专题16 综合测试（十六）（测）（含解析）
I．语法填空（15分）
【2014届山西省太原五中4月考】A new word has suddenly become wildly popular in China---“tuhao” --- ___1___ loosely translated means “nouveau riche (new rich).” There ___2___ (be) more than 100 million references to the word “tuhao” on social media since early September t his year.
It's being used to describe ___3___ from the new People's Daily building, to expensive celebrity weddings full of blin g-bling （惹人注目的昂贵首饰）, and the new gold-coloured iPhone.
In Chinese “tu” means earth, and “hao” means rich. To say someone is a tuhao is to imply they come ___4___ a poor peasant background, and have made it rich quick, but don't quite have the manners, or taste to go along with it. It's ___5___ the term “nouveau riche”, but has even more negative meaning, suggesting a certain vulgarity(庸俗).
This new usage of the term took off in September after a widely-shared joke about a rich, but ___6___ (happy) man. He goes to a Buddhist monk for advice and expects to ___7___ (tell) to live a more simple life. But the monk replies instead with the phrase: "Tuhao, let's be friends!"
Chinese Internet users are highly ___8___ (create) in their use of language, and are constantly inventing, and re-inventing words for better expressions of some social phenomena. In this case, the popularity of the word
