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Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expressions. But there is a vital di
Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expressions. But there is a vital di
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2010-06-30
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Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expressions. But there is a vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language, enabling us to say things we could not say before, and bad developments, which subtract from the language by rendering it less precise. A vivid, colorful use of words is not to be confused with mere casual use. The casual use in which some professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin to the fashion of the unfinished work, which has eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the same--that art is enhanced, no hindered, by discipline. You cannot carve satisfactorily in butter.
The corruption of written English has been accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than was common among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.
The modern theatre has played a part in dimming our appreciation of language. Instead of the immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw (who was also very insistent on good pronunciation), audiences are now subjected to streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, to exhibit" lack of communication", and filled with dirty words and grammatical errors of the intellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her reader: "The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-pronounced speech. "Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons in how to speak badly, so that she should fit in better.
But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfully helping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Union shyly put it," In the 1960’s the BBC opened the field to a much wider range of speakers". To hear a BBC disc jockey talking to the latest apelike pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbal garbage. And the prospect seems to be of even worse to come. School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnny’s incoherent grammar, bad spelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius.
What is the author’s attitude towards the change of English?
选项
A、Positive.
B、Indifferent.
C、Tolerant.
D、Negative.
答案
D
解析
纵观全文,第一段作者说语言的变化有好有坏,接下来主要说英语发生了不好的变化,并以剧院和BBC的英语为例加以说明。最后,根据教师对学生语言的忽视,作者认为英语使用的前景并不看好。整个这些都说明作者对英语的变化持否定态度。A、B和 C与文意不符。
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