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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式(不多于3个单词)。 A new bus in Singapore is making headlines for a strange r...
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式(不多于3个单词)。
A new bus in Singapore is making headlines for a strange reason. It’s 1. is written on the signs inside the bus that has people talking. The signs 2. (write) in Singlish!
Quite different from the English which is familiar 3.us, the signs read, for example, “Here cannot go in” instead of “You cannot go in from here”.
English is one of the 4. (office) languages in Singapore. But the English Singaporeans use in their daily lives 5. (be) far from standard English and earns it the name “Singlish”. In Singapore, migrants from many countries, China, India and Malaysia 6. (include), all speak their own versions of “English”. The New York Times calls Singlish a “patchwork (拼凑品)”.
Although it may seem interesting, Singlish is worrying Singapore's government. It thinks that Singlish may hurt people’s ability 7. (speak) standard English and make it hard for 8. (they) to communicate with 9. (foreign). The government even started the Speak Good English Movement in 2000.
But the movement didn’t seem to work very well, especially among young people. The youth think Singlish is cool and 10.way to show they are Singaporeans.
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