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The development of the English language took a giant step in 1607. Three small British ships c小题1】 the Atlantic Ocean. They began to call areas of their new land by words borrowed from the native people. For example, many of the great r小题2】 in the United States are taken from American Indian words. The Mississippi, the Tennessee, the Missouri are examples. This borrowing or adding of foreign words to English was a w小题3】of expanding(扩大)the language. The names of three days of the week are good examples of this. The people from Northern Europe honored three gods with a special day each week. The gods were Odin, Thor and Freya. Odin’s-day became Wednesday in English, Thor’s-day became T小题4】 and Freya’s-day became Friday.
Experts cannot explain many English words. For h小题5】 of years, a dog was called a “hound.” The word is still u小题6】 but not as commonly as the word “dog.” English speakers just started using it. Other words whose origins are unknown i小题7】“fun,” “bad,” and “big.”
English speakers also continue to invent n小题8】 words by linking old words together. A good example is the words “motor” and “hotel.” Many years ago
s小题9】 linked them together into the word “motel.” A motel is a small hotel near a road where people travelling in cars can stay for the night.
Other words come from the f小题10】 letters of names of groups or devices. For example, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is usually called NATO.

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A. replied         B. friendly         C. explained         D. like        

E. looking forward to     F. relationship      G. each other      

H. language          I. differently

When I was sixteen years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad.

Just ____51____ most English children, I learnt French at school and I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign ____52____ to the people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America, I was really ____53____ having a nice holiday without any language problems.

How wrong I was! The misunderstanding (误解) began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Tina a ring and tell her that I had arrived. A ____54____ old man saw me looking like being lost and asked if he could help me.

“Yes,” I said. “I want to give my friend a ring.”

“Well, that’s nice,” he said. “Are you getting married? But aren’t you a bit young?”

“Who’s talking about marriage?” I ____55____. “I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I have arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box?”

“Oh!” He said. “There is a phone downstairs.”

When at last we did meet up, Tina ____56____ the misunderstanding to me. “Don’t worry,” she said to me. “I had many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use____57____ in meaning from the British. You will soon get used to all the funny things they say. But most of the time British and American people can understand ____58____.”

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