English is always changing. The English that people used 500 years ago is very 1to the English we use now. 2in the last fifty years,English has changed.3words are entering our language all the time. The words internet,email and mobile phone are only twenty years old. The word website is even

4. We only started using it fifteen years ago. But what 5languages to change? And is language change a positive or a negative thing?

     There are many reasons that 6 change. One reason is that technology changes. We use new7. for new types of technology. Thirty years ago,we only used the word in English to 8.an animal. Today,the word mouse9. I means the object you use to contipl a computer. Another important reason for language change is 10 between different countries and cultures. For example,English uses words like sugar from Arabic,and yoghurt from Turkish. Languages also change because young people create their own way of 11 that is different from their parents. 12 often use new slang ——informal words and phrases — to talk to their friends. Some slang gets 13 , but other slang words become part of everyday language. Words like bus and rock music 14 as slang,but now they are in the dictionary and everyone 15 them.

    But is language change a good thing or a bad thing? Some people think that we should stop languages from 16 . They think that they need to 17 their language or it will die. 18,other people believe that language change is a natural thing and shouldn't be 19 . They think that it is 20 that languages change over time. They think that languages need to change to stay modem and interesting.

1. A. important   B. valuable

   C. close     D. different

2. A. Only   B. Even   C. Once   D. Then

3. A. New   B. Funny   C. Spoken   D. Foreign

4. A. easier      B. younger

  C. better   D. luckier

5. A. expects     B. requires

  C. causes   D. teaches

6. A. languages   B. technologies

  C. cultures   D. people

7. A. ideas       B. websites

  C. computers   D. words

8. A. control        B. learn

  C. describe       D. remember

9. A. still       B. also   C. soon   D. again

10. A. disagreement     B. comparison

   C. competition   D. communication

11. A. talking      B. thinking

  C. working       D. organizing

12. A. Parents       B. Teachers

  C. Teenagers      D. Writers

13. A. loved       B. finished

  C. discovered   D. forgotten

14. . A. stayed   B. started

   C. proved   D. waited

15. A. uses         B. lists

  C. corrects       D. introduces

16. A. happening   B. changing

   C. spreading   D. losing

17. A. understand   B. improve

   C. protect   D. study

18. A. However         B. Therefore

  C. In addition   D. In return

19. A. completed      B. affected

  C. considered   D. stopped

20. A. true         B. necessary

  C. normal       D. interesting

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