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As a young adult, Noah Webster was a teacher. At that time, the colonies were fighting for independence from Britain, yet the bo
As a young adult, Noah Webster was a teacher. At that time, the colonies were fighting for independence from Britain, yet the bo
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As a young adult, Noah Webster was a teacher. At that time, the colonies were fighting for independence from Britain, yet the books that American children used in school all came from Britain.
The books were all about British people and British places. Webster wrote books with examples that would mean more to the Americans — a grammar book, a spelling book, and a reader. These books were very popular, and millions of them were sold.
Webster was interested in changing the spelling of words. He wanted words to be spelled the way they were pronounced. For example, he thought the word "head" should be spelled "hed", and the word "laugh" should be spelled" laf”.
Many people like Webster’ s suggestions. However, few words were actually changed. One group of words that were changed were words in which an unpronounced "u" followed an "o".
That is why Americans write " color" and " labor”, and the British write " colour" and " labour".
With the money he made from his books, Webster was able to do what he was interested in. It was the first American English dictionary published in 1838. Webster’ s dictionary had over 70,000 words and gave the meaning and origin of each. To this day, Webster’ s work is the example that most dictionaries of American English follow.
According to the first paragraph, Webster wrote books to ________.
选项
A、earn money
B、get rid of Britain people
C、fight for independence
D、give better textbooks for children
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。第一段说,在争取独立的时候,美国孩子用的书都来自英国,而书的内容都是关于英国人和英国的地方。Webster写的书中有很多对美国人意义重大的例子,因此可以推出,Webster写书是为了给美国孩子提供更好的教科书。因此本题选择D。
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