“Indeed”George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly,or bug,had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug.When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(螢火蟲). But the Enlish were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to be the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity.Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burlar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install(安裝) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversations.Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant “to cheat”,and since the 1994s it has been annoying.
We also know the bug as a flaw n a computer program or other design.That meaning dates back to the time of Tomas Edison.In 1878 he explained bugs as “l(fā)ittle problems and difficulties” that required months of stdy and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering′a bug′ in his invented record player.”
小題1:We learn from Paragraph 1 that         .
A．American had difficulty in learning to use the word “bug”.
B．George Washinton was the first person to call the insect a bug.
C．the word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth century.
D．both the Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the gighteen century.
小題2:What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph mean？
A．Explanation.
B．Finding.
C．Origin.
D．Fault.
小題3:The passage is mainly concerned with         .
A．the misunderstanding of thr word bug
B．the deveopment of the word bug
C．the public views of the word bug
D．the special characteristics of the word bug

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:B

【文章大意】這是一篇敘述英語習(xí)語的小短文。主要敘述英語習(xí)語a littl bug的語義演變過程。
小題1:根據(jù)文章的第一段第三句話進(jìn)行選擇。
小題2:根據(jù)文章的最后一句話進(jìn)行推斷。
小題3:根據(jù)文章中的幾個(gè)時(shí)間和bug含義的變化進(jìn)行推斷。
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