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　　It’s not only rocket scientists and journalists who are following the course of “Shenzhou V”, or “Divine ship/vessel V”．There are also lexicographers, or dictionary compilers．The flight of the Spacecraft last week might help put some new words into orbit．

　　One of them is a western media coinage used to refer to the Chinese astronauts．It s a combination of the Chinese pinyin “taikong”, meaning space, and the English “astronaut”, from classical Greek：“star sailor/navigator”, for people who was going into space as a career．

　　In the Reuters and AP reports of October 15,“taikonaut” was used as a proper noun．For example：The long March 2F rocket carrying “taikonaut” Yang Liwei lifted off into a clear blue sky over the Gobi desert at 9 am and entered its orbit 10 minutes later．

　　A Long March 2F rocket called the Shenzhou V－“divine ship” in Chinese－carried a single “taikonaut” named Yang Liwei,38,following Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard in 1961．

　　The word “taikonaut” is not a newly coined term．It first emerged in November,1999,when China launched its first unmanned “Shenzhou Ⅰ” spacecraft．

　　At that lime, some English news media predicted that China would soon launch a manned space flight and created the word “taikonaut” for the Chinese astronauts．It was then borrowed by the Germans media．

　　But it was left out of mainstream dictionaries, such as the Merriam－Webster Dictionary and Cambridge Advanced English

　　Learner’s Dictionary．

　　However, the launch of the “Shenzhou V” will most likely help boost its status since there is already a word referring specifically to Russian astronauts in the dictionary entry．

　　An astronaut of Russian(or the former Soviet Union)is called a “cosmonaut”, from the Russian “kosmonaut”．The word was derived from classical Greek：“kosmonaut”(universal)and “nautes”．One might argue that “cosmonaut” is a Russian variation on the earlier word “astronaut”．

　　On March 14,1995,US astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, arguably making him the first American cosmonaut．

　　And if this trend of coinage continues, more English variations for astronaut will appear as more countries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space, what would Western journalists call an astronaut from India or Africa we’ll have to wait to see．

1．Give the best title of the passage．(within 10 words)

2．What is the influence to the dictionalry result after the launch of the “Shenzhou V” spacecraft？(within 15 words)

3．The reason why there will be more variations for the word “astronauts” is that．

4．The underlined word “coinage” means．

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1．答案：How to tell a “Taikonaut” from an Astronaut? 　　2．答案：Some new words have widely been put into use． 　　3．答案：more and more countries will be able to send their own astronauts into space 　　4．答案：invention of word 　　1．解析：主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了因为中国载人航天事业的发展而派生的一个新英语词汇“taikonaut”的由来。 　　2．解析：细节理解题。根据“The flight of the Spacecraft last week might help put some new words into orbit”可知，随着“神舟5号”的发射升空，可能会诞生更多的新词汇。 　　3．解析：细节理解题。根据“more English variations for ‘astronaut’ will appear，as more countries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space”可知，astronauts之所以有这么多的派生词，是因为越来越多的国家能把自己国家的宇航员送上太空。 　　4．解析：词义猜测题。可以通过它的派生词coined来帮助我们推测词义，根据“The word ‘taikonaut’ is not a newly coined term．”可知coinage是“新创词汇”的意思。