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C公据许两共用售，代陪三明Which author has invented the most English words?William Shakespeare might seemto be the obvious champion,since he is famous for the creativity of his language and he usedmore than 20,000 distinct words in his plays and poems.He has challengers for the title ofNo.1 neologist(新语创造者)，and the winner depends on what counts as inventing a new wordSometimes it's easy to see that a writer has coined a new word.When John Miltonneeded a name for Satan's capital in his poem Paradise Lost,he coined Pandemonium.Readers thought this was not only a fitting name for the capital of hell()but also auseful description for the chaos there.Pandemonium now means a wild chaos.Authors invent lots of words that don't catch on,though.Lewis Carroll is famous forinventing such words,which were coined for a particular occasion but never adopted intogeneral use.His poem Jabberwocky includes,among other words,frumious,mims andslithy.But these words are not found in dictionaries.Should invented words count towardan author's total?Then there are the majority of words coined by authors,which involve categoryswitches-transforming adjectives into nouns,nouns into verbs,and so on-rather thandreaming up completely new terms.Hundreds of words like critical (from critic),are如attributed to(归功于)Shakespeare,Do these count as well?中Shakespeare also gets credit for as many as 1,000 words that were already common in部the late 16th and early 17th centuries,simply because he is so famous.When the editors ofOthe Oxford English Dictionary (OED)were collecting sayings in the 19th century,they长were familiar with his plays.If they couldn't find any earlier examples in libraries,they部assumed that England's greatest writer must have coined it.Now that the Internet hasmade it so easy to search texts,writers of dictionaries are discovering Shakespeare was not,分in fact,the first recorded user of many of the words attributed to him.OThe answer to the question,then,remains a rather disappointing "it depends"舒28.What does the author want to show by Shakespeare's example?.A到A.To introduce the topic.i八新B.To illustrate the value of literature.C.To recognize Shakespeare as No.1 neologist.D.To prove the importance of inventing new words.智29.What did readers think of the word "Pandemonium"?61粗A.It was of no use.B.It didn't catch on.C.It failed to describe that scene.D.It was invented properly.30.Why did earlier OED editors think Shakespeare was the first user of many words?A.They lacked basic knowledge.B.Shakespeare was too famous to ignore.C.They were not responsible for their job.D.Shakespeare recorded the words for them to check.31.Which of the following does the author probably agree with?A.Shakespeare has invented the most English words.B.It's hard to say who invented the most English words.C.Words coined by Shakespeare were completely new terms.D.The Internet has made Shakespeare's works more popular.神州智达英语·调研卷I第5页（共10页）扫描全能王创建

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