China’s new term, tuhao, may be in next year’s Oxford English Dictionary. The wo

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China’s new term, tuhao, may be in next year’s Oxford English Dictionary. The word caught the attention of the dictionary"s editing team after BBC’s recent program on influential Chinese words. “If its influence continues, it is very likely to appear on our updated list of words,” said Julie Kleeman, project manager with the editing team.
In Chinese tu means uncouth (笨拙的) and hao means rich. It has traditionally been referred to rich people who throw their weight around in China’s countryside. The word became more popular in September with the launch of Apple’s new gold-colored iPhone, which is loved by China’s rich people. The color became known as “tuhao gold.” The word is now also used by the online community to refer to people who have the cash but lack the class to go with it. Kleeman also mentioned two other Chinese words — dama and hukou — which may also make it into the dictionary.
People can have an intuitive (直观的) grasp of the meanings if they see pinyin, Kleeman said, adding that people avoid using an English word to keep the original meaning.
“We have nearly 120 Chinese-linked words now in Oxford English Dictionary,” she said. Some of them are: Guanxi, which means “connection”; Taikonaut, a mix of taikong, meaning outer space, and astronaut.
The new words will be first uploaded on the official website before the dictionaries arrive. The online version is also renewed every three months. “It at least broke our old rules. It used to take 10 years to include a new word but now we keep the pace with the time,” according to a statement from ex-chief-editor John Simpson.
小题1:Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

A．Dama and hukou have made it into Oxford English dictionary.

B．Some influential Chinese words appeared on one of BBC’s recent programs.

C．tuhao refers to people who have both the cash and the class.

D．John Simpson thinks that it is not good to break old rules.

小题2:What does the underlined part in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Give orders to others.	B．Get ready to help others.
C．Go on a diet.	D．Put on weight.

小题3:Tuhao becomes more popular in September partly because ______.

A．it is very likely to appear in Oxford English Dictionary

B．it is often used by the online community

C．people use Chinese pinyin to keep the original meaning

D．Apple launched a new gold-colored iPhone

小题4:The main idea of the text is that ______.

A．tuhao may end up in Oxford English Dictionary

B．sometimes pinyin makes Chinese words better understood

C．tuhao has a new meaning at the present time

D．Oxford English Dictionary Includes new words faster than before

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:A

解析

试题分析：“土豪”要收录入牛津词典啦，相似的还有诸如“大妈”、“关系”等等。中国的词汇进入英语并不是什么稀奇事，英语国家的人们希望词汇保持它原来的意义。
小题1:细节理解题。由“ The word caught the attention of the dictionary"s editing team after BBC’s recent program on influential Chinese words. ”可知BBC 的节目对汉语词汇产生了影响。故选B。
小题2:推理判断题。“土豪”传统意义上指的是有钱人、喜欢发号施令的家伙。Give orders to others. 对别人发号施令； Get ready to help others.准备好去帮助别人； Go on a diet. 节食、减肥； Put on weight.长胖。故选A。
小题3:细节理解题。由“The word became more popular in September with the launch of Apple’s new gold-colored iPhone, which is loved by China’s rich people. ”可知9月苹果发布“土豪金”让“土豪”变得更流行。故选D。
小题4:主旨大意题。文章讲了“土豪”这个汉语词汇要被收录进牛津辞典的事情。故选A。

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Unemployment in Europe has recently hit record highs. Although Denmark has been protected from economic problems thanks to its low public debt, qualified (有资格的) professionals are still finding it tough to get a job. Danish marketing firm Reputation Copenhagen has come up with a way of helping academics get noticed -- putting them on display (展示) in storefront windows.
Many highly-trained professionals, ranging from former CEOs to lawyers and tax experts, are currently finding it increasingly difficult to find proper employment on the Danish job market. Some of them have been trying for years, leaving their resumes (简历) with dozens of companies, without ever hearing back from them, and are now at a point where they are willing to try anything, even putting themselves in display windows like goods, hoping to get noticed.
Alexander Peitersen, managing director of Reputation Copenhagen, came up with the idea of using his company"s office as a storefront for the campaign (活动), as there are many businesses nearby that might be interested in the talents on display. So he set up a small desk, put up the “an available academic is sitting here” sign and asked the unemployed to just sit in the windows like goods. It seems like a pretty desperate measure, but at least it works. According to the agency"s website, three of the jobseekers in their window display got a job in a day or two.
Peitersen says he came up with the idea after realizing human resource managers get hundreds of job applications every day, which look more or less the same, and that creative thinking is required in order to increase the chances of finding employment. Apart from companies interested in qualified job-seekers, the campaign has also attracted the attention of both local and international media.
小题1:Which of the following words can be used to describe Peitersen?

A．Independent.

B．Creative.

C．Sensitive.

D．Cautious.

小题2:Some job-seekers are willing to put themselves in the windows to display in that ______.

A．they think it is fashionable

B．their parents ask them to

C．it’s increasingly difficult to get hired

D．they find it’s interesting

小题3:It can be Inferred that ______.

A．no companies show interest in the qualified job-seekers in the windows

B．both local and international media don"t agree with the campaign

C．human resource managers have to reply to hundreds of applicants

D．to some degree the window displays help people find jobs

小题4:What is the text mainly about?

A．Job-seekers are displayed in the windows hoping to get hired.

B．The rate of unemployment in Europe has recently become hitter.

C．It is hard for qualified professionals to get a job.

D．Denmark has avoided economic problems due to its low public debt.

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All it took was a slice of Xinjiang cake to spark heated debates online over China"s policy on ethnic minorities (少数民族) .
Since Monday, qiegao (cut cake) has been a trending topic on Sina Weibo, China’s main Twitter-like microblogging service.
The cake was a reference to Xinjiang’s famed nut cake, sometimes known by its old Turkic name baklava, a popular pastry across Central Asia and the Middle East. In Xinjiang, they are sold by Uygur vendors on tricycles who are known to charge dubious prices depending on the time and season.
The ethnic flare-up started after the Yueyang police from Hunan province posted a message on their official Weibo account. It reported a dispute in Pingjiang county over an overpriced piece of nut cake between a Xinjiang Uygur vendor and a villager named "Ling".
Villager Ling got into a fight with a Uygur due to a misunderstanding. The verbal dispute eventually escalated into a fight and then a mass fight. As a result, two people were injured and Xinjiang nut cakes worth about 160,000 yuan (US$25,000) were destroyed. The total damage was worth 200,000 yuan which included a broken motorcycle and injuries to people. Local police have detained Ling. The 16 Uygur sellers were dully compensated and sent back to Xinjiang.
"Yueyang police incident" quickly became one of the most popular topics on Weibo. Yueyang police removed the post shortly after. As of Tuesday night, the topic was still amassing more than 66,000 hits.
The incident is just one of many similar cases of ethnic tensions across China, notably in Xinjiang province, where deeply entrenched social and racial frictions between the dominant ethnic Han Chinese and minority Uygur Muslims occasionally spark violence. Many Uygurs living in major Chinese cities are viewed by locals as thieves, crooks and even terrorists.
小题1:Which of the following is true?

A．The dispute is between a Xinjiang Uygur vendor and a policeman.

B．Nut cake is a popular pastry across East Asia and the Middle East.

C．The prices of Baklava will change according to the time and season.

D．The demand of the 16 Uygur sellers were refused and they were sent back to Xinjiang.

小题2:How much did the broken motorcycle cost？

A．160,000 yuan

B．200,000 yuan

C．40,000yuan

D．We don’t know

小题3:What’s the best title of the passage?

A．World"s most expensive baklava

B．Ethnic tensions across China

C．Pay attention to the Uygurs

D．Misunderstanding caused a fight

小题4:What can we infer from the passage?

A．Yueyang police are afraid of the Xinjiang Uygur vendor

B．It’s not the only ethnic tension across China,

C．Many Uygurs living in major Chinese cities are viewed by locals as thieves, crooks and even terrorists.

D．Villager Ling got into a fight with a Uygur due to a misunderstanding.

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The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar, continued into their second week, Wednesday, as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggle to craft a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, the global agreement on climate change that expires at the end of this month.
The negotiations are deadlocked （陷入僵局）over demands by poorer nations for financial help in coping with climate change.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on delegates at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to speed up their work on an agreement to address a warming planet.
“Let us be under no illusion（幻想）, this is a crisis, a threat to us all, our economies, our security and the well-being of our children and those who will come after," he said. "No one is immune to climate change, rich or poor.”
Delegates from nearly 200 countries --- rich and poor --- are in Doha to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 global climate change agreement that expires （到期）at the end of this month, and to begin to forge a new agreement to replace it.
Two issues block the way forward. Developing countries are demanding that industrialized nations fulfill their pledges(保证)under Kyoto to reduce their climate-changing industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and to put new, larger emission curbs on the table.
The developing nations, led by China, are also insisting that rich nations provide more aid to poorer countries to help them cope with the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and more violent storms.
In Doha Wednesday, Tim Gore, a climate change policy advisor for Oxfam International, a confederation of groups working on social justice issues, applauded efforts by England, Germany and Sweden to increase their climate aid and expects other nations to follow.
“Those announcements are truly welcome. And they shine a spotlight on those that have remained silent: the U.S., Canada, Japan, even Australia," Gore said. "But we need to be very clear as well that those types of announcements made in press conferences can be no substitute for clear commitments in the text that poor countries have come here to negotiate.”
小题1:What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．China plays an important role in The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar.

B．The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar, continued into their second week, Wednesday.

C．Developing countries want rich nations to pay for climate change.

D．Ban Ki-moon called on delegates at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to speed up their work on an agreement to address a warming planet.

小题2:What did United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Climate change will do harm to all the countries in the world.

B．There is no hope to deal with the problem.

C．Illusion（幻想）is a crisis, a threat to us all.

D．Ban Ki-moon called on delegates to cope with a warming planet.

小题3:What does the underlined word in Paragraph Five forge mean?

A．put aside

B．deal with

C．call off

D．work out

小题4:Which of the following is Not true?

A．Climate change includes rising sea levels and more violent storms.

B．All the industrialized nations will carry out their promises under Kyoto to reduce their climate-changing industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and to put new, larger emission curbs on the table.

C．Tim Gore thought highly of the efforts by England, Germany and Sweden to increase their climate aid and expects other nations to follow.

D．The U.S., Canada, Japan, even Australia didn’t make announcements to be responsible for the climate changes.

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Most students, when asked about their ideal graduation gift, would probably reply, “A car”, or “Money for a deposit on a house”. Cai Kaiyuan, 21, made a different choice. As a graduation gift to himself, he decided to work as a volunteer teacher in a remote village in Tibet.
Cai, a senior majoring in electrical engineering at Huan Railway Professional Technology College, originally planned to cycle from Sichuan to Tibet. During his journey, Cai’s idea for a different graduation gift to himself began to take shape. “I did not know beforehand what the journey would mean to me. I just want to gain a unique experience and have pleasure in appreciating the view there,” he said.
It turned out cycling on a plateau was extremely challenging. And it has kept changing his outlook on life. Cai’s fingers even became frostbitten while cycling up a 5008-meter-high mountain, where temperatures often dropped to 18 below zero. At night, the ice covered the road and he fell off his bike three times. The lack of oxygen made him feel dizzy and weak. “At the most serious moment, I felt that my life was on the line,” said Cai.
However, he also gained something unexpected. At Ya’an, a city in Sichuan, he met a group of tourists who are also university students. A girl called Wu Ling told him that she planned to work as a teacher in a primary school in Tibet after her journey. He was impressed by the idea as she looked slender and weak.
It was not until he reached a family-run hotel in Shigatse that Cai’s spirits began to rise. The hotel manager’s two daughters enjoyed talking with him. The kids asked about his experiences on his trip, and showed him the beautiful local lakes. “They told me that they always liked to talk to guests, as they wanted to improve their Mandarin,” he said, “Their parents and many locals can only speak Tibetan.”
Cai was touched by the girls’ story. Their situation is tough and the local people have little chance to learn Mandarin because the schools are short of teachers. “I want to do something to improve the situation for kids like them,” said Cai. His parents finally gave their agreement and his teachers also supported him.
小题1:According to the passage, Cai Kaiyuan’s graduation gift to himself is _________.

A．to have money for a deposit on a house

B．to travel by cycling from Sichuan to Tibet

C．to own a new car and marry a slender girl

D．to work as a volunteer teacher in Tibetan school

小题2:What words can be used to describe Cai’s journey to Tibet?

A．unique and pleasant	B．challenging but rewarding
C．relaxing but unexpected	D．freezing cold and boring

小题3:The underlined phrase “on the line” in the third paragraph means “ ____________”.

A．in a dilemma	B．making a phone call
C．at risk	D．very painful

小题4:The purpose of writing this passage is to ____________.

A．tell us about an unusual graduation gift

B．introduce a dangerous journey to us

C．give advice on how to travel to Tibet

D．encourage us to be a teacher in Tibet

小题5:Which of the followings is NOT the reason for Cai to make his decision?

A．He met Wu Ling and was impressed by her plan.

B．His parents and teachers persuaded him to go to Tibet.

C．He was moved by the kid’s desire to improve their Mandarin.

D．A lack of teachers makes the local people have little chance to learn.

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Mainland couples who give birth to a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaking the family planning policy，a senior official has warned．
As more women flock to Hong Kong to give birth to their second child，Zhang Feng，family planning department director of Guangdong Province，stressed that this violated China"s policies．
“And those who are government employees will even be dismissed from their posts．”he said．
“It doesn’t matter if they give birth to their second child on the mainland or in other countries and regions , they have violated the country’s policies and the probince’s regulations”.
He said that some families had been punished in the past few months after having a second in Hong Kong , but gave no details .
Zhang made his remarks when a Hong Kong newspaper carried a controversial notice claiming residents’ medical services had been affected by the growing number of mainland women who arrive in the city to give birth and gain fight of abode (居住)there.
According to statistics revealed by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government，about 88，000 babies were born in Hong Kong in 2010，but more than 41，000 or 47 percent，were to mainland couples，including a large number from Guangdong．
Hong Kong has limited the number of mainland women permitted to give birth in the city at 34，000 this year．
The issue also has caused calls for an amendment（修正）to Hong Kong"s Basic Law so that babies born to mainland women are no longer granted permanent fight of abode．
“I support Hong Kong government"s decision to reduce or limit the number for mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong．”Zhang said．
China introduced its family planning policy in 1979 to limit births in the world"s most populous nation，although the rules have been relaxed in recent years．
小题1:Which of the following is true?

A．Those who give birth to a second child in Hong Kong will be fined．

B．Many government employees have been dismissed from their posts．

C．Zhang Feng is family planning department director of Guangdong Province．

D．It doesn"t matter if they give birth to their second child on the mainland．

小题2:What does the word “violated” mean in the second paragraph?

A．went against

B．was obeyed

C．was for

D．was dismissed

小题3:Zhang Feng said that .

A．few families had been punished after having a second child in China

B．about 88，000 babies were born in Hong Kong in 2010

C．the residents" medical services in Hong Kong had been affected

D．he agreed to reduce or limit the number for mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong

小题4:From the passage we can infer .

A．in 2010 most of the babies born in Hong Kong belonged to mainland couples

B．the number of mainland women permitted to give birth in Hong Kong has been reduced

C．babies born to mainland women in Hong Kong can"t get permanent right of abode now

D．the family planning policy in China is as strict as before

小题5:Which is NOT the reason why some people want to give birth to a second child in Hong Kong?

A．They want to gain right of abode（居住）there for their babies．

B．They want to escape being punished for breaking the family planning policy．

C．They want to cause calls for an amendment（修正）to Hong Kong"s Basic Law．

D．They want their babies to enjoy the good medical services in Hong Kong．

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