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【题目】Many English students did not realize that phrases such as “get off of” and “she was stood” were grammatically incorrect. It’s feared that the use of social networking websites and mobile phone text messaging is damaging children’s literacy(读写) skills.

Ministers have also complained that many young people spend too much time playing video games and watching TV instead of reading books.In the lastest study,Cambridge Assessment,one of the country’s biggest examination organizations,surveyed more than 2,000teenagers in 26 English secondary schools.

They were presented with various phrases and asked to mark out those with non-standard English. Only 41 percent realized that an adjective had been used in place of an adverb in the phrase “come quick”.

Fewer than six-in-ten pupils correctly identified “get off of” and “she was stood” as ungrammatical. Around a quarter of students failed to spot errors in the phrases “ it wasn’t me who done it” , “ couldn’t hardly move”, “Tom had gotten cold” and “three mile”. At least a fifth failed to recognize that “more easier” was incorrect. And most one-in-ten students failed to spot the use of a double negative in the phrase “I didn’t break no vase”

Ian McNeilly,from the National Association for the Teaching of English, told the Times Educational Supplement, “For a lot of people—not just young people—their daily use of English is in new media,where non-standerd grammatical constuctions are more acceptable.That’s unavoidably going to lead to an increased lack of awareness of more standard constructions.”

Dr Beth Black,author of the latest report,said,”It is possible that these less well-recognized nonstandard English forms will find their way into standard English,especially given the view that teenagers are linguistic innovators(语言创新者) who bring about change in standard dialect”.

【1】 According to the first paragraph, what do people worry about?

A.Text message cost students too much money

B.students can’t use standard English grammer

C.Students are annoyed through social networking websites.

D.Students become violent by playing video games

【2】 From the result of the survey, about 10 percent of the students failed to___.

A.understand the correct use of the tense

B.know the proper place of an adjective

C.know the use of the adverb

D.find the misuse of a double negative

【3】 According to Ian McNeilly, which of the following caused the spread of non-standard grammer?

A.Poeple use English in new media

B.People spend little time reading books

C.People didn’t learning grammar well at school

D.Poeple are too careless in their writing

【4】 From the last paragraph, we can infer that___.

A.standard English will probably be destroyed by teenagers

B.teenagers are likely to become experts in English language

C.non-standard English forms will probably be widely accepted

D.people will probably not use the standard English grammar

Answer 1

【答案】【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】【1】细节理解题。由第一段可知人们担心的是学生的读写能力下降，所以选B。

【2】细节理解题。由第四段中的“And almost one-in-ten students failed to spot the use of a double negative...”可知选项D正确。

【3】细节理解题。由倒数第二段中的“For a lot of people—not just young people—their daily use of English is in new media”可知选A。

【4】推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“It is possible that these less well-recognized nonstandard English forms will find their way into standard English”可知那些非正规的形式将来也可能会成为标准英语，故可能会被广泛接受。