单选题
The British inventor Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first webpage. It is worth 22 the extraordinary impact that his invention has had on the English language. Everyday words like google, unfriend and app simply didn't exist in 1990. Even more words have had unexpected 23 in meaning in those two decades. If you had mentioned tweeting (小鸟的啁啾声) to an English-speaker a few years ago, he would have 24 you were talking about bird noises, not the use of the microblogging (微博) site Twitter. Long ago, if someone lived online, it didn't mean they spent every 25 minute on the Internet, but that they travelled around with the rail network. And wireless still means, to anyone of a certain age, a radio—not the system for 26 Internet pages without wires. 'The Internet is an amazing 27 for languages,' said David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor. 'Language itself changes slowly but the Internet has 28 the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.' English is a remarkably 29 language, and if words continue to be used for at least five years they generally end up in the Oxford English Dictionary. But less accepted are the peculiar dialects that have 30 among some users. For example, 'LOLcat' is a phonetic, grammatically-incorrect caption that 31 a picture of a cat, like 'I'm in your bed sleeping.' But according to Prof. Crystal, they are all little developments used by a very small number of people—thousands rather than millions. 'Will they be around in 50 years' time? I would be very surprised.'
问答题
【正确答案】considering
【答案解析】[听力原文] The British inventor Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first webpage. It is worth considering the extraordinary impact that his invention has had on the English language. Everyday words like google, unfriend and app simply didn't exist in 1990. Even more words have had unexpected shift in meaning in those two decades. If you had mentioned tweeting (小鸟的啁啾声) to an English-speaker a few years ago, he would have assumed you were talking about bird noises, not the use of the microblogging (微博) site Twitter. Long ago, if someone lived online, it didn't mean they spent every waking minute on the Internet, but that they travelled around with the rail network. And wireless still means, to anyone of a certain age, a radio—not the system for retrieving Internet pages without wires. 'The Internet is an amazing medium for languages,' said David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor. 'Language itself changes slowly but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.' English is a remarkably inclusive language, and if words continue to be used for at least five years they generally end up in the Oxford English Dictionary. But less accepted are the peculiar dialects that have sprung up among some users. For example, 'LOLcat' is a phonetic, grammatically- incorrect caption that accompanies a picture of a cat, like 'I'm in your bed sleeping.' But according to Prof. Crystal, they are all little developments used by a very small number of people—thousands rather than millions. 'Will they be around in 50 years' time? I would be very surprised.' 本句为It is worth doing…的句型，故空格处应该填入动词的-ing形式。considering意为“考虑”。