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【译林湖南版】2011高考英语一轮复习提能训练 Module 4 Unit 2 Sporting eventsⅠ.完形填空 A “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 __1__ of Chinglish. Obviously，it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a __2__ English grammar and structure！Later on，my friend told me that it is a standard American __3__.I was too thrilled to believe her.Her words couldn’t __4__ me at all.So I did a search on google.com.To my surprise，there are over 60 thousand webpages __5__ “Long time no see”．This sentence has been widely used in emails，letters，newspapers，movies，books，or any other possible place.Though it’s sort of informal，it is part of the language that Americans use daily.__6__，if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word，the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected. Nobody knows the __7__ of this Chinglish sentence.Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies.In 1930s，Hollywood moviemakers successfully __8__ a worldwide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens.Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting(引用)Confucius.“Long time no see” was his trademark.Soon after Charlie Chan，“Long time no see” became a __9__ phrase in the real world thanks to the popularity of these movies. | 
