【題目】Did you know the meaning of a word may change over time? Many English words we know now had different meanings a long time ago. One example is the word nice.

Around the year 1300, nice was first used in English to mean “stupid”. Two hundred years later, nice began to carry a “better” meaning. If people said a book was written nicely, they meant the book was written “clearly” or “carefully”, not “stupidly”. After 1800, nice began to take its meaning like kind or “friendly”. Since then, people have thought of nice as a word with good meanings.

A good change of a word’s meaning like this example of nice is called AMELIORATION. Though we don’t use nice to mean “stupid” any more, it is fun to know how much a word’s meaning can change from its start!

For more examples of AMELIORATION，see next page.

【1】1300 years ago, a “nice person” was believed to be .

A. careful B. friendly

C. stupid D. clever

【2】What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A. What nice used to mean.

B. Why the meaning of nice changed.

C. How long nice has been used.

D. How the meaning of nice changed over time.

【3】AMELIORATION means a word’s meaning .

A. can change from its start

B. changes from bad to good

C. changes from good to bad

D. remains the same over a long time

【4】Which of the following is most likely to appear on the next page?

A. The word terrific used to mean ‘"terrible”, but now it means “excellent”.

B. The word silly used to mean “happy”, but now it means “stupid”.

C. You may wonder why a word’s meaning changes over time.

D. Besides AMELIORATION, a word’s meaning may change in other ways.

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】本文告訴人們，在很久以前很多英語單詞有不同的意思。

【1】C考查細節(jié)理解。由第二段第一句 Around the year 1300, nice was first used in English to mean “stupid”可知，此題應選C

【2】D考查推理判斷。第二段中提到1300年, nice 的意思是stupid，兩百年以后nice的意思是better，1800年后, nice的意思是 kind or friendly，自此以后, nice就用這個意思。由此可知，本段主要講述的是nice意思是怎樣隨著時間變化的。故選D。

【3】B考查細節(jié)理解。由最后一段第二句話Though we don’t use nice to mean “stupid” any more, it is fun to know how much a word’s meaning can change from its start可知，應選B。

【4】A考查推理判斷。由最后一段第一句話A good change of a word’s meaning like this example of nice is called AMELIORATION和最后一句For more examples of AMELIORATION，see next page可知，下一頁講的例子應該和nice的例子相似，故應選A。

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