高考英语阅读训练（084）

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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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1 Latin
adj.拉丁的，拉丁语的，拉丁人的；n.拉丁语
参考例句：
She learned Latin without a master.她无师自通学会了拉丁语。 Please use only Latin characters.请仅使用拉丁文字符。

2 prefix
n.前缀；vt.加…作为前缀；置于前面
参考例句：
We prefix "Mr."to a man's name.我们在男士的姓名前加“先生”。 In the word "unimportant ","un-" is a prefix.在单词“unimportant”中“un”是前缀。

3 nouns
n.名词；名词( noun的名词复数 )
参考例句：
French differs from English in having gender for all nouns. 法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。来自《简明英汉词典》 Nouns join to form compounds. 名词和名词结合构成复合词。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 suffix
n.后缀；vt.添后缀
参考例句：
We add the suffix "ly" to make the adjective "quick" into the adverb " quickly ".我们在形容词“ quick”后加“ly” 构成副词“quickly”。 It described the meaning of suffix array and also how to built it.它描述的含义，后缀数组以及如何建立它。