【“Cool”canbeusedtoexpressfeelingsofinterestinalmostanything.Whenyouseeafamouscarinthestreet,maybeyouwillsay,“It’scool.”Youmaythink,“He’ssocool,”whenyouseeyourfavoritefootballer.Weallmaximize(扩大)】

　　“Cool”canbeusedtoexpressfeelingsofinterestinalmostanything.

　　Whenyouseeafamouscarinthestreet,maybeyouwillsay,“It’scool.”Youmaythink,“He’ssocool,”whenyouseeyourfavoritefootballer.

　　Weallmaximize(扩大)themeaningof“cool”.Youcanuseitinsteadofmanywordssuchas“new”or“surprising”.Here’saninterestingstorywecanusetoshow

　　thewaythewordisused.Ateacheraskedherstudentstowriteaboutthewaterfall(瀑布)theyhadvisited.Ononestudent’spaperwasjusttheonesentence,“It’sso

　　cool.”Maybehethoughtitwasthebestwaytoshowwhathesawandfelt.

　　Butthestoryalsoshowsascarcity(缺乏)ofwords.Without“cool”,somepeoplehavenowordstoshowthesamemeaning.Soitisquiteimportanttokeepsome

　　credibility(可信性).Canyouthinkofmanyotherwordsthatmakeyourlifeascolorfulastheword“cool”?Ican.AndIthinktheyarealsoverycool.

　　1.Weknowthattheword“cool”hashad____.

　　A)onlyonemeaning

　　B)nomeanings

　　C)manydifferentmeanings

　　D)thesamemeaning

　　2.Inthepassage,theword“express”means_____.

　　A)see

　　B)show

　　C)know

　　D)feel

　　3.Ifyouare____something,youmaysay,“It’scool.”

　　A)interestedin

　　B)angryabout

　　C)afraidof

　　D)unhappywith

　　4.Thewritertakesanexampletoshowheis____thewaythewordisused.

　　A)pleasedwith

　　B)strangeto

　　C)worriedabou

　　D)carefulwith

　　5.Inthepassage,thewritersuggeststhattheword“cool”______.

　　A)cannotbereplacedbyotherwords

　　B)usuallymeanssomethinginteresting

　　C)canmakeyourlifecolorful

　　D)shouldn’tbeoverused