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As everyone knows, words constantly take on new meanings. Since these do not necessarily, nor even usually, take the place of the old ones, we should picture this process as the analogy of a tree throwing out new branches which themselves throw out subordinate branches. The new branches sometimes overshadow and kill the old one but by no means always. We shall again and again find the earliest senses of a word flourishing for centuries despite a vast overgrowth of later senses which might be expected to kill them. When a word has several meanings historical circumstances often, make one of them dominant during a particular period. Thus "station" is now more likely to mean a railway station than anything else; "speculation" more likely to bear its financial sense than any other. Until this century "plane" had as its dominant meaning "a flat surface" or "a carpenter’s tool to make a surface smooth", but the meaning "an ae
A. we can do nothing about it unless we get into print
B. we should take responsibility to the language if necessary
C. our conversation has little effect on the situation because we haven't got into print
D. a great mass of people will accept what the press prints so that we can encourage the good and resist the bad

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As everyone knows, words constantly take on new meanings. Since these do not necessarily, nor even usually, take the place of the old ones, we should picture this process as the analogy of a tree throwing out new branches which themselves throw out subordinate branches. The new branches sometimes overshadow and kill the old one but by no means always. We shall again and again find the earliest senses of a word flourishing for centuries despite a vast overgrowth of later senses which might be expected to kill them. When a word has several meanings historical circumstances often, make one of them dominant during a particular period. Thus "station" is now more likely to mean a railway station than anything else; "speculation" more likely to bear its financial sense than any other. Until this century "plane" had as its dominant meaning "a flat surface" or "a carpenter’s tool to make a surface smooth", but the meaning "an ae
A. their dominant meanings have not been determined
B. sometimes they mean something different from their dominant meanings
C. our natural impulse makes a mistake
D. the dominant sense of a word is not accurate in our minds

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As everyone knows, words constantly take on new meanings. Since they do not necessarily, nor even usually, take the place of the old ones, we should picture this process as the analogy of a tree throwing out new branches which themselves throw out subordinate branches. The new branches sometimes overshadow and kill the old one but by no means always. We shall again and again find the earliest senses of a word flourishing for centuries despite a vast overgrowth of later senses which might be expected to kill them.
When a word has several meanings historical circumstances often make one of them dominantduring a particular period. Thus "station" is now more likely to mean a railway-station than anything else; "speculation" more likely to bear its financial sense than any other. Until this century "plane" had as its dominant meaning "a flat surface" or "a carpenter’s tool to make a surface smooth",
A. their dominant meanings have not been determined
B. sometimes they mean something different from their dominant meanings
C. our natural impulse makes a mistake
D. the dominant sense of a word is not accurate in our minds

[单项选择]The more he knows about his new colleague, ______.
A. the much he likes to work with him
B. he likes to work with him more
C. the more he likes to work with him
D. the more does he like to work with him

[单项选择]In America, colleges usually take new students according to ______.

[单项选择]Such a skilled tennis player knows how to take ______ of his opponent's (对手) chief weakness.
A. use
B. advantage
C. utility
D. chance

[单项选择]Her words offended me.
A. made angry
B. made happy
C. made excited
D. made disappointed

[单项选择]Coca-Cola is to take new action most probably because ______.

[单项选择]The formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class is called ______. ( )
A. prefixation
B. suffixation
C. acronymy
D. conversion

[单项选择]– Would you do me a favor and take me the box upstairs – _____.
A. My pleasure
B. Never mind
C. With pleasure
D. I’m glad to hear that

[单项选择]How would anthropologists take the new findings
A. They would look at them dubiously.
B. They would eagerly apply them to the study of human evolution.
C. They would challenge them, though at first glance they tend to look at them favorably.
D. They would most probably think the new findings fit well into their theory.

[单项选择]Mother told me to take an umbrella with me; it might {{U}}come in handy{{/U}}, she said.
A. be convenient
B. be useful
C. get cloudy
D. start raining