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A new word has suddenly become wildly popular in China---“tuhao” --- _____ loosely translated means “nouveau riche (new rich).” There _____ (be) more than 100 million references to the word “tuhao” on social media since early September this year.
It's being used to describe _____ 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 _____ 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 ______ 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 _____ (happy) man. He goes to a Buddhist monk for advice and expects to _____ (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 _____ (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 ______ , in current Chinese society, many people laugh at _____ with wealth, but are secretly jealous.

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