【单选题】

The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded, in agreement when he said, "High schoolEnglish teachers are not doing their jobs." He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how his grade 9 level had been establisheD、

My topic is not standards nor its decline. What the speaker was really (26) is that he is no longer young; he has been (27) for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult.
My (28) is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following (29) is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons (30) our dissatisfaction.BeforeEnglish became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language (31) .But since then,English teachers have been under constant (32) .
The complainers think they have hit upon an (33) ideA、As their own command of the language (34) , they notice that young people do not have this same ability. (35) that their own ability has developed through the years, they (36) the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this (37) . To the eyes and ears of (38) adults the language of the young always seems (39) .
Since this concern about the (40) and fall of theEnglish language is not (41) as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and (42) to today’s young people, it naturally (43) that today’sEnglish teachers cannot be doing their jobs. (44) , young people would not commit (45) against the language.
A．saying
B．speaking
C．uttering
D．singing