短文填空(三) 新加坡英语“kiasu”介绍+科幻作家刘慈欣
A [2020·原创]
Do you know the word kiasu? If not, google it. You'll get more than a million hits and learn that, usually associated(联系) with Singaporeans, it means “to be afraid of losing out”. You'll come across words such as kiasu parents, kiasu companies and even kiasu apps.
Just 40 years ago, the word first spread among men in the Singapore army. But before long, it had entered everyday Singapore English.
The first formal use of kiasu happened in 1990 in a government document(公文). Since then it has often been seen in Singapore newspapers. It spread to some other countries in south-east Asia, too. In 1992 Malaysia's New Straits Times wrote of “kiasu parents providing their children with much more materials”.
Ten years after its first use in print, the word was used worldwide. Since around 2000, kiasu has appeared in British newspapers. The Guardian, in 2001, reported how this pursuit(追求) of material wealth and the strong need to be No.1 has created the Singaporean, and again reported in 2004 that Singaporeans' value shows how much they feel the need to stay ahead of everyone else and that they have a word for it: kiasu.
The word entered the Urban Dictionary in 2003 and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2007. In the same year, Singaporean restaurant Kiasu opened in London.
The turning point on kiasu's road to the mainstream came with its being used in documents and newspapers. Who dared to use kiasu in a government document? Who first used it in a newspaper? It was these people who pushed kiasu into the mainstream.
根据上面短文内容填空。
1.If you google kiasu, you'll find that it is usually associated with , which means “ ”.
2.40 years ago, the men used the word first, but it was in 1990 that kiasu in a government document for the first time. From then on, people could often see the word in Singapore newspapers.
3.The word became worldwide in , and since then, kiasu has appeared in British newspapers. The Guardian reported about kiasu in 2001 and 2004.
4.Kiasu is collected as a word by two . Also in 2007, a Singaporean restaurant named
opened in London.
5.Being used was the turning point on kiasu's road to the mainstream. And the people who used it that way .
B [2020·原创]
Perhaps no one knows the power of imagination(想象) better than Chinese sci-fi(科幻小说) writer Liu Cixin. Until years ago, Liu worked full-time as a computer engineer. He only wrote science fiction after work. But it was during that time that Liu's imagination took flight. He did what he might never have the chance to do in real life—wander(漫步) in space, fight with aliens, and visit planets light years away. But even with such a powerful imagination, Liu, 55, probably hadn't thought of becoming the first Asian to win the Hugo Award, science fiction's highest prize, in 2015. Perhaps neither did he think that Barack Obama would read his novel The Three-Body Problem, nor that in Washington DC, he would win the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. It's the first time a Chinese writer has ever won the award.
In The Three-Body Problem, for example, Liu tells a tale of aliens coming to the Earth. And in The Wandering Earth, Liu shows us the day when our planet comes to an end and humans have to look for a new place to live.
However, Liu's works, which aren't simply daydreams, are popular among the people who are unsure of the future. “People are locked in this small box of reality(现实), but science fiction is a way to open our minds,” said Liu.
根据上面短文内容填空。
