首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
According to the passage, new words tend to come from
According to the passage, new words tend to come from
admin
2012-08-27
64
问题
According to the passage, new words tend to come from
New words enter the English language all the time. In fact, English has always been in a state of evolution, and in recent years more and more words and phrases have entered the language. But where do all these new words come from? Words come out of the culture that they represent and they describe. So, if you’ve got a new development in medicine, for example, "bird flu", then you’ll get a new word coming out of that. If there’s a military conflict that may well bring all sorts of new words to the fore. Going back in time, the First and Second World Wars were times of great creativity of language because people from different countries met each other and exchanged their words and words developed from there. So, words come from the playground, they come from politics, they come from any area of life because every area of life is changing from day to day.
And does English have more words than any other language? It certainly has more than other European languages and probably more than any other language in the world. English is put together from so many different bits. Originally, it was a Germanic language and then after the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was an enormous influx of French words. And it comes from a country, the United Kingdom, which was quite an expansive, trading, colonial power in the past. And all these have bought all sorts of other new words into the language.
选项
A、historical
B、cultural
C、commercial
D、colonial
答案
A
解析
在分析为什么英语的词汇量比其他语言都要丰富时,录音从英语的最初形态——日耳曼语——说到了诺曼王朝时期法语词汇的大量涌入,最后谈到了英国这一超级强国对英语的影响,可见短文是从英语语言发展史的角度对问题进行分析解释的,所以答案为[A]。短文只在讨论英语词汇的来源时提到了文化,而在解释英语词汇量比其他语言更丰富的原因时没有涉及文化,故[B]可排除;[C]短文中未涉及;[D]是利用描述英国的限定词colonial捏造的干扰项,也可排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/EshK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Whatisthebesttitleofthepassage?
Bytheendofnextmonthwe______thereviewontheresearchfindings.
Whichofthefollowingisirrelevanttothecauseoftheexplosions?
Whichofthefollowingisirrelevanttothecauseoftheexplosions?
Moderntechnologyandsciencehaveproducedawealthofnewmaterialsandnewwaysofusingoldmaterials.Fortheartistthism
Whatisthemaintopicoftheconversation?
ItispossibleforstudentstoobtainadvanceddegreeinEnglishwhileknowinglittleornothingabouttraditionalscholarlymet
TheManagingDirectorsaidthatimprovingrelationswiththeassociationwouldnotbeeasy,butthatthey______totry.
Atthefall2001SocialScienceHistoryAssociationconventioninChicago,theCrimeandJusticenetworksponsoredaforumonth
Thecompetitionamongproducersofpersonalcomputersisessentiallyaracetogetthebest,mostinnovativeproductstothemar
随机试题
结核杆菌感染能引起肺炎链球菌感染引起
A.飞沫传播B.水、食物、苍蝇传播C.吸血节肢动物传播D.血液、体液、血液制品传播E.土壤传播霍乱主要经
背景材料:某总承包单位将一医院的通风空调工程分包给某安装单位,工程内容有风系统、水系统和冷热(媒)设备。设备有7台风冷式热泵机组,9台水泵,123台吸顶式新风空调机组,l237台风机盘管,42台排风机,均由业主采购。通风空调工程的电气系统由总承包单位施工。
根据我国《消费者权益保护法》的规定,消费者和经营者发生消费者权益争议时,可以通过()途径解决。
根据维稳反恐工作需要某市公安机关在机场高速公路设置治安检查站。某日,王某驾车途经检查站,因认为安检侵犯其人身权利,拒绝安检,并煽动其他车辆驾驶员拒绝安检,造成大量车辆拥堵、人员围观。作为执勤民警,正确处置措施是:
简述进步主义教育运动的始末。
伊斯兰教对中国文化的影响。(上海大学2016)
在窗体上画—个命令按钮,然后编写如下代码:PrivateSubCommand1_Click()DimM(10)AsIntegerFork=1To10M(k)=12-k
在下列字符中,其ASCII码值最小的一个是()。
TheMuslimmarriageisa【S1】______andreligiouscontractbetweenthebrideandgroom.Thereligiousceremoniesandcelebrations【
最新回复
(
0
)