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A、had learned
B、learned
C、have learned
D、will have learned
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We can learn from the passage that______.
A. Reading is just a way of knowing new words
B. A good reader must learn more new words
C. A good reader can think before, while and after reading
D. Reading takes a lot of time
We don't understand the passage ______ there are a few new words in it.
A．and
B．unless
C．because
We can infer from the passage that ______.
A．everyone can find familiar words in any other languages
B．English was an immigrant language to the New World
C．The necessity of communication gives rise to word borrowing
D．Columbus successfully made the people understand each other
We dont understand the passage _______there are few new words in it.
A.Because
B.Though
C.Since
Fill in the blanks with the right words or phrases. Change the form where necessary. promotion customers take advantage of potential demand target approach feedback contact search for 1. Nowadays people often ________ information on the internet. 2. There is a high ________ for skilled workers in the manufacturing business. 3. She is quite satisfied with her employees who have already reached their sales ________. 4. We are doing a special ________ of our new products. 5. We need more ________ from the consumers in order to improve our goods. 6. The manager believes that Africa is a ________market for their new products. 7. Many stores ________ the holidays to promote their goods. 8. The company views “________ satisfaction” as its first rule of service. 9. ________ me tomorrow to discuss more details of our marketing plan. 10. We all appreciate her ________ to the problem.
We all believe that words of a language evolve (进化) gradually over the centuries, rather as animals and plants evolve over millions of years. Sometimes the change is so slight. as to be almost unnoticeable--finger, for example, means the same today as it did 1,000 years ago. Other words have changed out of all recognition. For example, modem English "lord", a person with high social positions, comes from Old English "hlaford". It used to mean "guardian of the bread", a person who protects the bread. But not all word meanings change like this. Just as new and different types of animals and plants can be reproduced, we can call completely new words into being.
Anyone can make a word. The difficult part is to make it stay in the language. To stand the best chance it should probably relate to a particular and fairly specialized subject. That cuts down the number of people who need to agree to use it. Chemists are often having to find expressions for new findings. Once that is achieved, there may be a chance for wider recognition if the expression comes to be of interest to the general public.
Ordinary people can make long-lasting words, though. In 1924, a competition (比赛) was held to make a word for a drinker of illegal liquor (非法出售的酒). A prize of US $200 was offered, and there were reportedly over 25,000 suggestions. The winners were Henry Irving Dale and Kate L. Butler, who both came up with "scofflaw". And that word exists in American English to this day, in the rather wider sense "someone who disobeys the law".
What can we learn from the text？
A．It is the duty of specialists to make new words.
B．People are encouraged to make new words.
C．Words evolve faster than animals and plants.
D．New words are usually made by chemists.
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
As everyone knows, words constantly take on new meanings. Since these do not necessarily, nor even usually, take the place of the old ones, we should picture this process as the analogy of a tree throwing out new branches which themselves throw out subordinate branches. The new branches sometimes overshadow and kill the old one but by no means always. We shall again and again find the earliest senses of a word flourishing for centuries despite a vast overgrowth of later senses which might be expected to kill them.
When a word has several meanings historical circumstances often, make one of them dominant during a particular period. Thus "station" is now more likely to mean a railway station than anything else; "speculation" more likely to bear its financial sense than any other. Until this century "plane" had as its dominant meaning "a flat surface" or "a carpenter's tool to make a surface smooth", but the meaning "an aeroplane" is dominant now. The dominant sense of a word lies uppermost in our minds. Whenever we meet the word, our natural impulse is to give it that sense. We are often deceived. To an old author the word may mean something different.
One of my aims is to make the reading of old books easy as far as certain words are concerned. If we read an old poem with insufficient regard for the change of the dictionary meanings of words we won't be able to understand the poem the old author intended. And to avoid this, knowledge is necessary.
We see good words or good senses of words losing their edge or more rarely getting a new edge that serves some different purpose. "Verbicide", the murder of a word, happens in many ways. Inflation is the commonest: those who taught us to say "awfully" for "very", "tremendous" for "great", and "unthinkable" for "undesirable" were verbicides.
I should be glad if I sent any reader away with a sense of responsibility to the language. It is unnecessary to think we can do nothing about it. Our conversation will have little effect, but if we get into print -- perhaps especially if we are leader-writers or reporters -- we can help to strengthen or weaken some disastrous word, can encourage a good and resist a bad Americanism. For many things the press prints today will be taken up by a great mass of people in a few years.
In the first paragraph the author believes ______.
A．only old words take on new meanings
B．a tree throws out new branches as the words pick up new meanings
C．words obtain new meanings from time to time
D．it is possible for the old words to lose their old senses
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