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【单选题】1 Cool has withstood the fleeting nature of most slang.As a modifier, as a noun, and as a verb, cool has been around a long time. Shakespeare used cool as a verb, and the word later evolved into other parts of speech. It has been used as an adjective since 1728 to describe large sums of money, as in "worth a cool ten million."
2 Cool, meaning "excellent" or "first-rate," was popularized in jazz circles, and jazz musicians and jazz lovers still refer to great works as "cool."As long as MilesDavis’s classic 1957 album,Birth of theCool, remains one of the best-selling jazz recordings of all time, cool will stay cool--it will carry the same weight as it did more than 50 years ago. One reason for the endurance of cool is that its meaning continues to evolve. While it meant "wow!" two decades ago, today it is more often used to mean, "That’s OK with me," as in "I’m cool with that.\
The word fleeting in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A、temporary
B．youthful
C．emotional
D．popular

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
Fleeting means temporary in this context. Clue:~: ... withstood the nature of most slang; ... has been around a long time. Most slang is temporary, meaning it changes rapidly, but cool has lasted a long time. document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>