Question

    More and more Chinese words are playing a part in the English language. Maybe that's because 300 million Chinese people are now studying or speaking English.

A study says several hundred Chinese words are coming into the English language every year. One example of a word used in English is chengguan (city patrol officer) . A quick Google searched it over a million times.

    The Oxford English Dictionary now has about 1 ,000 words of Chinese words,such as taikonaut (中國 宇航員) . In China,taikonaut means a person trained by a human spaceflight program to fly in space.

    In August this year,The Wall Street Journal used the word dama,which is Chinese pinyin for “big mother”，to report the middle-aged Chinese women leading the world's gold market.

    But Han Baocheng,a language teacher at Beijing Foreign Studies University,said ,“Using ‘Chinglish,doesn’t mean Chinese words are trying to take the place of the English words. That's only because we cannot find the right words in English to express (表達(dá)) the meanings in Chinese. ”

    In fact,the mixing of the two languages makes it easier to learn a second language. 24-year-old Canadian Lisa said ,“ My mom can't speak any Chinese,she has to remember ni hao (hello) by 4 knee,and 4 how’. But she can easily say words with Chinese."

1. Why do many Chinese words come into the English speaking every year?

   A. Because Chinese is useful than English.

   B. Because more people speak Chinese than English.

   C. Because too many Chinese are studying or speaking English.

   D. Because Chinese words are easy to speak.

2. According to The Wall Street Journal,who is dama?

   A. All the middle-aged Chinese women.

   B. All the middle-aged women in the world.

   C. The Chinese women leading the world's gold market.

   D. The Chinese women taking care of kids at home.

3. What does the underlined word “mixing” mean in Chinese?

   A. 結(jié)合   B. 學(xué)習(xí)

   C. 構(gòu)造   D. 消失

4. How does Canadian Lisa's mother learn Chinese?

   A. By writing Chinese words.

   B. By speaking Chinese pinyin.

   C. By speaking the English words.

   D. By talking with Chinese people.

Answer 1

1. C 2. C 3. A 4. C

導(dǎo)讀

這是一篇說明文。本文闡述并分析一種語言現(xiàn)象，那就 是越來越多的有中文淵源的單詞在英語中出現(xiàn)，中文對英語 的影響力與日倶增，這充分說明，一個國家影響力越大，這個 國家的語言影響力也會越大。

詳析

1. C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第一段 “Maybe that's because 300million Chinese people are now studying or speaking English. ”可知，正是由于說英語的中國人有這么 多，言語中會將漢語滲透到英語中。

2. C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第四段“…report the middle-agedChinese women leading the world's gold market."可知， 美國的《華爾街日報》用“大媽”這個詞指那些購買金 首飾并帶動金價上漲的中國大媽。

3. A詞義猜測題。上文中提到漢語詞匯已經(jīng)融人到英語中，因此猜測，mix意為“結(jié)合”。

4. C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。理解最后一段可知，Lisa的媽媽學(xué)漢語，用英語單詞的讀音“ knee”和“ how”記住“你好”，故C 項是正確的。

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障礙句分析

In China,taikonaut means a person trained by a human spaceflight program to fly in space.在中國，taikonaut 指的是

接受載人航天項目訓(xùn)練在太空飛行的人。

該句中，trained by a human spaceflight program 是過去分 詞短語，作后置定語，修飾前面的名詞person ,它與被修飾詞 person在邏輯上為被動關(guān)系，意為“被載人航天項目訓(xùn)練的人”。