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The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare,if the findings of a study into children's writing are anything to go by. Researchers who looked at the entries to a national compe?tition found they were increasingly using American words such as garbage,trash can,sidewalk,candy,sneakers,soda,and flashlight.
The stories,written by pupils aged 7 to 13,show how fairy cakes are re?ferred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo.
Television also has a powerful influence on children's work,with Lady Gaga and Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names from TV cropping up repeatedly.
But pupils are let down by basic spelling,punctuation and grammar,ac?cording to the study by Oxford University Press (OUP) ， which looked at the entries to BBC Radio Two's 500 Words competition.
Children struggled to correctly spell simple words such as "does" and "clothes" and often failed to use the past tense correctly,frequently writing "rised" instead of "rose" or "thinked" instead of "thought".
Researchers also found that punctuation was underused,especially semi?colons and speech marks. Some did not know how to use capital letters. How?ever,exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35 ,171 examples in total,with some young writers using five at a time ！
Popular US fiction such as the Tvuilight novels and films is thought to be fueling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling.Meanwhile,fears that texting was corrupting children's written work were unfounded,they said,with youngsters only using text language when they were referring to a text message.
Samantha Armstrong from OUP said, "Perhaps we are catching a glimpse of the language of the future. " Chris Evans,whose radio show runs the com?petition,said the results were "fascinating", adding, "Who'd have thought that Messi and Gaga would be some of the most used names?"
1. According to the passage,which of the following is an example of British English?
A. Sneakers. B. Fairy cakes.
C. Tuxedo. D. Candy.
2. Which of the following was NOT frequently found in the pupils' stories?
A. Text message language.
B. A variety of Americanisms.
C. Overuse of exclamation marks.
D. Names of famous TV stars.
3. The underlined word "unfounded" in Paragraph 7 probably means " ”.
A. unbearable B. unnoticeable
C. not found D. not based on facts
4. The passage is intended to .
A. show that British children have spelling and grammar abilities
B. share the experience about how to teach written English in a correct way
C. discuss the noticeable changes and evolution of written English in Britain
D. criticize the influence of popular US culture on British children's lan?guage use
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English is an important global language,but that doesn't mean it's easy to learn. Many experts have tried to make English easier for students to learn―but they weren't always successful.
In 1930,Professor C. K. Ogden of Cambridge University invented Basic English. It had only 850 words (and just eighteen verbs) and Ogden said most people could learn it in just thirty hours. The problem was that people who learned Basic English could write and say simple messages,but they couldn't un?derstand the answers in "real" English. It was also impossible to explain a word if it wasn't in the Basic English word list. For example,if you wanted a wa?termelon,you asked for "a large green fruit with the form of an egg,which has a sweet red inside and a good taste".
R. E. Zachrisson,a university professor in Sweden,decided that the big?gest problem for learners of English was spelling,so he invented a language called Anglic. Anglic was similar to English,but with much simpler spelling. "Father" became " faadher", " new" became " nue" and "years" became "yeerz”. Unfortunately for some students of English,Anglic never became popular.
Even easier is the language which a ship's captain uses: it's called "seaspeak". Seaspeak uses a few simple phrases for every possible situation. In seaspeak,- for example you don't say, "I'm sorry. What did you say?" or "I didn't understand. Can you repeat that?”It's just "Say again. ” No more gram?mar.
In the age of international communication through the Internet,a new form of English might appear. A large number of the world's emails are in English and include examples of "NetLingo" like OIC(Oh,I see) and TTYL (Talk to you later) . In another fifty years,English might not exist and we will probably all speak fluent "Internetish".
1. It will take a person about weeks to learn Basic English if he spends two hours learning it every day.
A. six B. four
C. three D. two
2. According to Professor Zachrisson,what was the biggest problem for learners of English?
A. Grammar. B. Vocabulary.
C. Spelling. D. Speaking.
3. Which of the following is likely to be Anglic?
A. A graet batl.
B. IOU.
C. Long time no see.
D. Two five,no lights.
4. What might happen to English in another fifty years?
A. It might become a global language.
B. It might be replaced by "Internetish".
C. It might take the place of all other languages.
D. It might become more and more difficult.
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The plan: turn Mars into a blue world with streams and green fields,and then fill it with creatures from the earth. This idea may sound like something from a science fiction,but it is actually being taken seriously by many re?searchers.
This suggested future for the "red planet" will be the main topic for the discussion at an international conference hosted by NASA this week. Leading researchers as well as science fiction writers will attend the event. It comes as NASA is preparing a multi-billion-dollar Mars research programme. "Turning Mars into a little earth has been a topic in science fiction," said Dr Michael Meyer,NASA's senior scientist for astrobiology (太空生物学) ."Now with scientists exploring the reality,we can ask what are the real possibilities of changing Mars."
Most scientists agree that Mars could be turned into a little earth although much time would be needed to achieve this goal.
But many experts are shocked by this idea. "We are destroying our own world at an unbelievable speed and now we are talking about ruining another planet," said Paul Murdin,an expert of the Institute of Astronomy,Cam?bridge,UK.
Over the past months,scientists have become increasingly confident that they will find Martian life forms. Europe and America's robot explorers have found proof that water,mixed with soil,exists in large amounts on the plan?et. In addition,two different groups of scientists announced on March 28 that they had found signs of methane (甲烷) in the Martian atmosphere. The gas is a waste product of living creatures and could be produced by microbes (微生物) living in the red planet's soil.
But scientists such as Dr Lisa Pratt,a biologist at Indiana University,say that these microbes will be put in danger by the little earth project. "Before we have discovered if there is life on the Mars,we are talking about carrying out project that would destroy all these native life forms,all the strange microbes that we hope to find buried in the soil," said Dr Pratt. This view is shared by Monica Grady,a planetary scientist at the Natural History Museum,London. "We can't risk starting a global experiment that would wipe out the precious information we are looking for. " She said, "This is just wrong."
1. The passage is about .
A. a plan turning Mars into a little earth
B. the necessity of changing Mars
C. Mars supporting life
D. finding water on the Mars
2. Which of the following is NOT the reason why some scientists are against the plan?
A. The project would wipe out all the native life forms on the Mars.
B. The project will cost too much money and work.
C. We would ruin Mars.
D. We are destroying the precious information we are looking for.
3. We can infer from the passage that .
A. water is a crucial factor for life
B. the project will have little effect on the native life forms supposed to live on the Mars
C. Monica Grady is in favour of carrying out the little earth project
D. the idea turning Mars into a little earth is nothing but a science fiction
4. Which of the following supports the conclusion of microbes living in the Mars' soil?
A. Scientists found liquid water on the Mars.
B. Scientists found signs of methane in the Martian atmosphere.
C. Scientists found a lot of good soil on the Mars.
D. Scientists found some creatures living on the Mars.
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