2013年山东省济宁市中考英语试题及答案flash版(6)

release your hand，the call will close．It is fashionable and useful．But it will certainly be an embarrassing moment when your dress rings in public．
  Air Conditioned Jackets 
  You will love these air-cooled jackets in summer time，when it is very hot outdoors．The jacket has fans that draw air in．The fan is powered by an inside battery．Now it is possible to spend nearly every second of your day with cool air．
                            
46. What’s the main purpose of the first dress?
A. To protect the wearer.                        B. To scare your classmates.
  C. To make the wearer look better.          D. To help sell more Coca Cola.
47. The underlined word release in the 2^nd paragraph means ________.
  A. put up                 B. put down           C. put on        D. put out
48. The second dress is called M-Dress probably because ________.
  A.       it is made by men                             B. it is made for men    
C.       it is medium-sized                                   D. it is also a mobile phone
49. The best title for the second paragraph is ________.
  A. A Fashionable and Useful Dress          B. M-Dress That Is Also Your Phone   
C. An Embarrassing Moment in Public    D. A Mobile Phone with a Standard SIM Card
50. Which of the following is TRUE of the Air Conditioned Jackets?
  A. They keep you warm in winter.           B. The fans must be turned by hand.
  C. The fans in them provide cool air.     D. The ice in them makes them cool.         
D

Did you know the meaning of a word may change over time? Many English words we know now had different meanings a long time ago. One example is the word nice. Around the year 1300, nice was first used in English to mean “stupid（silly）”. Two hundred years later, nice began to carry a “better” meaning. If people said a book was written nicely, they meant the book was written “clearly” or “carefully”, not “stupidly”. After 1800, nice began to take its meaning like “kind” or “friendly”. Since then, people have thought of nice as a word with good meanings. A good change of a word’s meaning like this example of nice is called AMELIORATION. Though we don’t use nice to mean “stupid” any more, it is fun to know how much a word’s meaning can change from its start! For more examples of AMELIORATION, see next page.