人教版2020高考英语抓纲务本Unit3Lifeinthefuture写作讲与练(含解析)新人教版必修5

Life in the future

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Unit 3Life in the future

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阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

The world we live in is always changing. Technologies and ideas are quickly advancing to keep up with the changing lives of humans. Most people don’t even notice the change but over time, the language is always changing with the world around to either help the understanding of certain situations or make things easier to say while still getting the point across.

Certain words are now being introduced to the English language. These words are seen as ＂teenage slang (俚语)＂ by many adults of the past generations because this new vocabulary is used mainly by younger people. In a new book, John McWhorter talks about new words such as lol, haha, slash, and btw that younger people tend to use when texting. Words such as ＂lol＂ and ＂haha＂, he says, are used just to give sentences a certain mood. But people of older generations do not use these terms because they are just being developed and added to the English language.

In ＂Mother Tongue＂ by Amy Tan, she describes how she talks in certain ways to certain people. This is just a mechanism (机制) made by her brain for whatever makes things the easiest to communicate. Even when talking to her mom, she speaks in broken English because it’s th e easiest way to speak with her mom. This shows that humans will adapt to the language around them and use the easiest form of the language to communicate. So when new, easier styles are being introduced, humans will automatically start using these methods to speak with each other.

Language is always changing. With the fast-paced world, language takes the characteristics of the people using it. So as new generations start to take shape, they bring all sorts of new language to the public that change the language forever. So as the everyday life of the average human changes, so does the language that they use to communicate.

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文章大意：

Paragraph 1：我们生活的世界在不断地变化着，我们所使用的语言亦是如此。Paragraph 2：一些新的词汇正在被引入到英语中，年轻人喜欢使用这些被称为＂青少年俚语＂的词汇与他人交流，以传达一定的感情色彩，但老一代的人却不会使用这些词汇，他们觉得这些词汇是新出现的，还正处于发展变化之中。

Paragraph 3：生活中，人们逐渐适应了所使用的语言，并采用最简单的方式来进行交流。Paragraph 4：随着世界的快速发展和语言使用者日常生活的变化，语言不断呈现出新的面貌。

[话题单词]

1．environment n．环境

2．construction n. 建筑

3．condition n. 情况，状态；条件

4．quality n. 质量

5．convenient adj. 方便的

6．predict v. 预测

7．comfortable adj. 舒适的

8．automatic adj. 自动的