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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

DU Lala is the hottest career coach in the country. The fictional character in the acclaimed novel Du La La’s Promotion shows others how to take the high road to success in a multinational company. But does her story describe a real or distorted picture of work life? The answer is as complicated as office life itself.
Over one million copies of the book have been sold since its release in 2007. Go Lala Go!, a movie adaptation of the novel set to hit cinemas next weekend, has stirred up even more interest in the story. The film stars Xu Jinglei and Stanley Huang, but fans seem to be more excited about seeing the story unfold on the big screen.
According to a recent sina.com survey, 45 percent of the 6,810 netizens polled said they have drawn career pointers from the novel. Other office novels, such as In and Out of the Loop, Win and Lose and Drowning and Floating, seem to have been received with similar interest.
“These books show me the life of white collars, and they teach me career rules and jargon that are not offered in class,” said Zhang Shanshan, a 22-year-old senior at Beijing Forestry University. Zhang says the competition, humor and office gossip in the book intrigued her. “I can’t wait to embark on my own career,” she said.
The popularity of office novels does not surprise Chen Ning, a senior career consultant at Zhaopin.com. “Novels about office fights and struggles satisfy the psychological demands of an ordinary office worker,” Chen said. “The leading characters face great pressure, fierce competition and an uncertain future. This is what really happens in many readers’ daily life.”
Li Ke, the author of Du Lala’s Promotion, has been stressing the significance of her fiction. “I want to provide real and useful common sense, knowledge and experience to office workers,” Li told the Qianjiang Evening News last year.
Recent graduates say they have found the basic work principles highlighted in the novel to be instructive. “If these books had been published five years earlier, I might have avoided some problems,” said Xu Jun, an HR manager at Guangqi Honda Automobile Company. “They often discuss basic office principles, which are relevant for staff working under the middle management level. They also help readers to see the importance of basic problem solving and organizational skills.”
But some veteran employees warn that the novels are not always realistic. They say this is especially true of the characters. “The protagonists appear to be unbeatable,” said Hou Zhendong, an HR manager at General Electric. “Du Lala’s team leader quit in an irresponsible way; her boss is inept; and the staff around her is either stupid or overly-sophisticated. Du stands out in emergencies and makes all the right decisions. The truth is, real-life colleagues are not that polarized（截然對(duì)立）,” Hou said. “You seldom get to negotiate your salary with a big boss. And, most of the time, you make wrong decisions far more than you make correct ones.”
The career principles in the books are also of limited use. “Most of the stories happen in Fortune 500 companies with a long history. Their cultures are well-established, and their rules are scientific,” Hou said. “But if you work for a small foreign company, or a local enterprise, some principles are useless.”
Liu Rui, a project manager at IBM, suggests fans of these books focus on the little bits of wisdom they provide. “The novels give rookies（新手） some inspiration,” he said. “They emphasize the importance of observation, practice and self-examination. These tips are precious and universally true.”

  1. 1.

    Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Recent graduates can learn a lot of useful career principles from the novel.
    2. B.
      The best novel shows readers how to be promoted in various companies.
    3. C.
      The book Go Lala Go! Sells very well.
    4. D.
      The movie adaptation of the novel will be a massive hit at the box-office in China.
  2. 2.

    What can be inferred from the passage?

    1. A.
      Du Lala’s story reflects the true office life.
    2. B.
      Go Lala Go! Enjoys more popularity than other office novels, such as In and Out of the Loop, Win and Lose and Drowning and Floating.
    3. C.
      Some people argue that the story is a bit polarized.
    4. D.
      Both rookies and veteran employees are fond of Go Lala Go!.
  3. 3.

    Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

    1. A.
      The Life of White Collars
    2. B.
      The Hottest Career Coach
    3. C.
      How to Promote in Company
    4. D.
      Go Lala Go! — Office Life Not All Fairytale Drama

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The latest research suggests that the key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success. Instead, it’s purposeful practice. Top performers spend more hours practising their craft. It you wanted to picture how a typical genius might develop, you’d take a girl who possessed a slightly above average language ability. It wouldn’t have to be a big talent, just enough so that she might gain some sense of distinction. Then you would want her to meet, say, a novelist, who coincidentally shared some similar qualities. Maybe the writer was from the same town, had the same family background, or shared the same birthday.
This contact would give the girl a vision of her future self. It would hive her some idea of a fascinating circle who might someday join. It would also help if one of her parents died when she was 12, giving her a strong sense of insecurity and fuelling a desperate need for success. Armed with this ambition, she would read novels and life stories of writers without end. This would give her a primary knowledge of her field. She’s be able to see new writing in deeper ways and quickly understand its inner workings.
Then she would practise writing. Her practice would be slow, painstaking and error-focused. By practising in this way, he delays the automatizing process. Her mind wants to turn conscious, newly learned skills into unconscious. Automatically performed skills. By practising slowly, by breaking skills down into tiny parts and repeating, she forces the brain to internalize a better pattern of performance. Then she would find an adviser who would provide a constant stream of feedback, viewing her performance form the outside, correcting the smallest errors, pushing her to take on tougher challenges. By now she is redoing problems—how do I get characters into a room—dozens and dozens of times. She is establishing habits of thought she can call upon in order to understand or solve future problems.
The primary quality our young writer possesses is not some mysterious genius. It’s the ability to develop a purposeful, laborious and boring practice routine; the latest research takes some of the magic out of great achievement. But it underlines a fact that is often neglected. Public discussion is affected by genetics and what we’re “hard-wired” to do. And it’s true that genes play a role in our capabilities. But the brain is also very plastic. We construct ourselves through behaviour.

  1. 1.

    The passage mainly deals with          .

    1. A.
      the function of I.Q. in cultivating a writer
    2. B.
      the relationship between genius and success
    3. C.
      the decisive factor in making a genius
    4. D.
      the way of gaining some sense of distinction
  2. 2.

    By reading novels and writers’ stories, the girl could         .

    1. A.
      come to understand the inner structure of writing
    2. B.
      join a fascinating circle of writers someday
    3. C.
      share with a novelist her likes and dislikes
    4. D.
      learn from the living examples to establish a sense of security
  3. 3.

    In the girl’s long painstaking training process, ________.

    1. A.
      her adviser forms a primary challenging force to her success.
    2. B.
      her writing turns into an automatic pattern of performance
    3. C.
      she acquires the magic of some great achievement
    4. D.
      she comes to realize she is “hard-wired” to write
  4. 4.

    What can be concluded from the passage?

    1. A.
      A fuelling ambition plays a leading role in one’s success
    2. B.
      A responsible adviser is more important than the knowledge of writing.
    3. C.
      As to the growth of a genius, I.Q. Doesn’t matter, but just his/her effort.
    4. D.
      What really matters is what you do rather than who you are.

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From early times, man has been interested in art. People have often worked together to collect and save the world’s art treasures.
Fine art treasures from many countries are kept in an art museum called the Louvre (盧浮宮) in Paris, France. The works of art have been collected by the people of France over many centuries.
The Louvre has not always been a museum. The first building was a fort (要塞)with high walls and a round tower. It had a moat (護(hù)城河) to keep out the enemies. Over the years, the number of buildings around the fort grew. By 1350,the fort was no longer needed and became a palace home for French kings and queens.
During times of peace, new treasures were brought in. During times of war, many treasures were stolen, and the buildings were damaged(毀損).
When Francis I became King of France in the year of 1515,he brought in artists from many countries, and one of them was Leonardo da Vinci from Italy, whose Mona Lisa is the best-known painting in the museum today.
In 1793, the Louvre became a public museum, just as it is now. It is a place where art treasures have been saved for everyone to enjoy.

  1. 1.

    The above passage is about       

    1. A.
      the world-famous painting Mona Lisa
    2. B.
      a king of France by the name of Francis I
    3. C.
      a grand art museum in the capital of France
    4. D.
      an artist named Leonardo da Vinci
  2. 2.

    It seems to be necessary for great art works to be kept in public museum because    .

    1. A.
      only in this way will they not be stolen
    2. B.
      it gives everyone a chance to enjoy them
    3. C.
      it helps people to remember the life of French kings and queens
    4. D.
      it tells people what meaningful work the French kings did in the past
  3. 3.

    The Louver became an art museum        

    1. A.
      in the year of 1350
    2. B.
      in 1515 when Francis I became King of France
    3. C.
      in the seventeenth century
    4. D.
      in the nineties of the eighteenth century
  4. 4.

    Though the story does not say so, it makes you think        

    1. A.
      lots of people pay visits to the Louvre
    2. B.
      Leonardo da Vinci was once the keeper of the museum
    3. C.
      the Louvre was only open to the artists from other countries
    4. D.
      the Louvre became a public museum at the beginning of the last century

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A cheap drug that can stop bleeding in people recently injured in an accident could potentially save the lives of tens of thousands worldwide, a new study says.
Researchers studied the effects of tranexamic acid （凝血酸）, or TXA, in more than 10,000 injured people in 40 countries who received the drug within 8 hours of being injured. The study was published in the medical journal Lancet. Doctors found that patients who got TXA had a 15percent lower chance of dying from hemorrhage than those who didn’t get it . They also had a 10 percent lower chance of dying from any other cause, including organ failure and a head injury. The study was paid for by the British government.
The drug is commonly used in wealthy countries during elective surgeries(外科手術(shù)) to stop bleeding , but isn’t used for accident victims. TXA is off-patent and made by many companies. It costs about $4.5 per gram, and a typical dose is two grams. It is usually given via an injection（注射） and would be relatively easy to introduce, even in poor countries, experts said.
Previous tests of the drug regarded its use in elective surgeries, such as heart operations, but this was the first study to test the drug on accident victims. Doctors were worried it might increase side effects such as blood clots （凝塊）in the heart and lungs, strokes, or heart attacks. There was no evidence of that in the Lancet study, though the authors said it was possible they might have missed some of these incidents.
For people between 5 and 45, accidents are the second leading cause of death worldwide after AIDS, and about 600,000 injured patients bleed to death every year. Experts estimated that if TXA were readily available, between 70,000 and 100,000 lives a year could be saved. Though the drug wasn’t tested on children , experts said it would almost certainly work with them as well.

  1. 1.

    The underlined word” hemorrhage” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________

    1. A.
      serious illness
    2. B.
      heart disease
    3. C.
      heavy bleeding
    4. D.
      lack of drug
  2. 2.

    What can we learn about TXA from the passage?

    1. A.
      It can only be made in England
    2. B.
      It was only used in operations before
    3. C.
      It is a patented drug
    4. D.
      It is mainly used in poor countries
  3. 3.

    Doctors were worried about using TXA because ________

    1. A.
      a lot of patients died unexpectedly after using it
    2. B.
      it has no treatment effect on patients
    3. C.
      it can cause blood clots or stroke
    4. D.
      they hadn’t used it on accident victims before
  4. 4.

    What do we know from the last paragraph?

    1. A.
      It is a pity that TXA wasn’t widely used on injured patients before
    2. B.
      Tests have proved that TXA can be used on children
    3. C.
      People between 5 and 45 should be injected with TXA every year
    4. D.
      Accidents are the first leading cause of death worldwide.

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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

The painter Georgia O’keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and grew up on her family’s farm. At seventeen she decided she wanted to be an artist and left the farm for schools in Chicago and New York, but she never lost her bond with the land. Like most painters, O’Keeffe painted the things that were most important to her, and nearly all her works are simplified portrayals of nature.
O’Keeffe became famous when her paintings were discovered and exhibited in New York by the photographer Levered Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. During a visit to New York in 1929, O’Keeffe was so moved by the bleak（荒涼的） landscape and broad skies of the Western desert that she began to paint its images. Cows’ skulls and other bleached（變白的） bones found in the desert figured prominently（突出的） in her paintings. When her husband died in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently and used the horizon lines of the desert, colorful flowers, rocks, barren(貧瘠的) hills, and the sky as subjects for her paintings. Although O’Keeffe painted her best known works in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, she continued to produce tributes（貢品、頌詞） to the Western desert until her death in 1986.
O’Keeffe is widely considered to have been a pioneering American modernist painter. While most early modern American artists were strongly influenced by European art, O’Keeffe’s position was more independent. She established her own vision and preferred to view her painting as a private endeavor. Almost from the beginning, her work was more indentifiably American than that of her contemporaries in its simplified and idealized treatment of color, light, space, and natural forms

  1. 1.

    Which of the following best tells what this passage is about ?

    1. A.
      O’Keeffe was a distinctive modern American painter
    2. B.
      O’Keeffe was the best painter of her generation
    3. C.
      O’Keeffe liked to paint only what was familiar to her
    4. D.
      O’Keeffe used colors and shapes that are too reduced and simple
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O’Keeffe’s paintings ?

    1. A.
      Her rural upbringing
    2. B.
      Her life in the West
    3. C.
      The works of European artists
    4. D.
      The appearance of the natural landscape
  3. 3.

    Which of the following is most similar to O’Keeffe’s relationship with nature?

    1. A.
      A photoghrapher’s relationship with a model
    2. B.
      A writer’s relationship with a publisher
    3. C.
      A student’s relationship with a teacher
    4. D.
      A carpenter’s relationship with a hammer
  4. 4.

    Why is O’Keeffe considered an artistic pioneer ?

    1. A.
      Her work became influential in Europe
    2. B.
      She painted the American Southwest
    3. C.
      Her paintings had a definite American style
    4. D.
      She painted things that were familiar to her

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Common indoor plants may prove to be a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. Those plants in your office or home are not only pretty, but NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing possible harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings.?
NASA have announced the finds of a 2-year study that suggested the common indoor plants may provide a natural way of helping fight against “Sick Building Syndrome(綜合癥)”.?
Research into the use of biological processes as a means of solving environmental problems, both on Earth and in space habitats, has been carried out for many years by Dr. Bill Wloverton, a senior research scientist at NASA. ?
Based on preliminary evaluations(初步評(píng)估) of the use of common indoor plants for indoor air purification(凈化),NASA funded a study using about a dozen popular varieties of attractive plants to determine their effectiveness in removing several key pollutants linked with indoor air pollution. NASA research on indoor has found that living plants are so efficient at absorbing pollutants in the air that some will be launched into space as part of the biological life support system aboard future orbiting space stations.?
While more research is needed, Wolverton says the study has shown that common indoor plants can remove certain pollutants from the indoor environment. “We feel that future results will provide an even stronger argument that common indoor plants can be a very effective part of a system used to provide pollution free homes and work places,” he concludes.?
“Combining nature with technology can increase the effectiveness of plants in removing air pollutants,” he said.
NASA research has always shown that living, green and flowering plants can remove several poisonous chemicals from the air inside buildings. You can use plant in your home or office to improve the quality of the air to make it a more pleasant place to live and work—where people feel better, perform better, and enjoy life more.

  1. 1.

    The main idea of the passage is _______.?

    1. A.
      plants are very useful to human beings?
    2. B.
      indoor plants can help remove indoor air pollution?
    3. C.
      indoor plants should be raised in both homes and offices?
    4. D.
      NASA have studied indoor plants for many years?
  2. 2.

    Why do you think NASA are very interested in indoor plants??

    1. A.
      Some indoor plants would be used in space stations.?
    2. B.
      They want to find a way to cure Sick Building Syndrome.?
    3. C.
      They need indoor plants to carry out their experiments.?
    4. D.
      Indoor plants are pretty and attractive.?
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “pollutants” refers to _______.?

    1. A.
      some kinds of indoor plants
    2. B.
      ways to solve air pollution?
    3. C.
      research on indoor plants
    4. D.
      poisonous chemicals in the air?

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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

Fifteen people were killed and 38 others injured in a road accident early Wednesday morning in Ens hi， Central China’s Hu bei Province．
The bus， travelling from Wanzhou in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality to  Shen zhen in South China’s Guangdong Province， had 53 passengers on board，three more than permitted．
At around 1 am on Wednesday， the bus increased speed gradually on a curve（彎路）and plunged（往前沖） more than 30 metres into a valley below． Thirteen people， including one of the two drivers， died at once． Two others died on the way to hospital．
Although the cause of the accident is still unclear， the local police said the driver paid no attention to the official warning signs on the expressway(高速公路)．
It hit a section which had been closed as a result of snow．
Because of the cold weather and icy roads，the expressway had been closed by police since Tuesday morning． But the bus drivers took the dangerous route, paying no attention to the warnings．
The rescue team， which included more than 30 medical workers and 120 local villagers，joined together and rushed to the scene at the news of the accident． By 5 am， all of the injured had been sent to three local hospitals for emergency treatment． A hospital source said most of the patients were in a stable（穩(wěn)定的）condition but a few were still in danger．
According to a 2009 national public opinion poll， traffic accidents ranked as people’s third biggest security（安全） concern．

  1. 1.

    When the accident took place，______.

    1. A.
      the bus was on the way to Shenzhen
    2. B.
      most of the passengers were sound asleep
    3. C.
      all the passengers were given immediate rescue
    4. D.
      it was snowing hard
  2. 2.

    The expressway was closed to ______.

    1. A.
      protect the passengers from being frozen
    2. B.
      make the police have a good rest
    3. C.
      stop cars traveling around
    4. D.
      avoid（避免） the happening of traffic accidents
  3. 3.

    What the local villagers did showed that they were ______.

    1. A.
      curious（好奇的）
    2. B.
      warm hearted
    3. C.
      frightened
    4. D.
      simple minded

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Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy—five, he gave ? 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (設(shè)備) for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy—five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection

  1. 1.

    Johnson became a rich man through

    1. A.
      doing business
    2. B.
      making whisky
    3. C.
      cheating
    4. D.
      buying and selling land
  2. 2.

    The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson

    1. A.
      had no children
    2. B.
      was a strange man
    3. C.
      was very fond of children
    4. D.
      wanted people to know how rich he was
  3. 3.

    Many people wrote to Johnson to find out

    1. A.
      why he gave so much money to the school
    2. B.
      how to live longer
    3. C.
      how to become wealthy
    4. D.
      in which part of the neck to have an injection
  4. 4.

    The newspaperman

    1. A.
      should have reported what Johnson had told him
    2. B.
      shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had
    3. C.
      was eager to live a long life
    4. D.
      should have found out what Johnson really meant

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At a laboratory in Germany ,volunteers slide into a machine and perform simple tasks, such as deciding whether to add or subtract two numbers , or choosing which of two buttons to press.
They have no idea that scientists in the next room are trying to read their minds-using a brain scan to figure out their intention before it is turned into action.
In the past ,scientists had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements before those movements appeared .But researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now , for the first time ,identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity-in this case ,adding versus subtracting.
While still in its initial stages ,the techniques may eventually have wide-ranging implications for everything from criminal questioning to airline security checks.
The research,which began in July 2005,has been of limited scope:only 21 people have been tested so far.And the 71 percent accuracy rate is only about 20 percent more successful than random selection.
Still ,the research conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig ,about 150 kilometers southwest of Berlin ,has been generating strong interest in the scientific community.
In one study ,participants were told to decide whether to add or subtract two numbers a few seconds before the numbers were flashed on a screen . Meanwhile ,a computer captured images of their brain waves to predict the subject's decision-with one pattern suggesting addition, and another subtraction.
The team ,headed by Haynes ,began its research by trying to identify which part of the mind was storing intentions. They discovered it was found in the prefrontal cortex region by scanning the brain to look for bursts of activity when subjects were given choices.
Then they went about studying which type of patterns were associated with different intentions.
"If you knew which thought signatures to look for ,you could theoretically predict in more detail what people were going to do in the future," said Haynes.

  1. 1.

    Which of the following is true about the experiment at the laboratory?

    1. A.
      The volunteers are asked to perform very complicated tasks.
    2. B.
      Everything was explained to the volunteers before the experiment.
    3. C.
      The volunteers cannot see the scientists while performing the tasks.
    4. D.
      The volunteers started the experiment by pressing one of the two buttons.
  2. 2.

    Which of the following demonstrates the major breakthrough made by the German scientists?

    1. A.
      By studying the subjects' brain waves , they know what physical movements they'll make.
    2. B.
      By studying the subjects' brain waves, they know what mental task they'll perform.
    3. C.
      By studying criminals' brain waves ,they can help find out whether they are lying or not.
    4. D.
      By studying passengers' brain waves ,they can help find out who intends to make trouble.
  3. 3.

    In the research which began in July 2005 only______subjects' brains were scanned and the accuracy rate was______.

    1. A.
      21; 20%     
    2. B.
      71;20%      
    3. C.
      21;71%      
    4. D.
      20;71%
  4. 4.

    The group of scientists in Leiqzig were doing______what the group in Berlin were doing.

    1. A.
      similar research to                 
    2. B.
      better research than
    3. C.
      completely different things from       
    4. D.
      a less satisfactory job than
  5. 5.

    The term thought signatures in the last paragraph refers to______.

    1. A.
      the subjects' intentions      
    2. B.
      the subjects' physical movements
    3. C.
      parts of the human brain   
    4. D.
      the human brain wave patterns
  6. 6.

    From the information in the passage, it can be concluded that in the future______.

    1. A.
      the intentions of people can be predicted accurately
    2. B.
      it's impossible to predict accurately the intentions of people
    3. C.
      no one in the world will dare to tell lies to other people
    4. D.
      everyone will easily know what others are thinking about

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I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!
Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.
Email reminds me, of course， of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun. I wasn’t really sure whether people said this，but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.
In the late 1980s I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like “I’ll page you as soon as I know what time we’re meeting”. They couldn't say it to me, though; 1 refused to have one. So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message （either spoken or written）for them on their phone.Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ll start using it myself!

  1. 1.

    “I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means          .

    1. A.
      it was a firm arrangement
    2. B.
      it was an uncertain arrangement
    3. C.
      the arrangement should be written as a diary
    4. D.
      he prefers a pencil to a pen
  2. 2.

    A website address can be easily found if it has been＿_(dá)___.

    1. A.
      emailed
    2. B.
      messaged
    3. C.
      favorited
    4. D.
      texted
  3. 3.

    Which of the following has not been used as a verb, yet?

    1. A.
      message
    2. B.
      page
    3. C.
      email
    4. D.
      mobile
  4. 4.

    The best title for this passage is____.

    1. A.
      New Verbs from Old Nouns
    2. B.
      The Development of the English language
    3. C.
      New Technology and New words
    4. D.
      Technology and Language.

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