阅读短文,选择正确答案。Canyouunderstandthebeginningofthisessay?"MysmmrholswrCWOT.B4weusd2go2NY2CmybrohisGF&3kdsFTF."TheScottishteacherwhoreceiveditinclasshadnoideawhatthegirlwhowroteit
阅读短文,选择正确答案。
Canyouunderstandthebeginningofthisessay?
"MysmmrholswrCWOT.B4weusd2go2NY2CmybrohisGF&3kdsFTF."TheScottishteacherwho
receiveditinclasshadnoideawhatthegirlwhowroteitmeant.TheessaywaswritteninaformofEnglish
usedinmobilephonetextmessages.Textmessages(alsocalledshortmessages)throughmobilephonesbecame
verypopularinthelate1990s.Atfirstmobilephonecompaniesthoughtthattextmessagingwouldbeagood
waytosendmessagestocustomersbutcustomersquicklybegantousethetextmessagingservicetosend
messagestoeachother.Teenagersinparticularenjoyedusingtextmessagingandtheybegantocreateanew
languageformessagescalledtexting.
Atextmessageisusually160characters(字节)includinglettersspacesandnumberssomessagesmust
bekeptshort.Inadditiontypingonthesmallkeypadofamobilephoneisdifficultsoit'scommontomake
wordsshorter.Intextingasingleletterornumbercanrepresentawordlike"r"for"are""u"for"you"and
"2"for"to".Severalletterscanalsorepresentaphraselike"lol"for"laughingoutloud".Anotherwayoftexting
isleavingoutlettersinawordlikespelling"please"as"pls".
Someparentsandteachersworrythattextingwillmakechildrenbadspellersandbadwriters.Thestudent
whowrotethisessayatthetopofthispassagesaidwritingthatwaywasmorecomfortableforher.(Theessay
said"Mysummerholidayswereacompletewasteoftime.BeforeweusedtogotoNewYorktoseemy
brotherhisgirlfriendandtheirthreekidsfacetoface.")
Noteveryoneagreesthattextingisabadthing.Someexpertssaylanguagesalwayschange.Thisisjust
anotherwayforEnglishtochange.Otherpeoplebelievetextingwilldisappearsoon.Newtechnologyforvoice
messagemaysoonmaketextmessageathingofthepast.
1.Whatisthewriter'sopinionoftextmessaging?
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A.Itisfunandeasytodo.
B.Thewriterdoesnotgiveanopinion.
C.Itisnotbadforchildren.
D.Itwillmakechildrenbadwriters.
2.Whichwayoftextingi