Choose the best answer to complete the passage.
The English language is different from any
36 language. Yet English words do not
37 the same. It is always
38 . People need new words
39 new inventions and new ideas. Different words come into use or older words are used
40 a new way.English can
41 by borrowing words from other languages. The word “tomato” was borrowed from Mexico, the word “coffee” came from Turkey, and “tea” from
42 and so on. Now new space and science words
43 from other countries, too. New words are also made by adding two words
44 . The words “strawberry”, “postman” and “blackboard” are made up of two parts.
Sometimes, new words are
45 forms of old words. The word “photo” was made from “photograph” by cutting off the
46 of the long word. The word “plane” was made by cutting off the
47 part of “airplane”.
48 “smog” was made by using only the first two letters of “smoke” and cutting off the front part of “fog”. And products can become new words. Our “sandwich” was named after
49 named Sandwich, and “jelly(果冻)” was a name made up by the company that
50 made this product.
| 小题1: | | A．other | B．others | C．another | D．else |
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| 小题2: | | A．leave | B．change | C．stay | D．use |
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| 小题3: | | A．keeping | B．changing | C．kept | D．changed |
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| 小题6: | | A．change | B．changed | C．turns | D．turned |
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| 小题7: | | A．India | B．America | C．Germany | D．China |
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| 小题8: | | A．are borrowing | B．are being borrowed | C．borrow | D．borrows |
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| 小题9: | | A．alone | B．out | C．together | D．outside |
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| 小题10: | | A．longer | B．middle | C．never | D．short |
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| 小题11: | | A．beginning | B．end | C．middle | D．front |
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| 小题12: | | A．back | B．middle | C．front | D．end |
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| 小题13: | | A．While | B．During | C．When | D．as |
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| 小题14: | | A．a man | B．a kind of food | C．a company | D．a place |
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| 小题15: | | A．first | B．last | C．again | D．once |
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