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題干：Americansnolongerexpectpublicfigures,whetherinspeechorinwriting,tocommandtheEnglishlanguagewithskillandgift.Nordotheyaspiretosuchcommandthemselves.Inhislatestbook,DoingOurOwnThing：TheDegradationofLanguageandMusicandWhyWeShouldLike,Care，JohnMcWhorter，alinguistandcontroversialistofmixedliberalandconservativeviews，seesthetriumphof1960scounter-cultureasresponsibleforthedeclineofformalEnglish.Blamingthepermissive1960sisnothingnew,butthisisnotyetanothercriticismagainstthedeclineineducation.Mr.McWhorter'sacademicspecialtyislanguagehistoryandchange,andheseesthegradualdisappearanceof"whom",forexample,tobenaturalandnomoreregrettablethanthelossofthecase-endingsofOldEnglish.Butthecultoftheauthenticandthepersonal,“doingourownthing"，hasspeltthedeathofformalspeech,writing,poetryandmusic.Whileeventhemodestlyeducatedsoughtanelevatedtonewhentheyputpentopaperbeforethe1960s,eventhemostwellregardedwritingsincethenhassoughttocapturespokenEnglishonthepage.Equally，inpoetry，thehighlypersonal，performativegenreistheonlyformthatcouldclaimrealliveliness.InbothoralandwrittenEnglish，talkingistriumphingoverspeaking,spontaneityovercraft.Illustratedwithanentertainingarrayofexamplesfrombothhighandlowculture，thetrendthatMr.McWhorterdocumentsisunmistakable.Butitislessclear,totakethequestionofhissubtitle,whyweshould,like，care.Asalinguist,heacknowledgesthatallvarietiesofhumanlanguage,includingnon-standardoneslikeBlackEnglish，canbepowerfullyexpressive-thereexistsnolanguageordialectintheworldthatcannotconveycomplexideas.Heisnotarguing,asmanydo,thatwecannolongerthinkstraightbecausewedonottalkproper.Russianshaveadeeplovefortheirownlanguageandcarrylargechunksofmemorizedpoetryintheirheads，whileItalianpoliticianstendtoelaboratespeechthatwouldseemold-fashionedtomostEnglish-speakers.Mr.McWhorteracknowledgesthatformallanguageisnotstrictlynecessary,andproposesnoradicaleducationalreforms-heisreallygrievingoverthelossofsomethingbeautifulmorethanuseful.WenowtakeourEnglish"onpaperplatesinsteadofchina”.Ashame,perhaps,butprobablyaninevitableone.
題目：According to the last paragraph, “paper plates” is to "china" as_____. - A 、“temporary" is to "permanent"
- B 、"radical" is to "conservative"
- C 、"functional" is to "artistic"
- D 、“humble" is to "noble"
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推理題。最后一段后兩句提到，我們現在用“紙盤子”而非"瓷盤子”盛著我們的英語大餐。 真是慚愧啊，但很可能已無法避免。顯然，作者這里用了比喻的修辭手法，其用意還是為了 說明主題：正式英語的退化。上文提到，Mcwhoter為那些美好事物而不是實用品的消逝而哀 嘆?？梢?，“紙盤子"對應于實用品，而“瓷盤子”對應于美好事物。因此C選項正確。
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