One look at the supposed tomb of Shakespeare shows how much English spelling can change.The word friend is spelled as frend on the sign above the tomb.

　　1．The underlined word “pointless” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by “

　　”．

　　A．meaningless

　　B．practical

　　C．attractive

　　D．necessary

　　答案　A

　　解析　词义猜测题。由下文中的内容可知在英语中有不少词音同义异或是拼写繁冗，所以pointless在此应该是表示“毫无意义”。

　　2．The words “meet” and “meat” are mentioned in Paragraph 2 to show that

　　.

　　A．similar words may have the same meaning

　　B．different words surely have different meanings

　　C．some words sound the same but have different meanings

　　D．some words sound different but have the same meaning

　　答案　C

　　解析　细节理解题。由第二段最后一句“The two words sound the same，but they mean very different things.”可知，之所以提到这两个词是为了说明英语中有些词发音相同，但是意思不同。

　　3．The word “synaesthetic” is spelled as “synesthetic” probably because

　　.

　　A．the latter is the classical spelling

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