首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a 【C1】______ word? If you’re 【C2】______ most people, you do one of two th
What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a 【C1】______ word? If you’re 【C2】______ most people, you do one of two th
admin
2010-01-07
53
问题
What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a 【C1】______ word? If you’re 【C2】______ most people, you do one of two things. You ask someone to tell you the word’s meaning, or you look 【C3】______ the word in a dictionary.
The fact that you can look up words in a dictionary can be 【C4】______ to a man named Noah Webster. He produced the first dictionary of American English.
Noah Webster was a person who 【C5】______ words. He was born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758. Webster studied at Yale and later became a teacher and a writer.
In 1782 Webster was teaching at an elementary school in Goshen, New York. He saw that the schoolbooks he was using left 【C6】______ something he felt was important. The books Webster 【C7】______ to use in his teaching came from England. These books were just 【C8】______ for teaching English children. But they paid no 【C9】______ to American culture. Remember, the United States had only just 【C10】______ its independence from England. Americans still educated their children the same way the British 【C11】______ . Noah Webster wanted to give his students an education that was strongly 【C12】______ .
In writing his first dictionary, Webster was preparing for something grander. He had become familiar 【C13】______ many different languages. He felt it was helpful and important to know where words came from their 【C14】______ . He traveled in England and France 【C15】______ research on the histories of English words.
In 1807 he began to work on An American Dictionary of the English Language. Webster was seventy years old when he published the first 【C16】______ of this important work in 1828.
Webster wrote the dictionary completely 【C17】______ hand. In those days people didn’t have ballpoint pens, much 【C18】______ typewriters. He had to use a quill pen, which was a feather with its thickest end 【C19】______ into a point. This point was dipped in a bottle of ink in order to write. A writer using a quill pen had to dip the pen constantly to 【C20】______ the ink.
【C18】______
选项
A、same
B、more
C、similar
D、less
答案
D
解析
根据句意可作此判断。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/vfPd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
TodayTVaudiencesallovertheworldareaccustomedtothesightofAmericanastronautsintip-topcondition,withfairhair,c
RecentsurveysshowthatJapaneseyouthhavebecomea"MeGeneration"thatrejectstraditionalvalues."Around1980manyJa
ThehistoryofresponsestotheworkoftheartistSandroBotticelli(1444—1510)suggeststhatwidespreadappreciationbycritics
Nowadays,manyChineseyouthsareeagertoimitateAmericans.They【C1】______cocacola,loverock-and-rolland【C2】______dyetheir
Sincethemid-1960sSoutheastAsiahasfacedapotentiallywide-rangingsecuritythreat.WellbeforetheeventsofSeptember11,
ProfessorWangwentonalecturetourtoEdinburgh.
"Internet"hascreatedanewvocabularythathascometorepresentahistoricaleraofchange.AskJohnMorse,publisherofMerr
Whatisthemaintopicofthislecture?
ThetramsthatglidethroughCroydonbydayareevocativeofcontinentalEurope.Theloudandsometimesviolentdrunkennessamon
Twomaintechniqueshavebeenusedfortrainingelephants,whichwemaycallrespectivelythetoughandthegentle.Theformerm
随机试题
简述运用示范法教学时应注意的内容。
实现知识内化与积累,达到社会化目标的根本途径是【】
Icannottellthe______differencebetweenthetwins.
企业在资产负债表日提供劳务交易的结果能够可靠估计的,应当采用()确认提供劳务收入。
某会员在期货交易中违约,期货交易所承担违约责任可能使用( )。
下列媒体不属于证券市场公开发布信息的是()。
发现已输入并审核通过的记账凭证有错误时,可采用的修改方法有()。
无权占有[南京大学2014年研]
设A是4×5矩阵,且A的行向量组线性无关,则下列说法不正确的是().
受过良好教育的
最新回复
(
0
)