2013年浙江省杭州市外国语学校高考英语（阅读理解提分训练）每日一练48.docVIP

倒数第一周星期三 (A) Some of you must have complained why there are so many English words that you have to memorize every day.?However, do you know how many words the English language has exactly? Maybe ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or?even??one million! Every 98 minutes, there is a new English word being?created. Last time when words were being?added??to the language at this rate was during the?days?of William Shakespeare. The?widespread??popularity of English has?brought??the most fertile (丰富的) period of word creation. About 1.53 billion people speak English as a?primary, a second or a business language. The Global Language Monitor,?located??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?include??“defollow”, “defriend”, “noob”, and “greenwashing”. “Defollow” and “defriend” are Internet words,?describing???what users do with a person they do not wish to?stay??in touch with on the Internet. “Noob” is an offending name for someone new?to??a particular task or community. The word “greenwashing”?refers to??what companies do to appear?environmentally??friendly. And “chiconomics” means a difficult time in fashion. Of course, there is a?possibility??that the one millionth word will be a sixth choice. The Global Language Monitor once?expected??that the millionth English word would be “imminent” in 2006, but the organization has?put off ?that expected date more than ?once. Other experts have?have expressed?doubts about its methods because they don’t think that there is an agreement about how to classify a word. 61. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. There are over one billion people speak English as a primary language. B. The one millionth word has six choices. C. The Global Language Monitor is in America. D. There is an agreement about how to classify a word. 62. How many w