在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。AnewwordhassuddenlybecomewildlypopularinChina---“tuhao”---1.looselytranslatedmeans“nouveauriche(newrich).”There

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在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。

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 this year.

It's being used to describe ___3.___ from the new People's Daily building to expensive celebrity weddings full of bling-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 “tuhao” seems to reflect the fact ___9.___ in current Chinese society many people laugh at ___10.___ with wealth but are secretly jealous.

 

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1.which

2.have been

3.everything

4.from

5.like

6.unhappy

7.be told

8.creative

9.that

10.those

分 析：
文章介绍在网络上流行的新词“土豪”的含义，和这个词最初的含义，以及通过这个词的流行反映出来的社会问题。

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