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  3. A. badly B. be coined after C. refuse to D. from 1782 to 1792 A. he treated his poor tenants very【T13】______. B. who liv

A. badly B. be coined after C. refuse to D. from 1782 to 1792 A. he treated his poor tenants very【T13】______. B. who liv

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问题 A. badly     B. be coined after
C. refuse to     D. from 1782 to 1792
A. he treated his poor tenants very【T13】______.
B. who lived【T14】______.
C. means to【T15】______have anything to do with somebody or something.
D. a new word may【T16】______the inventor or scientist.
    About three hundred words in the English language come form the names of people. Many of these words are technical words. When there is a new invention or discovery,【T17】______It is interesting to observe how many common English words have found their way into the language from the names of people. Lord Sandwich【T18】______used to sit at the gambling table eating slices of bread in that way, so his friends began to call the bread "sandwich" for fun. Later on the word became part of the English language. The word "boycott"【T19】______. It comes from a man called Captain Boycott. He was a land agent in 1880 and he collected rents and taxes for an English landowner in Ireland. But the captain was a very harsh man.【T20】______. His tenants decided not to speak to him at all. Eventually word got back to the landowner and the Captain was removed. The word "boycott" became popular and was used by everyone to mean the kind of treatment that was received by Captain Boycott.
【T19】
选项 A、 
B、 
C、 
D、 
答案C
解析 空格前有名词，是句子的主语，因此该句子需要填入动词做谓语，C选项中的means(单数谓语)与空格前的the word能形成主谓一致的关系，同时该选项也正是在解释boycott的意思。故本题选C。
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