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[单项选择]The word "bead" originally meant prayer, but now it refers to the rosary used in the prayer. This is an example of______.
A. widening of meaning
B. loss of meaning
C. meaning shift
D. narrowing of meaning
[单项选择]The word library originally meant____.
A. freedom from ignorance
B. collections of books
C. means of communication
D. storage of knowledge
[单项选择]The word task originally meant money to be paid by people of businesses to a government for public purposes, but now it refers to work that has to be done. This is an example of ______.
A. narrowing of meaning
B. widening of meaning
C. meaning shift
D. loss of meaning
[单项选择]The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any day on which we don't have to work. This is an example of______.
A. meaning shift
B. widening of meaning
C. narrowing of meaning
D. loss of meaning
[单项选择]The word "offend" originally meant to strike against, but now the word signifies to create or excite anger. This is an example of ______.
A. meaning shift
B. widening of meaning
C. narrowing of meaning
D. loss of meaning
[单项选择]The word "girl" originally meant young people; and now it refers to young lady. This is an example of
A. meaning shift
B. loss of meaning
C. widening of meaning
D. narrowing of meaning
[单项选择]The word "orator" originally meant speaker; but now it signifies the person who makes speech. This is an example of ______.
A. narrowing of meaning
B. widening of meaning
C. meaning shift
D. loss of meaning
[单项选择]The word' "revive" in the passage 2 meant that _____.
A. make active again
B. study again
C. go over again
D. find the value again
[单项选择]Up to now, the author's word processor and email program are not attacked because _________.
[单项选择]Technology has meant more information is available at a faster speed ______.
A. but this creates pressures on newsrooms to control it
B. and this has meant that newsrooms can improve its quality
C. but there needs to be more reflection on the integrity of the process
D. and this has created division among the various departments in a newspaper
[单项选择]A Smarter Web is meant to be
A. a faster search engine.
B. a semantic Web.
C. a hypertext system.
D. a metadata.
[单项选择]Knowing that the slightest mistake meant losing his job, the waiter carried the expensive glasses______ from the kitchen.
A. cautiously
B. gravely
C. profoundly
D. radically
