题目内容
A language never stands still. It is always changing and developing. These changes are rapid in primitive societies, but slow in advanced ones, because the invention of printing and the spread of education have fixed a traditional usage. The only important change that English has undergone since the first of the 16th century is a large increase in its vocabulary. It is interesting to trace the different way in which new words are invented. Let us take just two English words and see how they were made sandwich and television.
Sandwich, which is now no longer an entirely English word, but also international, comes from the Earl of Sandwich (died in 1792), who invented the particular form of quick meal so that he could go on gambling all through the night without stopping for dinner. Many names of things are in fact taken from the name of the first inventors, for example, the electrical terms Watt and Volt.
Television is one of many new scientific words which are invented from old Greek and Latin words.“Tele”is Greek, meaning“far”, while“vision”comes from the Latin verb, meaning“to see”.
(1) “Stand”in the first sentence means__________.
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(2) What do you think Volt was? He was __________.
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(3) The invention of sandwich has something to do with ___________.
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(4) English has undergone an important change in its vocabulary for almost centuries.
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(5) The language cannot develop rapidly in advanced societies because ________.
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A．the societies have stopped changing
B．the printing has been invented
C．the education has spread
D．both B and C
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