选择正确的答案English words don’t stay the same .People need new words for new ideas and new inventions .Different words come into use ,or old words are used in a new way .English can be changed by borrowing words from other languages .The word “tomato”was borrowed from Mexico and “tea ”came from China and so on .Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries ,too.New words can be formed by adding two words together .“Countryside”and

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English words don’t stay the same .People need new words for new ideas and new inventions .Different words come into use ,or old words are used in a new way .
English can be changed by borrowing words from other languages .The word “tomato”was borrowed from Mexico and “tea ”came from China and so on .Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries ,too.New words can be formed by adding two words together .“Countryside”and “earthquake”are made up of two parts .Sometimes new words are shorter forms of old words .The word “photo”was made from “photograph ”by cutting off the end of the longer word .“Plane”was made by cutting off the front part of “airplane”.The names of people and products can become new words ,too .Our “sandwich”was named after a man called Sandwich and “sellotape”（透明胶带）was a name the product .
（）1.New English words are needed because（）
A.people use old words in a new way
B.the population is bigger now
C.the old words are not enough
D.new ideas and inventions appear all the time
（）2.Which of the following words was taken to English from another language
A.Plane B.Sandwich C.Countryside .D.Tomato
()3.Which of the following words came from China .
A.Tea
B.Earthquake
C.Airplane
D.Sello tape
( )4.How many ways of developing English words does the passage tell us .
A.Three
B.Four
C.Five
D.Six
( )5.The main idea of this passage is（）
A.how the English words are developing
B.that there are new ideas in England today
C.how people name new products and inventions .
D.how people use old words in a new way