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[单项选择]Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their eiders and it is in their speech, as it always was, that most of the verbal changes originate. But listening critically to their talk I hear hardly any new words. It is all a matter of using old words in a new way and then copying each other, for much as they wish to speak differently from their parents, they want even more to speak like people of their own age. A new usage once took time to spread, but now a pop star can falsify it across the world in hours. Of course it is not only the young who like to use the latest in-word. While they are describing their idols as smashing, great or cosmic, their parents and the more discriminating of the younger set are also groping for words of praise that are at once apt and fashionable. However, their choice of splendid, brilliant, fantastic and so on will in turn be slightly dimmed by over-use and need replacement.
Magic is a theme that bas regularly supplied words of phrase (an
A. They use words invented by pop stars.
B. They copy the speech of their contemporaries.
C. They give words new meanings.
D. They invent words that older people cannot understan
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W: John, why won’t you give the young girl the job
M: Well, she is too confident. She has a know-all sort of attitude.
How does the man think of the young girl （）
A. She is too selfish.
B. She doesn’t seem to be active.
C. She lacks the basic knowledge for the job.
D. She is too sure of herself.
[填空题]With more and more young people getting into trouble with the law, social workers are very busy. They are trying to keep (36) out of jail and in school.
One way to do this is to keep those young people busy with a (37) activity. In some places, social workers set up programs to direct (38) energy from the drawing of graffiti (涂鸦) to the (39) arts.
In other places, basketball or baseball teams are set up. Sometimes the young people are (40) into patrol groups. Then, they are given the job of protecting older citizens that they might (41) have robbed and attacked. Social workers set up these youth programs to meet the needs of a (42) area.
Social workers are highly trained people and are good at solving community problems. They know how to set up (43) and get things started. However, (44) . These voluntary people encourage the young artists, train the sports teams, and oversee the pat
