B. Vowels were pronounced longer towards the end of Middle English

　　C. The first English dictionary was published in the early 17th century.

　　D. Many new words entered English because many people moved to Britain.

　　64. From Paragraph 2, we know that the Industrial Revolution __________.

　　A. required spelling and grammar to be fixed

　　B. required a greater number of English words

　　C. caused many old English words to be useless

　　D. led to the English colonization of North America.

　　65. The underlined word “froze” in Paragraph 3 shows that some English words in America___________.

　　A. became longer

　　B. greatly changed

　　C. a little changed

　　D. stayed as they were

　　66. What will the paragraph following this passage most probably discuss?

　　A. The development of Modern English

　　B. How the English vocabulary became larger

　　C. Differences among the different kinds of English

　　D. Differences between Middle English and Modern English

　　D

　　The quality of drinking water in Shanghai will meet European Union standard by 2010 and, a decade later, citizens in Shanghai will drink the best water in the world.

　　These were the goals set out by the Shanghai Water Authority. With the city’s population expected to increase only slightly and the economy to boom by 2020, Chen Yin, and official with the water authority, said Shanghai’s water consumption will not increase from its present amount.

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