IV. Cloze
"Rizz" has been named as Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year, beating out __(21)__ including situationship, prompt, de-influencing and (yes) Swiftie.
"Rizz" was first recorded in 2022, according to Oxford. But it __(22)__ in June,
after actor Tom Holland, in an interview with BuzzFeed, said: "I have no rizz
whatsoever. I have limited rizz."
That __(23)__ a crush of memes, as overall usage __(24)__ by a factor of
about 15 over the previous year, according to Oxford's data. Casper Grathwohl,
president of Oxford Languages, the dictionary division, said this year's choice
reflects the way social media __(25)__ the pace of language change exponentially.
Plus, he said, the word simply has... rizz.
"One of the reasons it's moving from being a __(26)__ social media phrase
( __(27)__ the mainstream is, it's just fun to say." he said.
Oxford's Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from its __(28)__)
updated corpus of more than 22 billion words, gathered from news sources across
the English-speaking world. The selection, according to Oxford, is meant "to reflect
the ethos, mood or preoccupations" of the __(29)__ year.
This year, the public was invited to cut the __(30)__ list in half by weighing
in on four head-to-head thematic pairings. (Some 30,000 people voted, Oxford said.)
Oxford's team then made the final selection. 【題組】24. (A)surging (B)surged (C)surges (D)is surging
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