今天的句子：
In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.
Mr. McWhorter’s academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom,” for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.
思考题：
According to McWhorter, the decline of formal English ________.
[A] is inevitable in radical education reforms
[B] is but all too natural in language development
[C] has caused the controversy over the counter-culture
[D] brought about changes in public attitudes in the 1960s
词汇突破：
1. controversialist 具有争议的人物
2. liberal and conservative views 自由派和保守派的观点
3. sees A as responsible for B： 认为A是B的原因
4. academic speciality：学术专长
5. see A to be natural ：认为A是正常的
6. see A to be no more regrettable than B : 认为A和B一样不令人遗憾
7.the loss of the case-endings of Old English 古英语格结尾的丢失
（我们知道现代英语中有主格和宾格；古英语中还有阴格和阳格等各种格；古时候的英语都可以叫“格格”了。总之就是古英语的一种语言现象。）
8. but all too： 再…不过了；相当于very;
9. inevitable 不可避免；radical 激进的
10.bring about 造成
11. controversy over A 对于A的争议； 这里的over= about
12. counter-culture 反文化的运动
第一句：
In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.
切分：
1. In his latest book,
2.Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care,
3.John McWhorter sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.
4. , a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views,
参考译文：John McWhorter 是一位语言学家也是一位有争议的人，他既有自由派的观点又有保守派的观点。他认为1960年代反文化运动的胜利造成了正式英语的衰退。
第二句：
Mr. McWhorter’s academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom,” for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.
切分：
1.Mr. McWhorter’s academic speciality is language history and change,
2. and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom,” for example, to be natural
3.and (to be) no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.
（注意并列引起的省略，考场上最好补全了再理解。）
the gradual disappearance of “whom,”就是 the decline of formal English的例子。
参考译文：McWhorter先生的学术专长是语言史和语言的改变，而且他认为比如像whom这样表达的消失，是自然而然的事情；就和古英语中格结尾的消失一样不令人遗憾。
思考题：
According to McWhorter, the decline of formal English ________.
根据According to McWhorter,（Mcwhorter 认为）和the decline of formal English我从原文中为大家找了这两个句子；因为在原文相应的段落区间中只有这两个句子是Mcwhorter的观点且包含有the decline of formal English；
题干一定要和选项放在一起看！
1. the decline of formal English is inevitable in radical education reforms
正式英语的衰退在激进的教育改革中是不可避免的。
（这个选项在原文对应句中没有谈到。）
2. the decline of formal English is but all too natural in language development
正式英语的衰退在语言的发展中是再自然不过的事情了。
（这个选项对应第二句的第二部分）
he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom,” for example, to be natural
这就是正确选项；
3. the decline of formal English has caused the controversy over the counter-culture
正式英语的衰退导致了对于反文化运动的争议。
错误有两个：
（1）原文没有the controversy over the counter-culture
（2）原文中正式英语的衰退是结果，这里被写成了原因；
4. the decline of formal English brought about changes in public attitudes in the 1960s
正式英语的衰退造成了1960年代公众态度的改变。
changes in public attitudes in the 1960s
可以等于 the triumph of 1960s counter-culture；
但是因果被颠倒了；
所以判定为错误！
AB句背诵：
A句：McWhorter sees the gradual disappearance of “whom,” for example, to be natural.
B句：According to McWhorter, the decline of formal English is but all too natural in language development.
(不知道这样讲真题是不是清晰一些，给我说一声呗。）
明天的句子：
Lack of definitive proof that a technology is harmful does not mean the technology is safe, yet the wireless industry has succeeded in selling this logical fallacy to the world. The upshot is that, over the past 30 years, billions of people around the world have been subjected to a public-health experiment: use a mobile phone today, find out later if it causes genetic damage or cancer.
思考题：
The public -health experiment is invalid for the absence of certain evidence.
