题型：语法填空（语篇） 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
浙江省绍兴市2019-2020学年高一上学期英语期末考试试卷
Is English changing? Yes, and so is every other human language! Language is always changing and (meet) the needs of its users. This isn't a bad thing; if English hadn't changed since 1950, we wouldn't have words or expressions to refer to smartphones, fax machines, or cable TV. As long as the needs of language users continue to change, so will the language. The change is so slow from year to year we hardly notice it, except to complain every so often about the 'poor English' being used by the young people! However, reading Shakespeare's writings from the sixteenth century can be difficult. If you go back a couple more (century), Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are really tough, and if you went back another 500 years to try to read Beowulf, it would be like reading different language.
But why does language change? Language changes for several reasons. First, it (change) because the needs of its speakers change. New technologies, new products, and new experiences request new words to refer to them (clear) and efficiently. Consider texting: originally it (call) text messaging, because it allowed one person to send another text rather than voice messages by phone. Later, people became familiar with the new shorter form named text, included both the message and the process, as in the case I just got a text or I'll text Sylvia right now.
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