問題詳情

B.In the book Verbal Hygiene, Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language. She examinesthe practices ___21___ people attempt to regulate language use. Instead of dismissing the practice of “verbal hygiene” as amisguided and ___22___ exercise, she argues that popular discourse about language values, good and bad, right and wrong,serves an important function for those engaged in it.The book consists of a series of case studies dealing with specific ___23___ of verbal hygiene: the regulation of “style”第 3 頁，共 6 頁by editors, the teaching of English grammar in schools, and the movements for and against so-called “politically-correct”language. In each case she argues that verbal hygiene provides a way of ___24___ linguistic phenomena, and that it representsa symbolic attempt to impose order on the social world. ___25___ to linguists, professional language-users of all kinds, and toanyone interested in language and culture, Verbal Hygiene calls for legitimate concerns about language and value to bediscussed, by experts and lay-speakers alike, in a rational and critical spirit.
21.
(A) now that
(B) so that
(C) by which
(D) for which

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.566667
統計：A(3),B(5),C(34),D(16),E(0)

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