第 21 至 30 題為題組 Textese (also known as chatspeak, texting language, or txt talk) is a term for the abbreviations andslang most commonly used among young people today. The __21__ of textese is largely due to thenecessary brevity of mobile phone text messaging, though its use is also very common on the Internet,including e-mail and instant messaging.  There are no__ 22__ rules for writing textese. However, the common practice is to use single letters,pictures, or numbers to represent whole words. For example, “i ＜3 u” uses the picture 23 of a heart“＜3” for “love,” and the letter “u” to __24__ “you.” For words which have no common abbreviation,textese users often __25__ the vowels from a word, and the reader is forced to interpret a string ofconsonants by re-adding the vowels. Thus, “dictionary” becomes “dctnry,” and “keyboard” becomes“kybrd.” The reader must interpret the __26__ words depending on the context in which it is used, asthere are many examples of words or phrases which use the same abbreviations. So if someone says “ttyl,lol” they probably mean “talk to you later, lots of love” not “talk to you later, laugh out loud,” and ifsomeone says “omg, lol” they most __27__ mean “oh my god, laugh out loud” not “oh my god, lots oflove.”
      The emergence of textese is clearly due to a desire to type less and to communicate more __28__ than one can manage without such shortcuts. Yet it has been severely __29__   as “wrecking ourlanguage.” Some scholars even consider the use of textese as “irritating” and essentially lazy behavior.They’re worried that “sloppy” habits gained while using textese will result in students’ growing __30__ of proper spelling, grammar and punctuation. (AB) quickly (AC) criticized (AD) likely (AE) abbreviated (BC) replace(BD) remove (BE) standard (CD) ignorance (CE) popularity (DE) symbol
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