Question

It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.

   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. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. 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.

  Now my children bought me a mobile phone, 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 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. “I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means          .

       A. it was a firm arrangement

　　　 B. it was an uncertain arrangement

       C. the arrangement should be written as a diary

D. he prefers a pencil to a pen

2.A website address can be easily found if it has been______.

       A. emailed    B. messaged    C. favorited      D. texted

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

       A. message    B. page        C. email         D. mobile

4.The best title for this passage is____.

       A. New Verbs from Nouns

　B. The Development of the English language

       C. New Technology and New words

   D. Technology and Language.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.A  

【解析】

試題分析：

1.B 推理題。根據(jù)第二段第2行meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!

說明用鉛筆寫意為著不是最終的決定，只是臨時(shí)的決定，故B正確。

2.C 推理題。根據(jù)第四段最后一行I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun.說明我把這些網(wǎng)站設(shè)置成我最喜歡的網(wǎng)站，通過這種方法可以讓我很快就找到這些網(wǎng)站。故C正確。

3.D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)and we were soon all emailing each other madly. 和I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun.以及I can message someone, 說明ABC都可以作為動詞，只有D項(xiàng)文章沒有提及可以作為動詞，故D正確。

4.A 主旨大意題。本文通過多個例子告訴我們很多名詞都已經(jīng)轉(zhuǎn)換成了動詞，故A正確。

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點(diǎn)評：本文通過多個例子告訴我們很多名詞都已經(jīng)轉(zhuǎn)換成了動詞。考查推理題較多，要求考生準(zhǔn)確定位，做出細(xì)心的判斷。