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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Is English changing? Yes, and so is every other human language! Language is always changing and 1.(meet) the needs of its users. This isn’t a bad thing; if English hadn’t    changed since 1950, we wouldn’t have words or expressions to refer to smartphones, fax machines, or cable TV. As long as the needs of language users continue to change, so will the language.  The change is so slow 2.  from year to year  we hardly notice it, except to    complain every so often about the ‘poor English’ being used by the young people! However, reading Shakespeare’s writings from the sixteenth century can be difficult. If you go back a couple more3.(century), Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are really tough, and if you went back another 500 years to try to read Beowulf, it would be like reading4. different language.

But why does language change? Language changes for several reasons. First, it5.(change) because the needs of its speakers change. New technologies, new products, and new experiences request new words to refer to them  6.(clear) and efficiently. Consider texting: originally  it 7.(call) text messaging, because it allowed one person to send another text rather than voice messages by  phone. Later, people became familiar with the new  shorter  form  named text, 8. included both the message and the process, as in the case I just got a text or  I’ll text Sylvia right now.