A new word has suddenly become wildly popular in China —"tuhao" — which loosely translated means "nouveau riche". There have been more than 100 million references to the word "tuhao" on social media since early September.

It's being used to describe everything from the new People's Daily building, to expensive celebrity weddings full of bling, and the new gold-coloured iPhone.

In Chinese "tu" means earth and "hao" means rich. To say someone is tuhao is to imply they come from a poor peasant background, and have made it rich quick — but don't quite have the manners, or sophistication to go along with it. It's like the term "nouveau riche", says Professor Steve Tsang at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies in Nottingham - but has even more negative meanings, suggesting a certain vulgarity(粗俗).

"Tuhao" is actually an old word, dating back perhaps as far as the Southern Dynasty 1,500 years ago,but it has always meant something rather different. During the communist revolution, from the 1920s to early 1950s, it was widely used to refer to landholders and gentry who would bully those beneath them.

This new usage of the term took off in September after a widely-shared joke about a rich, but unhappy man, who goes to a Buddhist monk for advice, expecting to be told to live a more simple life. The monk replies instead with the phrase: "Tuhao, let's be friends!"

Chinese Internet users are highly creative in their use of language, and are constantly inventing, and re-inventing words as a way of getting past censorship(審查) rules. But in this case, its popularity seems to be down to the fact that it expresses China's changing society so well — many people sneer at those with wealth, but are secretly jealous.

1.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Tuhao, a new popular word in China

B. The long history of Tuhao

C. The new usage of Tuhao

D. Tuhao, a newly-invented Chinese word

2.Which of the following may NOT be considered “tuhao”?

A. A vulgar nouveau riche

B. A bully landholder

C. A quick-rich peasant without proper manners

D. A Buddhist monk.

3.The last but one paragraph mainly tells us ______.

A. what the new usage of the word is

B. how the word becomes popular again

C. why the unhappy man went to the Buddhist monk

D. what advice the monk gave the unhappy man

4.What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?

A. respect B. envy

C. laugh D. disbelieve

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文向讀者講述了“土豪”這一新興詞語(yǔ)。

1.A主旨大意題。通讀全文可知，該文向讀者講述了一新興詞語(yǔ)“土豪”，且根據(jù)文章的具體內(nèi)容可知“土豪”一詞并非新造之詞，而要突出其“新興”二字，故該題正確答案為A.

2.D細(xì)節(jié)信息題。根據(jù)文章對(duì)“土豪”的具體定義可知，該詞在共產(chǎn)革命時(shí)指代欺壓弱小的土豪劣紳。在當(dāng)下，其重新流行，卻指代那些來(lái)自于貧困農(nóng)村，而又迅速富起來(lái)的“爆發(fā)戶”，他們往往行為粗俗。而D. A Buddhist monk.佛教僧侶，并非為“土豪”，故該題正確答案為D.

3.B推理判斷題。本題詢問(wèn)的是文章倒數(shù)第二段的段落大意。而該段主要講述的是“土豪”一詞再次流行的起因，故該題正確答案為B.

4.C詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)語(yǔ)境（尤其是“ but are secretly jealous.”）可知，該句句意：“但是對(duì)于‘土豪’這個(gè)詞，它之所以如此流行似乎是因?yàn)�，歸根結(jié)底，它正是中國(guó)社會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)型的一個(gè)縮影——許多人對(duì)這些擁有財(cái)富的人表面‘鄙夷’，暗中卻非常妒忌�！�，故該詞應(yīng)為表示貶義的動(dòng)詞C. laugh嘲笑。

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