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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.
From the last sentence of the passage we know ________.
选项
A、most Americans follow Webster’s advice on writing
B、Webster s dictionary is the most famous one in the U. S.
C、most dictionaries in the U. S. are the copies of Webster’ s work
D、most American English dictionaries have the characteristics of Webster’ s
答案
D
解析
事实理解题。最后一句话的意思是:Webster的作品即字典是大多数美国英语字典遵循的榜样。即其他字典都是参照Webster的字典的编写方式编写的。因此可以推断:它们具有Webster字典的特征。因此本题选择D。
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