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　　Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum asking what“PK”meant．

　　“My family has been watching the Super Girl singing competition TV program．My little daughter asked me what PK means, but I had no idea,”explained the puzzled father．

　　To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know that item．

　　In such Internet games,“PK”is short for“Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other．

　　In the case of the“Super Girl”singing competition,“PK”was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking．

　　Like this puzzled father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students composition using Internet jargon(行话)difficult to understand．

　　A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write up compositions with colloquial(口语的)language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargon that she didn't understand．

　　“My GG”came back this summer from college．He told me I've grown up to be a PLMM'：I love to FB with him together; he always took me to the KPM, went one composition．”

　　“GG”means Ge Ge(Chinese pinyin for brother)．“PLMM”refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei(beautiful sister)．“FB”means“to corrupt”．“KPM”is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonalds．

　　While some specialists welcome Internet jargon as a new development in language, teachers are worried that too much use of such language might lead students away from the“right”usages．Parents especially worry that their children might not do well in language tests because of the use of Internet language．

　　Such as those mixed feelings are, the conciseness and liveliness of Internet language continues to attract Internet users for making convenient communications．

　　If you do not even know what a Kong Long(dinosaur, referring to ugly-looking female)or a Qing Wa(frog, referring to ugly-looking male)is, then you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!

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　　American cities are similar to other cities around the world; In every country．Cities reflect the values of the culture．American cities are changing, just as American society is changing．

　　After Wolld Wa Ⅱ,the population of most large American cities decreased; bowever．The populaton In omthe Sun Belt cities increased．Los Angeles and Houston are eitit where populatfon shife(转移)to and from the oity reflect the changing values of Amorican society．In the late 1940s and early 1950s,city residents(居民)became wealthier．They had more children so they needed more space, They moved out of their apartments in the city to buy their own homes．They bought houses in the suburbs(郊区)．

　　Now things are changing．The children of the people who left the cities in the 1950s are now adults．Many, unlike their parents, want to live in the cities．They continue to move to Sun Belt cities and older ones of the Northeast and Midwest．Many young professionals are moving back into city．They prefer the city to the burbs because their jobs are there; or they jus enjoy the excitement and possibii that the city offers．

　　his people shift is bringing problems as well as benefits．Countless poot people must leave their apartments in the city because the owners want to sell the buildings or make apartments for sale instead of for rent．In the 1950s, many poor people did not have enough money to move to the suburbs; now many of these same people do not have enough money to stay in the cities．

　　Only a few years ago, people though that the older American cities were dying．Some city residents now see a bright, new fiture, Others see only problems and comfiels the thing is sure many dying cities are alive again．