任务型阅读 阅读下面短文,根据短文内容,完成下列各题。

Language is always changing and developing. This isn’t a bad thing. If English hadn’t changed for a long time, we won’t have words to describe telephones, washing machines, computers or some other new things.

Language changes for several reasons. First, it changes because the needs of its speaker change. New technologies, new products, and new experiences need new words to express them clearly. Another reason for change is that different people have different language experiences. People use different sets of words and expressions, because they have different ages, jobs, education levels(水平) and so on.

How does language develop then? On the one hand, many of the languages changes begin with young people. When young people communicate with others of their own age, their language grows in grammar, words and expressions that are different from the older people’s. Some have a short lifetime but others can influence the language for long. On the other hand, we get new words in many different ways. We borrow them from other languages, we create them by making words shorter or combining words and we make them out of proper names.

Languages that don’t change over time are considered dead languages. The fact that English changes so much shows that it is alive and well.

1.What does the writer think of the change and development of language?

He thinks it is __________________________.

2.Why do people use different sets of words and expressions according to the passage?

Because their _____________ and education levels are different.

3.How many reasons for language change are mentioned in this passage?

The writer mentions_____________ reasons.

4.How do young people help develop language?

They do it when they _____________ others of their own age.

5.What is considered a dead language according to the passage?

The one that ____________ over time is considered a dead language.

阅读下列短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

We have always been interested in the moon. 2000 years ago people already knew it moved around the earth and where it would be in the sky at different times of the year. At that time, everything about the moon was learned by watching it carefully in the sky.

When scientists could use telescopes to study the moon more closely, their ideas began to change. They could see the moon was made of rocks. Most scientists thought moon rocks would be different from those on Earth. This was because they believed the moon had once been a planet that had been caught in the earth’s gravity (引力) millions of years earlier.

In 1969 moon rocks were finally brought to the earth and studied. Much to their surprise, scientists found that, except for water, the moon and the earth were made of the same things. Once again new ideas were needed for this new information.

After years of study, most scientists now think that the moon was once part of Earth. They believe very early in its history, maybe 4 million years ago, something about the size of Mars hit Earth. This sent billions of rocks into space around our planet. These rocks slowly joined together and after many years became the moon.

However, in the future, even though our ideas about the moon may change again, we will still be interested in it.

1. From the passage we know the moon was made of

A.earth B. rocks C. water D. metal

2.When did people first bring the moonrocks to the earth?

A. In 1969 B. In 1956 C. In 2006 D.In 1966

3.What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?_____________

A. Why people are interested in the moon.

B. How ideas about the moon have changed over time.

C. Where the moon came from in the past.

D. That people have finally learned the truth about the moon.

4. Before 1969 most scientists thought the moon was ________.

A. part of the earth billions of years earlier

B. older than the earth

C. a planet caught by the earth’s gravity

D. made of the same things as the earth

5.From this passage we can learn that ________.

A. scientists in the past were not clever

B. the earth was once part of the moon

C. new information brings new ideas

D. we now know everything about the moon

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