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1、高考英語素能提高題:Unit2《Language》(譯林牛津版必修3) Ⅰ.填詞AWEBSITEcalledtheGlobalLanguageMonitorrecently(日前)announcedthattheEnglishlanguagenowhasover1millionwords.Wordnumber1,000,000is“Web2.0”.MostAmericanshaveavocabularyofabout00words.ThemostfamousEnglishspeakerinhistory,WilliamShakespeare,used30,000
2、wordsinhisplays.That’salot,butit’snotevencloseto1million.Sowheredoallofthesewordscomefrom?Englishlikestoborrowwordsfromotherlanguages.Taketheword“fiancé”,aFrenchtermforsomeonewho’sengaged(訂婚).Englishspeakersdon’thaveawordoftheirowntodescribethis,sotheyjustusetheFrench.Don’tforget“fen
3、gshui”,theChinesetermnowusedbyEnglishspeakerswhowanttoarrange(布置)theirfurnitureinharmony(和諧).IntheageoftheInternet,theEnglishlanguageisgrowingmorequickly.Someexpertsbelievethatasmanyas15wordsjointheEnglishlanguageeveryday.Nowit’spossibletoshareinformationveryquicklywithpeopleallovert
4、heworld,andwordsfromalllanguagesareflyingthroughasharedcyberspace(網(wǎng)絡(luò)空間).Speakingofcyberspace,intheageoftheInternet,awholenewvocabularyisbeingused.Thinkofwordslike“cyber”,“blog”(博客),“WorldWideWeb”and“email”.Tenyearsago,thesewordswererare(稀少的).Nowit’shardtoimaginetheEnglishlanguage—and
5、theworld—withoutthem!MajorfactAwebsitecalledtheGlobalLanguageMonitorrecently__1__thattheEnglishlanguagenowhas__2__words.QuestionWheredoallofthesewordscomefrom?ExplanationsEnglishlikesto__3__wordsfromotherlanguages.__4__:1)Englishspeakersusethe__5__word“fiancé”becausetheydon’thaveawor
6、dtodescribesomeonewhoisengaged.2)Englishspeakersusethe__6__“fengshui”toarrangetheirfurnitureinharmony.Inthe__7__oftheInternet,Englishisgettingbiggerandsharedfaster.Examples:1)Expertsbelievethatasmanyas__8__wordsjointheEnglishlanguageeveryday.2)Awholenew__9__isbeingused.Wordslike“cybe
7、r”were__10__tenyearsago.Ⅱ.簡答題Stormscanresultwhentheairtemperatureinoneareaisdifferentfromthatofanother.Warmerairrisesandcoolerairfalls.Thesemovementscreateadifferenceinthepressureoftheatmosphere.Ifthepressurechangesoveralargearea,windsstarttoblowinahugecircle.Highpressureairispulledi
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