Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same root "port", which comes from the Latin¹ word, meaning"to carry'or"to move"from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning- which we call the prefix²(~S~) -the meaning changes: "import" means "to...... carry in” or "to bring into a country”; export , "ex" means "out of" , so this word means "to carry out of a country"; "re" means "back”, so the word "report” means "to tell somebody to bring back information to somebody"; "transport", "trans" means "across" and it means " to carry across one place to another".

Let's look at the following words: supporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns³ which are made up of the verbs plus a suffix⁴(后辍) ,thus meaning a person who completes the verb. So supporter means somebody who supports. A reporter is somebody who reports. Importer is somebody who imports and exporter is somebody who exports, and so on.

1. In the sentence "Some English words are made up of the same part…'", "part" means _______.

A. different beginnings and different endings

B. the root of a word

C. the same root which has different meanings

D. the same part which has several meanings

2. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A. Apart from"port”, most English words have the same root which comes from the Latin word.

B. "Port" has the root meaning "to move” from one place to another.

C. "Port” is the root forming some English words.

D. The root "port" means "to carry".

3. By adding a prefix or a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has_______.

A. a different meaning B. a lot of meanings

C. the meaning of a Latin word D. the meaning of "in" or" out of"

4. We can get a noun_________.

A. by adding a suffix to a verb B. by changing a prefix

C. just by adding "er" to verbs D. only by adding" er" to a root

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