课时知能训练 Ⅰ.完形填空 You must burst into laughter when you hear your friends express their wishes to you by saying:“Good good study,day day up”,which is a most interesting sentence.When I first read the similar sentence “Long time no see” from an American friend's Email,I also laughed.I thought it was a perfect __1__ of Chinglish.Later on,my friend told me that it is a standard American __2__.I was too surprised.Her words could not __3__ me at all.So I did a search on www.google,com.To my surprise,there are over 60 thousand web pages __4__“long time no see”.This sentence has been __5__ used in Emails,newspapers or any other __6__ places.Though it is informal,it is part of the language that Americans use daily.__7__,if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word,the software will tell you that the grammar needs correcting. Nobody knows the __8__ of this Chinglish sentence.Some people __9__ that it came from Charlie Chan's movies.In the 1930s,Hollywood movie makers successfully __10__ a famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens,__11__ liked to teach Americans some Chinese __12__.“Long time no see” was his trademark.Soon it became a __13__phrase. Some scholars __14__ America to a huge pot of stew.All kinds of culture are mixed together,and they change the color and taste of each other.Language is usually the first thing to be __15__ in the mixed stew. |