Question

“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 typical _36__ of Chinglish.

Obviously it is a word-by-word literal（字面上的）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 delighted to believe her. Her words could not  39  me at all. So I did a  40 on Google. Com.. 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, moves, 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 (引用) Confucius. “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon “Long time on see” became a   49   phrase in America 50   the popularity of these movies.

    Some people 51  America to a huge melting pot (熔爐). 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 group in the United States, is also 54 some changes to be 55 in the mixed pot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7.A.widely            B. hardly         C. seldom       D. search

8.A.lots of             B. plenty of      C. lots of        D. sort of

9.A.Unfortunately     B. Luckily         C. However      D. Suddenly

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

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

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

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

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

15.A.because           B. as to           C. thanks to     D. but for

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

17.A.joined            B. mixed            C. compiled     D. done

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

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

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

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.C

5.D

6.A

7.A

8.D

9.C

10.B

11.B

12.A

13.A

14.D

15.C

16.A

17.B

18.B

19.D

20.A

【解析】

1.A.  作者認(rèn)為long time no see (好久不見) 是一個(gè)典型的中國式英語的例子。

2.D.  ruined在此處是“糟糕的”意思。

3.B.  這是一個(gè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的美國問候語，前面Chinese greetings有提示。

4.C.  她的話不能使我信服，convince 是“使 …… 信服”的意思。

5.D.  google.com是一個(gè)網(wǎng)站的名稱，作者在網(wǎng)上搜索long time no see這個(gè)短語。

6.A.  有6萬多個(gè)網(wǎng)頁包含了long time no see這個(gè)短語。

7.A.  從上句話可以看出,這個(gè)問候語使用廣泛。

8.D.  sort of 相當(dāng)于a little/bit意思是“有點(diǎn)兒……”，后面常跟形容詞。

9.C.  前面講到這個(gè)問候語使用廣泛，而Word軟件卻把它當(dāng)作一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤的句子來處理，前后意義轉(zhuǎn)折。

10.B.  按照常識來判斷Microsoft Word是一個(gè)計(jì)算機(jī)軟件。

11.B.  從后面的came from可以推斷，前一句話講的意思是“無人知道這個(gè)短語的來歷”。

12.A.  create在此是“塑造（電影、文學(xué)形象）”之意。

13.A.  by是“通過”的意思，在這里用作狀語。

14.D.  這些電影放映后不久，long time no see在美國成了一個(gè)流行用語。

15.C.  thanks to是“由于”的意思，to為介詞，其后要接名詞或動名詞。

16.A.  compare…to…意為“把……比作……”。

17.B.  這里的意思是說各種文化在美國這個(gè)大熔爐里混合。

18.B.  各種文化相互之間都進(jìn)行改變。

19.D.  contribute… to…意為“向……貢獻(xiàn)出……”。

20.A.  在這個(gè)多元文化的大熔爐里，語言通常是第一個(gè)受到影響的。