2014届高三英语二轮专题复习拔高训练：教育类阅读理解25.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮专题复习拔高训练：教育类阅读理解25 1.阅读下面的短文，从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 It’s not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We al 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 a got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon stated 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 ate 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