[单项选择]In Old English the word girl can refer to a young person of either sex. Today it is restricted to "a young woman". This is an instance of ______.
A. meaning shift
B. narrowing
C. broadening
D. class shift

[单项选择]In Old English the word girl can refer to a young person of either sex. Today it is restricted to "a young woman". This is an instance of ______.
A. meaning shift
B. narrowing
C. broadening
D. class shift

[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]By saying "you can die old at 30 and live young at 80', Alice Brophy means that ______.
A. people usually die at different ages in the past and at present
B. people died at 30 years old in the past but live happily at 80 now
C. some can die at 30 years old but other people may live until they are 80 years old
D. some can be very old and die at 30 while others stay very young when they are 80

[单项选择]Young children can soon ______ word they hear their elders use.
A. put forward.
B. look forward to
C. turn up
D. pick up

[单项选择]Though her parents dislike the young man, they can not prevent their daughter ______ marrying him.
A. to
B. in
C. from
D. for

[单项选择]The young girl showed wonderful facility for learning languages.
A. liking
B. imagination
C. delight
D. aptitude

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Passage Five A young girl and a man were recently found murdered in a parked car in a Boston suburb. The police found no clue (线索) in the car. Then they found a witness who had seen a car pass by the murdered couple’s car. He said it was a 1950 or 1951 Chevrolet (雪佛莱牌汽车). Ordinarily, searching through the files for owners of elderly Chevies would have been an impossibly difficult task because there were two and a half million such cars. In this case, however, the police had a powerful tool--the computer. The Boston Registry of Motor Vehicles programmed its computer to screen all 1950 and 1951 Chevrolets within a fifteen-mile radius (半径) of the suburb--the area in which the police believed the murderer was most likely to be found. Within minutes, the computer uncovered one thousand of the wanted cars. A few hours of careful hand screening turned up a 1950 Chevrolet owner who lived close to the scene of the crime and who had received many traffic tickets (交通罚款).
A. Searching through the files of Chevies owners was impossibly difficult.
B. The suspect lived within a fifteen-mile radius of the suburb.
C. The suspect had received a number of traffic tickets before.
D. It took the police hours to find the suspect.

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Passage Five 5
A young girl and a man were recently found murdered in a parked car in a Boston suburb. The police found no clue (线索) in the car. Then they found a witness who had seen a car pass by the murdered couple’s car. He said it was a 1950 or 1951 Chevrolet (雪佛莱牌汽车).
Ordinarily, searching through the files for owners of elderly Chevies would have been an impossibly difficult task because there were two and a half million such cars. In this case, however, the police had a powerful tool--the computer.
The Boston Registry of Motor Vehicles programmed its computer to screen all 1950 and 1951 Chevrolets within a fifteen-mile radius (半径) of the suburb--the area in which the police believed the murderer was most likely to be found. Within minutes, the computer uncovered one thousand of the wanted cars. A few hours of careful hand screening turned up a 1950 Chevrolet owner who lived close to the scene of the crime and who had received many traf
A. Crime--A Grave Problem in the West
B. Chevrolet--A Make of an Old Car
C. Computer--A Powerful Aid in Fighting Against Crime
D. Police--A Useful Force in the Fight Against Crime