Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries, too. New words are also made by adding two words together. “Postman” and “grandfather” are words made up of two parts. Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. The word “photo” was made from photograph by cutting off the end of the longer word. “Plane” was made by cutting off the front part of airplane. “Smog” was made by using only the first two and last two letters from the words “smoke” and “fog”. The names of people and products can become new words. Our sandwich was named after a man named “Sandwich” .
1. The English language needs new words .
A. to make it more beautiful
B. to make up some stories
C. for new inventions and new ideas
2. The passage makes you think that .
A. all the new words are borrowed from other languages
B. languages do not stay the same all the time
C. the English language has more words than other languages
3. On the whole, the passage is about.
A. borrowing words from other languages
B. naming new products
C. the development of the English language
4. The word “coffee” is an example to show that .
A. the English language is always changing very fast
B. English can change by borrowing words from other languages
C. English is not as perfect as some other languages
5. Which of the following is true?
A. New words in the English language come into being in different ways.
B. New English words must be longer than the older ones.
C. All the languages except English always stay the same.
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