Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings an

Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same root “port”, which comes from the Latin word, meaning “ to carry” or “ to move” from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning--- Which we call the prefix （前缀）, 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 nouns which are made up of the verbs. Adding a suffix （后缀）“er” to a verb means a person who does this thing. 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.

43. “Some English words are made up of the same part…”, in the sentence “part” means________.

A. different beginnings and different endings

B. the same part which has several meanings

C. the root of a word

D. the same root which has different meanings

44. Which of the following is not true?

A. besides “port”, most English words have the same root which comes from the Latin word.

B. “Port” is the root forming some English words

C. The root “Port” means “to carry”.

D. “Port” is the root meaning “to move” from one place to another.

45. By adding a prefix or a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has _____.

A. the meaning of a Latin word

B. a different meaning

C. the meanings of “in” or “out of”

D. a lot of meanings

46. We can get a noun______.

A. just by adding “er” to “out of”

B. by changing a prefix

C. only by adding “er” to a root

D. by adding a suffix to a verb

47. According to the passage, if we talk about a repairman, you may guess that he must be______.

A. somebody who has regained health

B. a person who can repair something

C. somebody who has good health

D. a person who can do only simple things 

试题答案

43. C 44A 45. B 46. D 47. B