2017-2018学年四川省成都市高新区高一(下)期末英语试卷.pdf

2017-2018 学年四川省成都市高新区高一（下）期末英语 试卷 副标题 题号 I II III IV V VI 总分 得分 一、阅读理解（本大题共 11 小题，共 22.0 分） A These days， young people in some English-speaking countries are speaking a strange language， especially when communicating on social media ． Look at these words chosen by The Washington Post ： "David Bowie dying is totes tradge ，" and "When Cookie hugged Jamal it made me totes emosh．" Or this sentence： "BAE ， let me know if you stay in tonight ．" What on earth do they mean？ Well ，"totes" is a short form of "totally" ．Similarly ， "tradge" means "tragic" and "emosh" means "emotional" ．It seems that，for millennials （千禧一代） ， typing in this form is not only time-saving but fashionable ． As you can see， many millennial slangs （俚语）are formed by so-called "totesing"-the systematic abbreviation （缩写）of words ． The trend might have started with "totally" becoming "totes" ， but it now has spread to many other English words ． The origins of other millennial slangs are more complex than "totesing" " Bae" for example ． ， ， has been widely used by African-Americans for years ． It can be an expression of closeness with one's romantic partner or ， like "sweetheart" ， for someone without romantic connection ．After pop singer Pharrell used the word in his work ，"bae" became mainstream． Some people might think millennial slangs lower the value of the English language ， but Melbourne University linguist （语言学家） Rosey Billington doesn't agree ． She says when people are able to use a language in a creative way， they show that they know the language rules well enough to use words differently ． Two