四川省部分市2023-2024学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题汇编：七选五

四川省部分市 2023-2024学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编 七选五 四川省成都市2023-2024学年高一上学期1月期末英语试题 第二节(共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5分) 根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项, 选项中有两项为多余选项。 We can study language change using language corpora (语料库) like the Cambridge English Corpus, which contains a large collection of texts gathered over many years. ___16___ Changes in adverbial meaning. A large change in language that we recorded in our research is the change in terms of frequency (频率) of the adverb “literally”, which in the 2010s was almost ten times more frequent than in the 1990s, for example. ___17___ There has also been a notable change in meaning with the 2010s seeing much more metaphorical (比喻的) use of literally than before e.g. “oh I literally haven’t moved all day”. This is important, as if someone had not moved in the slightest for a whole day, then we might grow a little worried for them. This of course was not what the speaker meant. ___18___ Technology. Creativity in language often assumes creativity in the wider world. and technology is a great driver of this. Think about companies like WeChat or WhatsApp. which were founded in 2011 and 2009 respectively. In 2007, if you were to say “I’ll whatsapp you”, no one would have understood. ___19___ In fact, in the Now Corpus there are no examples of the word WhatsApp in 2010, while in 2018 there were over 50,000 examples. ___20___ The word “wicked”, for example, was originally used as a negative word. But a study shows that in spoken British English, wicked is used more positively like “well wicked” in the 2010s, An important thing to know is that if someone calls something wicked. it is not necessarily bad. A. Changes in positive and negative words. B. Changes in the position of words in a sentence. C. Rather, the speaker was most likely to stress a fact. D. Here are three findings from the study of such data. E. However, frequency is not the only point of interest. F. Fortunately language change is happening all around us. G. But now the frequency