【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ⒆ A way B road C street D lane⒇ A love B importance C money D evidence三、閱讀理解(每小題2分，共20分) Language is , and should be, a living things, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. But there is a vital distinction between good developmenst, which add to the language, enabling us to say things we could not say before, and bad developmenst, which subtract from the language by rendering it less precise. A vivacious, colourful use of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind of slovenliness in which some professionals deliberately indulge is prehaps akin to the cult of the unfinished work ,which has eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the samethat art is enhanced, not hindered, by discpline. You cannot carve satisfactorily in butter. The corruption of writing Englihs has been acpanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English . We speak very much less well than was mon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago. The modern theatre has played a baneful part in dimming our appreciation of langrage. Instead of the immensely artculate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who was also very insistent on good pronunciation), audiences are now srbjected to streams of barely literate tirvia, often designed, only too well, to exhibit’lack of munication’ ,and larded with the obscenities and grammatical errors of the intellectually impoverished. Impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers:’The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctlyenunciated speech,’ Alas, no more. One youny actress was recently reported to be taking lessons in how to speak badly, so that she should fit in better.But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfully helping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddedly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unit coyly put it:’In the 1960’s the BBC opened the field to a much wider range of speakers.’ To hear a BBC disc jockey talling to the latest apelike pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbal squalor. And the prospect seems to be of even worse to e . School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnny’s incoherent grammar, atrocious spelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius.1. ‘Art is enhanced, not hindered, by discipline’(line8)means . A. an artist’s work will be finer if he observes certain aesthetic standards.B. an unfinished work is bound to be paratively inferiorC. the skill of certain atrsts conceals their slovenlinessD. artistic expression is inhibited by too many rules.2. What effect is the modern theatre said to have had on the language?It has . an important reforming factor B. made us more aware of subtleties of languageC. been a wele and positive influenceD. had a ruinous effect3. A certain actress is said to have taken lessons because . A she has been too accustomed to leading rolesB. her delivery was too refined for the parts she had to playC. she could hardlly make herself heard by the audienceD. her stlye of speech had been too vulgar for modern audiences.4. Teachers are likey to overlook linguistic lapse in their pupils since . A. they find that chilren to longer respond to this kind of discipline nowadaysB. they fear the children may bee less cokerentC. more importance is now attached to oral expressionD. the children may be discouraged from giving vent to their own ideas.5. Which of the following can be chosen as a title for this passage? A. Language Should Be A Living Thing B. People’s Appreciation of Langua