“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings. It can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It's cool.” You may think, “He's so cool，”when you see your favorite football player. We all maximize the meaning of “cool”. You use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”. Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall they had visited. On one student's paper was just the sentence, “It's cool.”But the story also shows a scarcity（缺乏）of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some creditability（可信性）. Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.
(1)
In the first paragraph, “cool” means: _______ .
A. famous
B. favorite
C. new
D. A and B
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(2)
If you say “something is cool”, it means _______ .
A. You are afraid of it.
B. You don't like it.
C. You are worried about it.
D. You like it.
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(3)
“maximize” means _______ .
A. 扩大 B. 缩小 C. 限制 D. 节省
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(4)
The word “cool” is often used by _______ .
A. children
B. the youth
C. old man and women
D. all the people
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(5)
According to the passage, we can guess that the writer is _______ the way the word is used.
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