2013届高三英语三星级阶梯阅读练习5.docVIP

2013届高三英语星级阶梯阅读练习 三星级 5 A Its not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what were 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. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising wed fax it immediately.