[填空题]Language change inevitably leads to variation, and variation
within a speech community often leads to social valuation of
particular features as "good" or "bad". "Good" variants are typically
believed to be characterized logical superiority or venerability, (1)
or either; "bad" variants must then be illogical and/or recent inventions (2)
by the vulgar.
But neither logic nor great age play a significant role in the (3)
labeling of variants. Consider "ain’t", which may be the English word
most is despised by schoolteachers and pundits. Far from being (4)
logical or recent, "ain’t" is a legitimate phonological descendant (5)
of "amn’t", which was the original contraction of "am not". It
isn’t clear how "ain’t" fell in disrepute, but once there, it left an (6)
awkward gap in the s

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[填空题]Language Change

The phenomenon of language change probably attracts more public notice and more (1) (disapprove) than any other linguistic issue. There is a widely held belief that change must mean (2) (deteriorate) and decay. Older people observe the casual speech of the young and conclude that standards have fallen appreciably. It is understandable that many people dislike change, but it is (3) (wise) to condemn all linguistic (4) (modify). It is often felt that contemporary language illustrates the problem at its worst, but this belief is shared by every generation.
There are indeed cases where linguistic change can lead to problems of unintelligibility and (5) (ambiguous), and if change is too rapid there can be major communication problems. But as a rule, the parts of language which ale undergoing change at any given time are (6) (relative) small in comparison

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