回答下列各题 Language is and should be a living th
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回答下列各题 Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enrichedwith new words and forms of expression. But there is a vital distinctionbetween good developments, which add to the language, enabling us to say thingswe could not say before, and bad developments, which subtract from the languageby rendering it less precise. A vivacious, colorful use of words is not to beconfused with mere slovenliness. The kind of slovenliness in which someprofessionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin to the cult(迷信)of the unfinished work, whichhas eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the samethat art is enhanced, not hindered, by discipline. You cannot carvesatisfactorily in butter. The corruption of written English has been accompanied by an evensharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less wellthan was common among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago. The modern theatre has played a baneful (有害的)part in dimming ourappreciation of language. Instead of the immensely articulate dialogue of, forexample, Shaw (who was also very insistent on good pronunciation), audiencesare now subjected to streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, onlytoo well, to exhibit lack of communication, and larded(夹杂)with the obscenities(下流的话)and grammaticalerrors of the intellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers:"The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciatedspeech. " Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to betaking lessons in how to speak badly, so that she should fit in better. But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfullyhelping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddenly went intoreverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unit coyly(含蓄地)put it, "In the 1960s theBBC opened the field to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBCdisc jockey talking to the latest ape-like pop idol is a truly shockingexperience of verbal squalor. And the prospect seems to be of even worse tocome. School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnnysincoherent grammar, atrocious spelling and haphazard punctuation, becauseworrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius. The writer relates linguistic slovenliness to tendencies inthe arts today in that they both __________.
A.occasionally aim at a certain fluidity
B.appear to shun perfection
C.from time to time show regard for the finishing touch
D.make use of economical short cuts请帮忙给出正确答案和分析,谢谢!
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正确答案:B
【参考译文】【议论文:英语语言的水平正在走下坡路】第一段:好的发展为语言注入新的东两,但坏的发展则可能降低语言的层次。第二段:伴随着书面英语的质量日渐变差,口语的水平更大大降低。第三段:人们对语言的欣赏水平越来越差,在很大程度上与现代剧院有关。第四段:BBC原本致力于提升英语的口语标准,但近年来其语言的水准大大下降,现在的学校也不再苛责孩子在语言表达上的问题,这些都使得英语的未来更加堪忧。【答案解析】定位:根据题干信息词slovenliness和,arts可将答案定位到第一段第四句。解析:该句提到:“有些语言工作者有意大量以邋遢、马虎的方式使用词汇,他们的这种做法同狂热地迷信艺术品不需要润饰的做法很相似。”可见二者的共同点在于都不追求完美。故选B。