题目内容：

短文综合填空

阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在短文空白处填入一个恰当的词，使短文内容完整、通顺，将所填单词填写在答题卡上相应的题号后。

Language is always changing and developing. That isn’t a bad thing. If English hasn’t changed for a long time， we won’t have words to d   1.  telephones， washing machines， computers or some other new things.

Language changes for s  2.  reasons. First， it changes because the needs of its speakers change. New technologies， new products， and new experiences need new words to e   3.   them clearly. A   4. reason for change is that different people have different language experiences. People use different sets of words and expressions b  5.   they have different ages， jobs， education levels and so on.

How does language d   6.  then? On the one hand， many of the language changes begin with young people. When young people communicate with others of their o   7. age， their language grows in grammar， words and expressions. Some have a short lifetime， but o  8.  have a long life. On the other hand， we get new words in many different ways. We borrow them from other languages， we create them by m   9.  words shorter or putting words together and we make them out of right names.

Language that don’t change over time are c   10.   dead languages. The fact that English changes so much shows that it is a  11.  and well.