大学英语四级考试听力预测试题(20)_大学英语听力

　　17. Which of the following gives the heat to the pools in New Zealand ?

　　Passage Three

　　About three hundred words in the English language come from the names of people

　　Many of these words are technical words.

　　When there is a new invention or discover

　　a new word may be created after the inventor or scientist.

　　It is interesting to observe how many common words have found their way.

　　into the language from the names of people.

　　Lord Sandwich who lived from 1718--1792

　　used to sit at the gambling table eating slices of bread with meat in between.

　　As the Lord was the only one among his friends who ate bread in that way

　　his friends began to call the bread sandwich for fun.

　　Later on the word became part of the English language.

　　The word boycott means to refuse to have anything with somebody or something.

　　It comes from a man called capitonboycott. he was a land agent in 1880 and he collected rents and taxes for an English landowner in Ireland.

　　But the Captain was a very hard man.

　　He treated his poor tenants very badly.

　　His tenants decided not to speak to him at all.

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