Question

Passage 3 (2015 南京)

    閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容，在文章后第56—65小題的 空格里填入一個最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。

    注意:每個空格只填1個單詞。

    Noah Webster was bom on October 16 ,1758,in the West Divi- sion of Hartford,where his father farmed and worked as a weaver. His mother was a housewife.

    Few people went to college at that time,but Noah loved so much to learn that his parents let him go to Yale,Connecticut's only college.Noah graduated in 1778.He desired (渴 望) to study law,but his parents didn't have more money to send him to school.So,in order to make a living,Noah taught in Glastonbury,Hartford and West Hartford.Later he studied law.

    Noah did not like American schools. Sometimes 70 children of all ages were crammed ( into one-room schoolhouses with poor books and untrained teachers. Their books came from England. Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books,so in 1783,Noah wrote his own textbook A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. Most people called it the 44 Blue-Backed SpellerM because of its blue cover.

    For 100 years,Noah's book taught children how to read,spell,and pronounce words.lt was the most popular American book of its lime.Ben Franklin used Noah^ book to teach his granddaughter to read.

    When Noah was 43 ,he started writing the first American dictionary. He clid that because Americans in different parts of the country spelled,pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak in the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English. Noah used American spellings like color instead of the English colour and music instead of musick. He also added American words that weren^ in English dictionaries like skunk and squash.He spent over 27 years writing his dictionary.When Noah accomplished (完成) his dictionary in 1828,at the age of 70 ,the first American dictionary came out.It had 70,000 words in it.

    Noah did many things in his life.He worked for copyright laws,wrote textbooks,Americanized the English language,and edited magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843,he was considered an American hero.

     Noah Webster and the 1  American Dictionary 

Name ： Noah Webster 

Date of birth：October 16,1758 

Major events：

? 1778： After graduating,Noah had to work as a 2   because his

parents couldn’t 3   his further education.

? 1783 ： Crowded schoolhouses with poor English books and un-trained teachers didn’t4  Noah,lie wrote the textbook of his own. The textbook was so 5  at that time that even Ben Franklin used it to teach his granddaughter to read.

? 1801 ：Noah started writing the first American dictionary because he realized it was 6  for all Americans to speak in the same way.Also,he thought all Americans should speak and spell in their    7  way.

? 1828: The first American dictionary wasn’t 8   until Noah was 70 years old.It 9   him over 27 years to write it.

? 1843 ： Because of his contribution to America,Noah was

considered an American 10  when he died.

Answer 1

Passage 3

[語篇解讀]本文是一篇人物傳記。

Noah Webster.是一個對美國文 化做出重大貢獻(xiàn)的人:他編寫了美國的第一本教科書，用時27年編寫 了美國的第一本詞典，他還在版權(quán)法和英語語言的美國化等方面做出 了杰出的貢獻(xiàn)。因此他被看做美國的英雄。

1. First 根據(jù)第五段第一•句 When Noah was   43. he started writing the first American dictionary.可知，此處應(yīng)填First。由于是文章的標(biāo)題，注意 首字母大寫。

2. teacher 根據(jù)第二段倒數(shù)第二句的 Noah taught in Glastonbury 可知， 畢業(yè)后，為了謀生，他不得不去當(dāng)老師，故填teacher。

3. afford 根據(jù)第二段第三句 He desired (渴望) to study law,but his parents didn't have more money to send him to school. 可知， 他的父母支付不起他上學(xué)的費(fèi)用，故填afford。

4. SatiSfy根據(jù)第三段內(nèi)容可知，Noah不喜歡各個年齡段的孩子擠在 一起上課的美國學(xué)校，也不喜歡來自英國的教科書和沒有經(jīng)過訓(xùn)練 的老師，所以這些都沒有令Noah滿意，故填satisfy。

5. popular根據(jù)第四段第二句可知，Noah自編的教科書非常受歡迎， 故填 popular。

6. necessary 根據(jù)第五段第三句 He thought that all Americans should speak in the same way.可知，他當(dāng)時意識到所有的美國人使用同樣的 方式來講話是必要的，故填necessary。

7. own 根據(jù)第五段第四句 He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English.可知，Noah 想要美國人有自己的 講話和拼寫方式，故填own。

8. accomplished/finished 根據(jù)第五段倒數(shù)第二句 When Noah accomplished (完成 ) his dictionary in 1828.at the age of   70.the first American dictionary came out.可知，Noah直到70歲才完成這本詞典，故填ac-complished 或 finished。

9. took根據(jù)第五段第七句He spent over 27 years writing his dictionary. 可知，Noah花了 27年多編撰了這本詞典。原文用了 spend結(jié)構(gòu)，題 干用了 It takes/took sb. some time to do sth.結(jié)構(gòu)，由于在敘說過去的 事，動詞用一般過去時，故填took。

10. hero根據(jù)文章最后一*段最后一句…h(huán)e was considered an American hero.可知，Noah成了美國的英雄。故填hero。