Fortuitous formerly denoted"happening by chance" and later took on the meaning"fortunate". Such change of word-meaning is caused by（ ）.
A、the influx of borrowings
B、psychological factors
C、historical reason
D、analogy
【正确答案】：D
【题目解析】：本题考察英语词汇的来源以及演化。"the influx of borrowings"意为”借来词“，"psychological factors" 意为“心理因素”，"historical reason" 意为“历史原因”，"analogy" 意为”类比；类推；类似，模拟”。本题中，题干意思为“Fortuitous"这个词本身的意思为”偶尔发生“，后来变成了”fortunate“的意思，这种词义的变化原因是什么导致的？因为”fortuitous"与"fortunate"的词形相似，此处含义的变化是因为词的类比。故选D。
