Question

“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings. “Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost everything.
When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say. “It’s cool.” You May think,“He’s so cool,”when you see your favourite football player.
We all maximize(擴大)the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words, such as “new” or “surprising”. Here’s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her student to write about the waterfall(瀑布) they had visited. On the student’s paper was just the one sentence,“It’s so cool.”Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏)of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility(可信性).Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.
【小題1】We know that the word “cool” has had ________.

A．only one meaning	B．no meaning
C．many different meanings	D．the same meaning

【小題2】In the passage, the word “express” means “_______”.

A．see

B．show

C．know

D．feel

【小題3】If you are ________ something, you may say,“It’s cool.”

A．interested in

B．angry about

C．worried about

D．unhappy with

【小題4】The writer takes an example to show he is ______ the way the word is used.

A．pleased with

B．strange to

C．worried about

D．unhappy with

【小題5】In the passage, the writer suggests(暗示)that the word “cool”___________.

A．can be used instead of many words	B．usually means something interesting
C．can make your life colourful	D．may not be as cool as it seems

Answer 1

【小題1】.C
【小題2】B
【小題3】A
【小題4】C
【小題5】D

解析試題分析：這篇短文中主要講述了cool的意思的延展歷史，舊時cool表示溫度有點冷，到后來“酷”可以用來表達幾乎所有感興趣的東西，通過講述一個小故事來證明，沒有“酷”，一些人就沒有言語能表達同樣的意思。
【小題1】細節(jié)理解題 。根據(jù)首句“Cool is a word with many meanings.” 酷是一個多義詞可知，故選C。
【小題2】詞義猜測題。由“Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold”（舊的意思是用來表達
溫度有點冷）的意思可知“express”前后詞義關系可推斷出是“表達”的意思，與“show”同義。故選B. 
【小題3】細節(jié)理解題。由 “Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost everything.（cool用于表示所有感興趣的東西）可知答案，故選A。 
【小題4】細節(jié)理解題 。由On the student’s paper was just the one sentence,“It’s so cool.”(一個學生的試卷上只有一個字cool)。有此例子中的學生用cool 一詞概括出他的所有感受，知cool詞義的擴大會導致語言中詞匯的缺乏，是令人擔憂的。故選C。 
【小題5】主旨大意題。結合On the student’s paper was just the one sentence,“It’s so cool.”(一個學生的試卷上只有一個字cool)。可知作者的擔心cool詞義的擴大會導致語言中詞匯的缺乏，是令人擔憂的，也就是cool并不像他們表面上那么酷 ，故選D。
考點：歷史文化類閱讀。