2015-2016学年江苏省常州市高三(上)期末英语试卷.pdf

2015-2016 学年江苏省常州市高三（上）期末英语试卷 一、单选题（本大题共 1 小题，共 1.0 分） 1. It is beyond awkward when everyone around you _____________ laughing at a joke that you do not find funny ，especially if it's a joke told in a foreign language ．（ ） A. breaks into B. bursts out C. yells out D. falls into 二、阅读理解（本大题共 13 小题，共 26.0 分） A The Oxford dictionary has announced its word of the year ．It's spelled …Actually ，it isn't spelled at all ，because it contains no letters ，just a"face with tears of joy"emoji ． "The fact that English alone is proving not enough to meet the needs of 21st-century digital communication is a huge change ， "says Caspar Grathwohl ，president of Oxford Dictionaries ．When one of his dictionary colleagues suggested using an emoji instead of the word"emoji" ，" lightbulbs went off" ．Until recently ，Grathwohl ，who is 44 ，avoided using emojis altogether because he worried that he would look as if he"was trying to get in on teen culture" "I felt inauthentic But I think there was a tipping point this year It's now moved into ． ． ． the mainstream ．" Some 76% of the UK adult population owns a smartphone ，and of those ，between 80% and 90% use emojis．Worldwide ，six billion are sent daily ．The"face with tears of joy"is the most used， representing 20% of all UK and 17% of all US emoji use ． It has overtaken the standard smiley-face emoji in popularity ，which may mean that emoji users are moving towards exaggeration or irony or fun ，or that all this emoji use has brought everyone to a higher emotional plane ．Even if you don't send emojis yourself ，you will probably receive them ． How far do emojis function as a language "There's a lot of prejudice against emojis "Vyvyan