(安徽省马鞍山市2009届高三第三次教学质量检测)

“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect  36 of Chinglish.

 Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a  37  English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American   38  . I was too thrilled to believe her. Her words could not 39__ me at all. So I did a   40  on Google. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages  41 "Long time no see". This sentence has been 42   used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible place. Though it is 43   informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily.  44, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the   45    will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected. Nobody knows the 46   of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully 47   a world wide famous Chinese detective named "Charlie Chan" on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom 48   quoting Confucius. "Long time no see" was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, "Long time no see" became a 49 phrase in the real world 50 the popularity of these movies.

  Some people  51   America to a huge melting pot（大熔炉）. All kinds of culture are  52 in the pot together, and they  53  the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic（少数种族） group in the United States, is also  54   some changes to the stew（混杂物）! Language is usually the first thing to be  55   in the mixed pot.

36. A. example                     B. sign                 C. word                D. change

37. A. damaged                   B. perfected         C. learned            D. ruined

38. A. custom                      B. greeting          C. habit                D. proverb

39. A. persuade           B. encourage              C. convince          D. believe

40. A. job                      B. research          C. survey            D. search

41. A. containing        B. printing            C. publishing        D. expressing

42. A. widely                 B. hardly                  C. seldom            D. deeply

43. A. lots of                 B. plenty of          C. lot of                D. sort of

44. A. Therefore           B. Though            C. However         D. Anyhow

45. A. hardware                   B. software           C. operator          D. speaker

46. A. use                            B. origin               C. expression              D. meaning

47. A. created               B. published         C. did                   D. discovered

48. A. by                       B. in                         C. with                  D. of

49. A. ordinary             B. rare                 C. modern            D. popular

50. A. in spite of            B. as to                C. thanks to         D. but for

51. A. compare                    B. add                  C. join                  D. owe

52. A. joined                 B. mixed               C. piled                D. done

53. A. improve                     B. change                C. lower               D. promote

54. A. owing                  B. putting             C. taking                  D. contributing

55. A. influenced           B. mentioned           C. used                      D. considered