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四、阅读理解 1 If youve been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English. Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are talking online ─ many of them are talking at the same time. Its fast: trying talking to six people once. Its convenient: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, concentration and quick fingers. And it requires very simple language. Theres neither time nor space for explanations. Why waste precious time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB (=be right back) will do? Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI (=pardon me for jumping in). Interested in whom youre talking to? Type A/S/L, the common request to know your pals age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a reply from your pal. If something makes you laugh, say youre OTF (=on the floor), or LOL (=laughing out loud), or join the two into ROTFL (=rolling on the floor laughing). And when its time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG (=got to go) or TTYL (=talk to you later). People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the shift key and use capitals. Punctuation is going too. 1(D) When people are online, they talk by ______. A using body language B drawing some strange pictures C making phone calls D making use of an especially short form of English 2(A) The Internet makes many people in the world ______. A talking at the same time B discover their friends and relatives C pick out good things to buy D find out about some problems in society 3(C) The sentence “Theres neither time nor space for explanations” means that ______. A people should use words properly B people should know what time it is when t