It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began.Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes.The director may have said,“Calm down,now.Get your act together.”
Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s.He says The Manchester Guardian used it in 1978.The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together.
Now,this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet.One company even calls its yearly report,“Getting Our Act Together”.
1.Paragraph 1 is written mainly to ________.
A.tell us the Japanese woman’s English is poor
B.lead to the subject of the whole passage
C.tell us it is important to grasp spoken English
D.tell us traveling in the U.S.is very difficult
解析:选B。篇章结构题。第一段由一位日本女士在国内学习了英语之后,在纽约依旧会遭遇语言交流障碍的经历,引出文章的话题。
2.The reason why the woman was not sure that people were speaking English was that ________.
A.they spoke too fast to follow
B.they didn’t want the woman to learn their experience
C.they had some special words and expressions of their own in their field
D.they were from the theater and movie industry
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