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阅读材料，完成下列要求。 材料一：罗马原是意大利中部的一个蕞尔小邦。在成功解决内部矛盾后，它凭借强大的由公民组成的军队首先征服了意大利；接着向地中海地区扩张，先后征服了从西班牙到两河流域的整个地中海周边地区，扩张成为一个地跨欧亚非三洲的大帝国，把整个地中海变成了罗马的内海。在扩张过程中，罗马把被征服地区的大量居民卖为奴隶，奴隶制迅速发展起来，各地区之间的经济联系和贸易往来进一步加强。罗马帝国在各征  It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing. I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.Email reminds me, of course， of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun． I wasn’t really sure whether people said this，but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.In the late 1980s I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like “I’ll page you as soon as I know what time we’re meeting”. They couldn't say it to me, though; 1 refused to have one． So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message （either spoken or written）for them on their phone．Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ll start using it myself! 　小题1:“I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means          .A．it was a firm arrangement　　　　　　　B．it was an uncertain arrangementC．the arrangement should be written as a diaryD．he prefers a pencil to a pen小题2:A website address can be easily found if it has been＿____.A．emailed B．messaged C．favoritedD．texted小题3:Which of the following has not been used as a verb, yet?A．messageB．pageC．email D．mobile小题4:The best title for this passage is____．A．New Verbs from Old NounsB．The Development of the English languageC．New Technology and New wordsD．Technology and Language.