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 comes 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．he prefers a pencil to a pen

C．the arrangement should be written as a diary

D．it was an uncertain arrangement

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

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

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

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

4.The best title for this passage is____.

A．Technology and Language.　　             B．Development of the English language

C．New Technology and New words            D．New Verbs from Nouns

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.A

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述的是在語(yǔ)言的發(fā)展過程中，很多次的詞性都發(fā)生了變化，由名詞變成了動(dòng)詞。本文舉了多個(gè)例子來證明這一點(diǎn)。

1.D 推理題。根據(jù)第二段2,3行“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!說明用鉛筆寫的是不確定的，用墨水寫的是確定的，故D正確。

2.A 推理題。根據(jù)第四段最后兩行I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb comes from an adjective not a noun.說明我們可以從最喜歡的網(wǎng)頁(yè)中找出自己喜歡的，也就是說你 可以把這些網(wǎng)站放在你所喜歡的收藏夾里。故A正確。

3.B 細(xì)節(jié)題。I can message someone和we were soon all emailing each other madly以及 I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb comes from an adjective not a noun.說明ACD三項(xiàng)的名詞都可以轉(zhuǎn)換為動(dòng)詞，只有mobile不是，故B正確。

4.D 主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章主題段第一段可知本文是語(yǔ)言中的詞性變化的話題，很多名詞都會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)變成動(dòng)詞，故D正確。

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點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文是關(guān)于名詞轉(zhuǎn)換成動(dòng)詞的詞性的變化。考查細(xì)節(jié)題和推理題較多，答題時(shí)在文章找到對(duì)應(yīng)的地方，用筆進(jìn)行標(biāo)記，這有利于后期有時(shí)間檢查時(shí)可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細(xì)理解作者所講的意思，再結(jié)合選項(xiàng)，通過排除法和自己對(duì)全文的把握，選出正確答案。