Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious, colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe cult ( 迷信) of theunfinished work, which haseroded most of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline. Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter. The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago. The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe im
The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both_________
- A、occasionally aim at acertain fluidity
- B、appear to shunperfection
- C、from time to time showregard for the finishing touch
- D、make use of economical shortcuts
正确答案:B
答案解析:有
"Art is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline" (Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_________
- A、an artist's work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standards
- B、an unfinished work is boundto be comparatively inferior
- C、the skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenliness
- D、artistic expression isinhibited by too many rules
正确答案:A
答案解析:有
The author says that thestandard of the spoken English of BBC _________
- A、is the worst among allbroadcasting networks
- B、has taken a turn for theworse since the 1960s
- C、has raised English-speakingup to a new level
- D、is terrible because of a fewpopular disc jockeys
正确答案:C
答案解析:有
Teachers are likely tooverlook the linguistic lapses in their pupils since_________
- A、they fear the children maybecome less coherent
- B、they fear the children maybecome less coherent
- C、more importance is nowattached to oral expression
- D、the children may bediscouraged from expressing their ideas
正确答案:D
答案解析:有
Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _________
- A、is incoherent andlinguistically objectionable
- B、is far too ungrammatical formost people to follow
- C、unintentionally shocks theaudience
- D、tries to hide the author'sintellectual inadequacies
正确答案:A
答案解析:有
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