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第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项 Some of you must have complained why there are so many English words that you have to memorize every day.   36  , do you know how many words the English language has exactly? Maybe ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or   37   one million! Every 98 minutes, there is a new English word being   38  . Last time when words were being   39   to the language at this rate was during the   40   of William Shakespeare. The   41   popularity of English has   42   the most fertile (丰富的) period of word creation. About 1.53 billion people speak English as a   43  , a second or a business language. The Global Language Monitor,   44   in the state of Texas in the US, has been recording English word creation since 2003. Now, there are almost one million English words. Words that are predicted to be the one millionth   45   “defollow”, “defriend”, “noob”, and “greenwashing”. “Defollow” and “defriend” are Internet words,   46   what users do with a person they do not wish to   47   in touch with on the Internet. “Noob” is an offending name for someone new   48   a particular task or community. The word “greenwashing”   49   what companies do to appear   50   friendly. And “chiconomics” means a difficult time in fashion. Of course, there is a   51   that the one millionth word will be a sixth choice. The Global Language Monitor once   52   that the millionth English word would be “imminent” in 2006, but the organization has   53  that expected date  54  once. Other experts have   55   doubts about its methods because they don’t think that there is an agreement about how to classify a word. 36．A．However  B．Besides     C．Moreover  D．Therefore 37．A．ever  B．never C．even  D．sometimes 38．A．commented      B．created     C．memorized       D．motivated 39．A．added       B．acquired   C．adopted    D．devoted 40．A．years B．days  C．months     D．hours 41．A．appropriate      B．widespread       C．fundamental     D．awful 42．A．taken B．led    C．found       D．brought 43．A．physical    B．social       C．primary    D．typical 44．A．lay    B．located     C．built  D．found 45．A．conclude   B．include     C．have  D．set 46．A．saying      B．writing     C．describing D．accounting 47．A．lose   B．pay   C．have  D．stay 48．A．with  B．of     C．to      D．at 49．A．refers to   B．prefers to  C．comes to   D．sticks to 50．A．constantly B．eventually C．environmentally      D．finally 51．A．fact   B．possibility C．result D．bond 52．A．published  B．declared    C．expected   D．claimed 53．A．put up      B．put off      C．put down  D．put out 54．A．more than B．other than C．rather than       D．less than 55．A．expressed  B．instructed  C．associated D．consulted 答案：36—40 ACBAB    41—45 BDCBB    46—50 CDCAC    51—55 BCBAA

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