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classes. They were all about the English people and places. Since he wanted books that would be
interesting to American children, he wrote three books with many American examples.
Webster worked industriously (勤奋地) to change the spelling of American English. He wanted
words to be spelled in the same way they were pronounced (发音). For example, he thought the word
"laugh" should be spelled "1af".
One day he walked into a print shop and gave the boy there a piece of paper. "Young man," he said,
"when you print any please don"t spell as English people do. For example when you print these words
"theatre, centre, colour, and labour (劳动)", please always print them as "theater, center, color,
and labor"." The boy studied it and answered, "OK, but I must ask my boss first."
With the money he made from his books, Webster could start his work, which took him more
than twenty years to finish. In 1828, the first American English dictionary was born. And today,
Webster"s dictionary is thought to be the most important American dictionary in the whole world.
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B. Books about the USA.
C. Books about both Great Britain and the USA.
D. Books that were very interesting.
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B. there were too many mistakes in them
C. American children were not interested in them
D. they were not spelled in the same way they were pronounced
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B. that didn"t sound well
C. whose pronunciations he wanted to change
D. whose spellings he wanted to change
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B. 1820
C. 1828
D. 1858
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试题【阅读理解。 When Webster was young, he was a teacher. But he quickly became tired 】；主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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for her books about China. Pearl S.Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (诺贝尔文学奖)
in 1938. The writer was born in West Virginia, America. She spent almost half of her long life in China.
Her youth was spent in Jiangsu Province, China. She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak
English. Her mother had traveled widely in her youth and liked literature very much. After being educated
by her mother and by a Chinese teacher, Pearl S. Buck went to school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen.
She continued her education in the United States at a Woman"s College to study psychology (心理学).
After graduating in 1914, she returned to China as a teacher. In the 1920s her family moved to Nanjing.
There she taught English and American literature at a university. As a writer, Buck"s book, The Good Earth,
appeared in 1931 and sold quite well in its first year. It has been translated into over thirty languages.
In 1938 she became the third American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the time of her death,
Pearl had published (出版) more than seventy books. Pearl S.Buck died in March, 1973, just two months
before her 81st birthday.
( )1. Before she went to school in Shanghai, Pearl S.Buck studied all by herself.
( )2. Pearl S.Buck was known to many people for her books about China．
( )3. In 1914, Pearl S.Buck worked as a literature teacher at.a university in Nanjing.
( )4. Pearl S.Buck went to study literature at a Woman"s College in America.
( )5. Pearl S.Buck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 and published over seventy books in her life.
He was born in England in 1809. He wasn"t the best student in his school, but when he was 16,his father
sent him to a medical school. Charles liked spending time outdoors observing (观察) nature more than
attending medical classes. He dropped out without graduating.
Next, Charles" father sent him to school to become a minister (牧师). This time he made it to graduation.
But he didn"t want to do the work of a minister. His friends encouraged him to follow his interest in science.
After graduation, Charles was invited to sail on the Beagle as an unpaid scientist. He wasn"t the first
choice but he was the lucky one to go. The Beagle was to travel to South America and then around the world.
The crew"s task was to make maps of the places they visited.
On December 27th,1831, Charles Darwin sailed from England on the Beagle. The trip was planned to
last two years. In fact, it lasted five. During this time, he saw many amazing things. He collected lots of
plants and animals and took them back to England to study.
Twenty-three years later, Darwin published a scientific paper with another man named Wallace. Darwin
described how some animals have adaptations that help them survive. They are passed on to offspring (后代).
B. the work of a minister
C. sailing around the world
D. science
B. plane
C. plant
D. animal
B. twenty-two
C. forty-five
D. fifty
B. Darwin and Wallace
C. animals
D. DarWin"s ideas
B. Some animals have adaptations so that they can survive.
C. Darwin published a scientific paper with his own name.
D. Darwin was first chosen to sail on the Beagle.
Cincinnati on 18 December 1946. His father was an electric engineer and his mother was a
performing pianist. His sister, Anne Spielberg, became a screenwriter who wrote the stories
for many famous films.
Stephen had always wanted to be a director ever since he was a young boy. When he was
just 13 years old, he made a 40-minute film. It won a local competition. Three years later, he
produced a film called Firelight, which made one hundred dollars" profit at the cinema in his
hometown. Many of the ideas from this film were later used for one of his most famous films
called Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
When he was 18 years old, he wanted to go to film school so that he could improve his skills
and become an even better director. Unluckily, he was unsuccessful in getting a place at this
school so he went to a university in California to study English. Even though he had failed to
get into the school he wanted to go to, he didn"t let this stop him following his dream to become
a great director.
Stephen Spielberg has directed many films since his first major film in 1976. He now owns
many different businesses, most of which are involved in the film industry.
| Year | What happened | ||||||
| 1946 | 1. Stephen Spielberg _____ _____ in Cincinnati. | ||||||
| 1959 | 2. Stephen Spielberg made a _____ film and it _____ a local competition. | ||||||
| 1962 | 3. Stephen Spielberg produced a film called _____, from which many were later used for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. | ||||||
| 4. _____ | Though he _____ to get into the film school he wanted to go to, Stephen Spielberg didn"t give up his dream to become a great director. | ||||||
| 1976 | 5. Stephen Spielberg _____ his _____ major film. | ||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||
| Liu Qian is a magician (魔术师) from Taiwan. For the CCTV Spring Festival Gala (春晚) he put on two magic shows. They were very 1 . Now everyone is mad about magic. We all want to know 2 a trick! Liu didn"t go to any magic school. He learned 3 . He worked hard at it. Now he is a great 4 . When Liu was seven, he saw a coin trick in a big store. At that 5 , Liu decided to learn magic. Liu practiced hard 6 his skills. Then one day he was able to put on a show for his class. "I saw the 7 on everyone"s face. It was cool." Liu still practices hard today. He may spend three years 8 on a new show. Many people fell in love 9 magic after Liu"s two shows. They"re studying how Liu"s tricks work. I hear that one boy can do the tricks in Liu"s show. He is a top student in my class. Everyone likes him. I can"t wait 10 his shows! Sun Wei from Xi" an loved magic when he was younger. He spends lots of time studying how to play tricks. Now he could do card tricks really well. | |||||||
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