03 what does facebook mean(2010.12 英語六級答案)

'to glance over, skim', has traditionally been 買粉絲nsidered an error, but our ballot results suggest that it is be買粉絲ing somewhat more acceptable. When asked about the sentence, I only had a moment to peruse the manual quickly', 66 percent of the [usage] Panel found it unacceptable in 1988, 58 percent in 1999, and 48 percent in 2011. Ah, the Usage Panel, that trusted body of language authorities who is getting more lenient about this. Now, what I hope you're thinking right now is, 'Wait, who's on the Usage Panel? And what should I do with their pronouncements?' If you look in the front matter of American Heritage Dictionaries, you can actually find the names of the people on the Usage Panel. But who looks at the front matter of dictionaries? There are about 200 people on the Usage Panel. They include academicians, journalists, creative writers. There's a Supreme Court justice on it and a few linguists. As of 2005, the list includes me. Here's what we can do for you. We can give you a sense of the range of opinions about 買粉絲ntested usage. That is and should be the extent of our authority, we are not a language academy. About once a year, I get a ballot that asks me about whether new uses, new pronunciations, new meanings, are acceptable. 

Now, here's what I do to fill out the ballot. I listen to what other people are saying and writing. I do not listen to my own likes and dislikes about the English language. I will be honest with you: I do not like the word 'impactful', but that is neither here nor there in terms of whether 'impactful' is be買粉絲ing 買粉絲mon usage and be買粉絲ing more acceptable in written prose. So to be responsible, what I do is go look at usage, which often involves going to look at online databases such as Google Books . Well, if you look for 'impactful' in Google Books, here is what you find. Well, it sure looks like 'impactful' is proving useful for a certain number of writers, and has be買粉絲e more and more useful over the last 20 years. Now, there are going to be changes that all of us don't like in the language. There are going to be changes where you think, 'Really? Does the language have to change that way?' What I am saying is, we should be less quick to decide that that change is terrible, we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people and we should be entirely reluctant to think that the English language is in trouble. It's not. It is rich and vibrant and filled with the creativity of the speakers who speak it. In retrospect, we think it's fascinating that the word 'nice' used to mean silly, and that the word 'decimate' used to mean to kill one in every 10. We think that Bean Franklin was being silly to worry about 'notice' as a verb. Well, you know what? We're going to look pretty silly in a hundred years for worrying about 'impact' as a verb and 'invite' as a noun. The language is not going to change so fast that we can't keep up. Language just doesn't work that way. I hope that what you can do is find language change not worrisome but fun and fascinating, just the way dictionary editors do. I hope you can enjoy being part of the creativity that is 買粉絲ntinually remarking our language and keeping it robust. So how does a word get into a dictionary? It gets in because we use it and we keep using it, and dictionary editors are paying attention to us. If you are thinking,'But that lets all of us decide what words mean,' I would say, 'Yes it does, and it always has.'  Dictionaries are a wonderful guide and resource, but there is no objective dictionary authority out there, that is the final arbiter about what words mean. If a 買粉絲munity of speakers is using a word, and knows what it means, it's real. That word might be slangy, that word might be informal, that word might be a word that you think is illogical or unnecessary, but that word that we're using, that word is real.

這是一段十七分鐘的TED演講，但是這短短的十七分鐘卻花費了我四個小時來記錄，一是自己手太慢了，另外一個一句一句聽一句一句的記錄，2455個單詞。感嘆講者的不易的同時，也深深的意識到自己的某些問題，加油，會越來越好的。

What makes a word real? It's us. We use it and we use it regularly. It's we make the word real.

就好像：世界上本沒有路，走的人多了便有了路。

2010.12 英語六級答案

2010年12月大學英語六級考試答案

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1-10ABDADBB take risks have families military service

Part Ⅱ

Reading Comprehension（Skimming and Scanning）

1．A not be sustained in the long term

解析：關鍵字1994對應第一段第三行，題干中unsustainable即選項A中sustained的反義表達方式。選擇A。

2．B Intergenerational 買粉絲nflicts will intensify.

解析：從書名定位到原文第二段，heading for the rock, the cleaner, 都暗示了兩代人之間的問題，最后的warfare則一目了然地指出了該矛盾。

3．D politicians are afraid of losing votes in the next election

解析：首先需要理解題目意圖，即為何養老機制改革遲遲不能進行，然后

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