科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.
I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!
Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.
Email reminds me, of course, of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun. I wasn’t really sure whether people said this, but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.
In the late 1980s I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like “I’ll page you as soon as I know what time we’re meeting”. They couldn't say it to me, though; I refused to have one. So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message （either spoken or written）for them on their phone．Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ll start using it myself!
60. “I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means .
A. it was a firm arrangement
B. it was an uncertain arrangement
C. the arrangement should be written as a diary
D. he prefers a pencil to a pen
61. A website address can be easily found if it has been .
A. emailed B. messaged C. favorited D. texted
62. Which of the following has not been used as a verb yet?
A. message B. page C. email D. mobile
63. The best title for this passage is ．
A. New Verbs from Old Nouns
B. The Development of the English language
C. New Technology and New words
D. Technology and Language
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：
Only when _______ possible to settle the problem.
A. does the editor come will it be B. the editor comes will it be
C. has the editor come it will be D. the editor comes it will be
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010年百色祈福高中高一下学期第一次月考英语卷 题型：写作题
用英语写一篇以题为life in the future的短文，开头已给出。
内容：
1）一些人可能到月球上去度假。 2）某些科学家可能在海底生活。
3）每家都有可视电话。 4）在家里就可进行体检和购物。
5）孩子在家里可通过电视和广播接受教育。 6）机器人帮助人们做家务。
……
参考词汇：可视电话：videophone 机器人：robot
注意：
1、字数120左右；
2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3、要点齐全, 书写规范工整。
Life in the Future
Sometiems I dream about life in the future. What will it be like ?……
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科目：高中英语 来源：高考英语陷阱题总结归纳--情态动词 题型：单项填空
“I promise that she _____ get a nice present on her birthday.” “Will it be a great surprise to her？”
|
A．should |
B．must |
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C．would |
D．shall |
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科目：高中英语 来源：陕西省延安市2009-2010学年高一下学期期中考试试题（英语） 题型：其他题
Ⅴ.补全对话（每小题1分，共5分）
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。（E涂AB，F涂AC，G涂AD）
W: Good morning. Is that 8089932?
M: 56
W: This is Maria Smith calling from the Packaging Company. 57
M: Speaking.
W: We’ve got your job application and I’m calling to arrange an interview with you.
M: 58 When will it be?
W: 59 Would that be all right?
M: 60
W: So we look forward to seeing you then. Bye-bye.
M: Bye. Thanks for calling.
A. That’s good.
B. How about Monday morning at 10:00?
C. It suits me fine.
D. Could I speak to Mr Richard Baylor?
E. Yes?
F. Who are you?
G. It doesn’t matter.
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