Question

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案写在下面题号后的横线上。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。

front,Chinese,stay,end,change,get， together,borrow,for,short,name,out

The English language is different from any other language. Yet English words do not 1      the same. As time goes by,it is always 2      The world is changing,too. People need new words 3      new inventions and new ideas. Different words come into use or old words are used in a new way.

English can change by 4      words from other languages. The word “ tomato ” was borrowed from Mexico,the word “ coffee ” from Turkey, “ tea ” from 5      ，and so on. Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries,too. New words are also made by putting two words 6      . The words

“strawberry”，“ postman” and “blackboard” are made up of two words.

Sometimes new words are 7      forms of old words. The word “photo” was made from‘‘photograph ” by cutting off the 8      of the long word. The word “plane” was made by cutting off the 9      part of “ airplane ”，while “ smog ” was made by using only the first two letters of “smoke” and cutting off the front part of “frog”. And products can become new words. Our “sandwich” was named after a man 10      Sandwich,and “jelly (果冻）”was a name made up by the company that first made this product.

1.        2.        3.        4.        5.       

6.        7.        8.        9.        10.       

Answer 1

 1. stay 2. changing 3. for 4. borrowing 5. China

6. together 7. short 8. end 9. front 10. named