중3 동아 윤정미 3과 본문 변형문제

Lesson 3 Stories of English Words and Expressions

English Words of Foreign Origin

English has often borrowed words from other cultures or ____

Here are some ____ with interesting stories.




shampoo

The word shampoo comes ____ the Hindi word chāmpo, which means “to press.”

____ India, the word was used for a head massage.

British traders in India experienced a ____ with a head massage and introduced it to Britain in the 18th century.

The meaning of the word shampoo changed a few times after it first entered ____ around 1762.

In the 19th century, shampoo got its present meaning ____ “washing the hair.”

____ after that, the word began to be also used for a special soap for the hair.




robot

The word robot comes from the play R.U.R., which was ____ in 1920 by a Czech writer Karel Čapek.

In the play, robots ____ machines that look like humans.

They are designed to work ____ humans and are produced in a factory.

It is interesting that the idea of using the word robot didn’t come from ____ Čapek himself.

He ____ called the machines in his play labori from the Latin word for “work.”

However, his brother suggested roboti, ____ means “slave workers” in Czech.

Karel Čapek liked the idea and decided to ____ the word roboti.

In 1938, the play was made into a science fiction show on television in ____



hurricane

The word hurricane comes ____ the Spanish word huracán, which originates from the name of a Mayan god.

In the ____ creation myth, Huracán is the weather god of wind, storm, and fire, and he is one of the three gods who created humans.

____ the first humans angered the gods, so Huracán caused a great flood.

The first Spanish contact with the Mayan ____ was in 1517.

Spanish explorers who were ____ through the Caribbean experienced a hurricane and picked up the word for it from the people in the area.

In English, one of the early uses of hurricane was ____ a play by Shakespeare in 1608.




hamburger

The word hamburger originally comes from Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest ____

Hamburger means “people ____ things from Hamburg” in German.

The origin of the first hamburger ____ not clear.

However, it is believed that the hamburger was invented in a small town in ____ USA, sometime between 1885 and 1904.

A cook placed ____ Hamburg-style steak between two slices of bread, and people started to call such food a hamburger.



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