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Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expressions. But there is a vital di
Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expressions. But there is a vital di
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2010-06-30
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Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expressions. But there is a vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language, enabling us to say things we could not say before, and bad developments, which subtract from the language by rendering it less precise. A vivid, colorful use of words is not to be confused with mere casual use. The casual use in which some professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin to the fashion of the unfinished work, which has eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the same--that art is enhanced, no hindered, by discipline. You cannot carve satisfactorily in butter.
The corruption of written English has been accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than was common among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.
The modern theatre has played a part in dimming our appreciation of language. Instead of the immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw (who was also very insistent on good pronunciation), audiences are now subjected to streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, to exhibit" lack of communication", and filled with dirty words and grammatical errors of the intellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her reader: "The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-pronounced speech. "Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons in how to speak badly, so that she should fit in better.
But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfully helping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Union shyly put it," In the 1960’s the BBC opened the field to a much wider range of speakers". To hear a BBC disc jockey talking to the latest apelike pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbal garbage. And the prospect seems to be of even worse to come. School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnny’s incoherent grammar, bad spelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius.
By saying "the BBC is the worst traitor"( Line 1 ,Paragraph 4) ,the author means that
选项
A、the BBC employed foreign announcers with nonstandard spoken English.
B、the BBC failed to keep helping to improve the standard of spoken English.
C、the head of the Pronunciation Union thought the pronunciation of BBC announcers was not as good as before.
D、the talking program in BBC is rubbish.
答案
B
解析
文章最后一段说BBC是最糟糕的背叛者是指它没能为使英语口语更加标准继续做出相应的贡献。A文章未提及。C发音协会的领导人只是说BBC的播音员选自更广泛的领域,并未说他们的发音不如从前。D与文意不符,文章只说其中有的节目所用的语言是垃圾。
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