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, 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; I 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! 　

60. “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

61. A website address can be easily found if it has been            .

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

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

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

63. The best title for this passage is           ．

A. New Verbs from Old Nouns　　　　

B. The Development of the English language

C. New Technology and New words     

D. Technology and Language

The pen I____ I _____is on my desk, right under my nose.

  A. think; lost       B. thought; had lost

  C. think; had lost    D. thought; have lost

Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers ___1.___ it was too late to tell them. I am blessed (赐福) with the dear mother who is still alive. I ___2.___ her more each day. My mother does not change, but I ___3.___ . As I grow older and wiser, I realize ___4.___ an extraordinary person she is. How ___5.___ that I am unable to speak these words in her ___6.___ , but they flow easily from my pen.

　　How does a daughter begin to thank her mother for life itself? For the love, patience and just ___7.___ hard work that go into ___8.___ a child? For running after a toddler (学走步的小孩), for understanding a ___9.___ teenager, for tolerating (忍受;容忍) a college student who knows ___10.___ ? For waiting for the day when a daughter ___11.___ how wise her mother really is?

　　How does a ___12.___ woman thank a mother for ___13.___ to be a mother? For being ready ___14.___ advice (when asked) or remaining ___15.____ when it is most appreciated? For not saying, “I told you so,” when she could have uttered these words ___16.___ ? For being ___17.___ herself-loving, thoughtful, patient, and forgiving?

　　I don’t know how, dear God, except to ask you to bless her as richly as she ___18.___ and to help me live up to the example she has ___19.___ . I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother ___20.___ in mine.

21.               A．as             B．that           C．until  D．when

 

22.               A．approve        B．appreciate      C．need D．resemble

 

23.               A．do            B．have           C．did   D．will

 

24.               A．how           B．that           C．who  D．what

 

25.A.sad           B.glad              C.comic            D tragic

26.               A．absence        B．presence       C．appearance    D．existence

 

27.               A．common        B．plain           C．normal    D．usual

 

28.               A．raising         B．rising          C．developing D．training

 

29.               A．childish        B．energetic       C．fearless   D．moody

 

30.               A．anything        B．something      C．everything D．nothing

 

31.               A．detects         B．discovers       C．recognizes D．realizes

 

32.               A．pretty          B．foolish         C．green D．grown

 

33.               A．failing          B．intending       C．continuing D．keeping

 

34.               A．by            B．with           C．for   D．on

 

35.               A．silent          B．quiet          C．cool  D．noiseless

 

36.               A．dozen times     B．a dozen of times C．dozens of times D．dozen of time

 

37.               A．valuably        B．essentially      C．naturally   D．virtually

 

38.               A．devotes        B．deserts         C．deserves  D．desires

 

39.               A．set            B．settled         C．placed    D．fixed

 

40.               A．sees           B．finds           C．is    D．looks

 

 

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假如你是陈刚。国际中学生友谊俱乐部根据你的请求，把一名美国中学生杰克介绍给你。      

希望你们成为笔友。现由你给杰克写信，信的内容要点如下：

1.个人简况：今年16岁, 高一学生，就读于于广州一中。 2.业余爱好：读书，打篮球，  上网(已六年)，尤其喜欢玩网络游戏——“魔兽世界”。3.希望了解：美国中学生的校内外生活；他们最喜欢和最不喜欢的事；家长如何看待学生的学习成绩。 4.希望对方回信，或发电子邮件。你的邮箱地址：chengang@vip.sina.com

注意：①词数100左右； ②开头已给出，不用重复写；③参考词汇： 玩网络游戏: play     

online games   魔兽世界: World of Warcraft     学习成绩: study results

Dear Jack,

How are you? I was very happy to receive your letter and I’d very much like to be  

your pen pal._____________________________________________________

Yours,

Chen Gang