. Now, a lot of people think that part of aging is that they don't get to do the things that they could do, they become inactive, they sit around and watch television.
D. When they are getting older they can go out and have fun.
Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their elders and it is in their speech, as it always was, that most of the vocabulary changes originate. But listening critically to their talk I hear hardly my new words. It is all a matter of using old words in a new way and then copying each other as they wish to speak differently from their parents. They want even more to speak like people of their own age. A new usage once took time to spread, but now a pop star can flash it across the world in hours.
Of course it is not only the young who like to use the latest in-word. While they are describing their idols as smashing, great, or cosmic (宇宙的), their parents and the more discriminating of the younger set are also groping for words of praise that are at once apt and fashionable. However, their choice of splendid, brilliant, fantastic and so on will in turn be slightly dimmed by over-use and need replacement.
Magic is a theme that has regularly supplied words of praise (and the choice must betray something in our nature). Charming, entrancing and enchanting are all based on it. So also is marvellous, which has been used so much that some of its magic has faded while among teenagers wizard has a great nm. Another of this group, though you might not think it, is glamorous (迷人的), which was ail the fashion in the great days of Hollywood. Glamour was a Scottish dialect form. of "grammar", which itself was an old word for enchantment(Grammar means the study of words, and words have always been at the heart of magic ). The change from" r" to" l" may have come about through the association with words like gleaning and glittering.
On the whole, when a new word takes over the old ones remain, weakened but still in use, so that the total stock increases all the time. But some that start only as slang and never rise above that class can disappear completely. "Did you really say ripping when you were young?" my granddaughter asked me, rather than asking if I ever wore a suit of amour (盔甲). Of course I did and it was no sillier than smashing, which some of her contemporaries are still saying.
What do young people like to do in their speech?
A. Invent words that older people cannot understand.
B. Use words invented by pop stars.
C. Give words new meanings to mislead their parents.
D. Copy the speech of their contemporaries.