Question

A new word has suddenly become wildly popular in China —"tuhao" — which loosely translated means "nouveau riche". There have been more than 100 million references to the word "tuhao" on social media since early September.

It's being used to describe everything from the new People's Daily building, to expensive celebrity weddings full of bling, and the new gold-coloured iPhone.

In Chinese "tu" means earth and "hao" means rich. To say someone is tuhao is to imply they come from a poor peasant background, and have made it rich quick — but don't quite have the manners, or sophistication to go along with it. It's like the term "nouveau riche", says Professor Steve Tsang at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies in Nottingham - but has even more negative meanings, suggesting a certain vulgarity(粗俗).

"Tuhao" is actually an old word, dating back perhaps as far as the Southern Dynasty 1,500 years ago,but it has always meant something rather different. During the communist revolution, from the 1920s to early 1950s, it was widely used to refer to landholders and gentry who would bully those beneath them.

This new usage of the term took off in September after a widely-shared joke about a rich, but unhappy man, who goes to a Buddhist monk for advice, expecting to be told to live a more simple life. The monk replies instead with the phrase: "Tuhao, let's be friends!"

Chinese Internet users are highly creative in their use of language, and are constantly inventing, and re-inventing words as a way of getting past censorship(审查) rules. But in this case, its popularity seems to be down to the fact that it expresses China's changing society so well — many people sneer at those with wealth, but are secretly jealous.

1.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Tuhao, a new popular word in China

B. The long history of Tuhao

C. The new usage of Tuhao

D. Tuhao, a newly-invented Chinese word

2.Which of the following may NOT be considered “tuhao”?

A. A vulgar nouveau riche

B. A bully landholder

C. A quick-rich peasant without proper manners

D. A Buddhist monk.

3.The last but one paragraph mainly tells us ______.

A. what the new usage of the word is

B. how the word becomes popular again

C. why the unhappy man went to the Buddhist monk

D. what advice the monk gave the unhappy man

4.What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?

A. respect B. envy

C. laugh D. disbelieve

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文向读者讲述了“土豪”这一新兴词语。

1.A主旨大意题。通读全文可知，该文向读者讲述了一新兴词语“土豪”，且根据文章的具体内容可知“土豪”一词并非新造之词，而要突出其“新兴”二字，故该题正确答案为A.

2.D细节信息题。根据文章对“土豪”的具体定义可知，该词在共产革命时指代欺压弱小的土豪劣绅。在当下，其重新流行，却指代那些来自于贫困农村，而又迅速富起来的“爆发户”，他们往往行为粗俗。而D. A Buddhist monk.佛教僧侣，并非为“土豪”，故该题正确答案为D.

3.B推理判断题。本题询问的是文章倒数第二段的段落大意。而该段主要讲述的是“土豪”一词再次流行的起因，故该题正确答案为B.

4.C词义猜测题。根据语境（尤其是“ but are secretly jealous.”）可知，该句句意：“但是对于‘土豪’这个词，它之所以如此流行似乎是因为，归根结底，它正是中国社会转型的一个缩影——许多人对这些拥有财富的人表面‘鄙夷’，暗中却非常妒忌。”，故该词应为表示贬义的动词C. laugh嘲笑。

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