As a young adult, Noah Webster was a teacher. At this 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 wanted books that would mean more to American children. So he wrote three books that used American examples — 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 spellings 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”. People liked 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 write. It was the first American English dictionary, published in 1828. Webster’s dictionary had over 70000 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.
1.Which of the following statements is right?
A. Noah Webster had to borrow books from Britain when he was a student.
B. Noah Webster had his own government when he was very young.
C. When Noah Webster taught at schools, he wrote some story books.
D. As a teacher, Noah Webster wasn’t satisfied with the books he used.
2.The third paragraph mainly tells us that ________.
A. Webster spoke English in a different way
B. American people didn’t write English as exactly as English people did
C. Webster was good at correcting mistakes in textbooks
D. American people didn’t like speaking English
3.In American history, Noah Webster is famous for ________.
A. his teaching methods
B. his dictionary
C. his fighting for freedom
D. learning foreign languages
4.The last sentence of this passage means ________.
A. most dictionaries in the world are the copies of Webster’s
B. most dictionaries in American English have the characteristics of Webster’s
C. most American people followed Webster’s advice on writing
D. Webster’s dictionary is the only one used in the United States
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As a young adult, Noah Webster was a teacher. At this 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 wanted books that would mean more to American children. So he wrote three books that used American examples — 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 spellings 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”. People liked 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 write. It was the first American English dictionary, published in 1828. Webster’s dictionary had over 70000 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.
1.Which of the following statements is right?
A. Noah Webster had to borrow books from Britain when he was a student.
B. Noah Webster had his own government when he was very young.
C. When Noah Webster taught at schools, he wrote some story books.
D. As a teacher, Noah Webster wasn’t satisfied with the books he used.
2.The third paragraph mainly tells us that ________.
A. Webster spoke English in a different way
B. American people didn’t write English as exactly as English people did
C. Webster was good at correcting mistakes in textbooks
D. American people didn’t like speaking English
3.In American history, Noah Webster is famous for ________.
A. his teaching methods
B. his dictionary
C. his fighting for freedom
D. learning foreign languages
4.The last sentence of this passage means ________.
A. most dictionaries in the world are the copies of Webster’s
B. most dictionaries in American English have the characteristics of Webster’s
C. most American people followed Webster’s advice on writing
D. Webster’s dictionary is the only one used in the United States
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Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford. At that time, few people went to college, but Noah loved to learn so his parents let him go to Yale, Connecticut’s only college. He left for New Haven in 1774. Noah’s years at Yale were the years of the Revolutionary War.
Sometimes 70 children of all ages were in one-room schoolhouses with no desks, poor books, and untrained teachers. Noah did not like that. Their books came from England. Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books, so in 1783, Noah wrote his own textbook: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.
For 100 years, Noah’s book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time. Ben Franklin used Noah’s book to teach his granddaughter to read.
When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did this because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English. Noah used American spellings like “color” instead of the English “colour”, “music” instead of “musick” and “center” instead of “centre”. He also added American words that weren’t in English dictionaries like “skunk” and “squash”. It took him over 27 years to write his book. When finished in 1828, Noah’s dictionary had 70,000 words in it.
Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language, and edited (编辑) magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843, he was regarded an American hero.
1.How old was Noah Webster when he went to New Haven?
A. 13 B. 16 C. 20 D. 25
2.How did Noah Webster like American schools in the 1770s?
A. It was impressive. B. It was unusual.
C. It was great. D. It was dissatisfying.
3.Why did Noah write the first American dictionary?
A. He was asked to do it by Ben Franklin.
B. He didn’t like the words used in English dictionaries.
C. He wanted all Americans to speak the same way.
D. He was aware of the fact that the dictionary would make him famous.
4.What can we infer from the text?
A. Noah was a most productive author.
B. Noah studied in Hartford during the Revolutionary War.
C. There had been no books before Noah wrote his textbook.
D. Noah was thought of a hero because of his first American dictionary.
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Some American spellings were created by Noah Webster, ________ made one of America’s first dictionaries.
A.which B.whom C.that D.who
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Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (纸鹤) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manager in a company, and his __1__ didn’t seem too bright, they were very __2__ together until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back. She also told him that she couldn’t see any future for both of them, “so let’s go our own __3__ from now on…” The young man was __4__, but he agreed.
When he regained his __5__, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the _6__ work, this man set up his own __7__.
One rainy day, while this man was __8__, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain, walking to somewhere. He __9__ that they were his ex-girlfriend’s (前女友)parents, so he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to find him in his expensive car and to know that he had his own company, car, etc.
To the man’s surprise, the couple were walking towards a cemetery (墓地). He got out of his car and followed them. And there he saw his ex-girlfriend —a photograph of her __10__ as sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone, and those precious paper cranes in a glass bottle! He walked over and asked the couple why this had happened. They explained that __11__ she did not leave for France at all. She fell ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he would __12_ some day. She didn’t want her __13__ to be his barrier(障碍). Therefore, she chose to leave him. She asked her __14__ to put his paper cranes beside her, because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him.
The man just cried __15__. He was heartbroken once again.
1. A．appearance B．salary C．future D．apartment
2. A．worried B．regret C．happy D．sensitive
3. A．futures B．ways C．goals D．courses
4. A．excited B．mad C．puzzling D．heartbroken
5. A．confidence B．position C．independence D．freedom
6. A．main B．beautiful C．hard D．heavy
7. A．office B．family C．studio D．company
8. A．running B．driving C．walking D．wandering
9. A．recognized B．noticed C．understood D．memorized
10. A．glaring B．talking C．smiling D．crying
11. A．fortunately B．recently C．difficultly D．actually
12. A．come B．make C．succeed D．suffer
13. A．illness B．heart C．cranes D．sadness
14. A．husband B．parents C．friends D．son
15. A．heatedly B．hardly C．excitedly D．sadly
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Like many children, young Lotte Reiniger was crazy about movies, which at the time were a completely new invention. She taught herself how to cut paper silhouettes（剪影）, of people, animals, and objects. I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors,” Reiniger said. “I could paint, too, and read...But everybody was surprised at the scissor cuts”
At first, Reiniger wanted to be an actress, but her skill at making silhouettes drew the attention of the German film industry. Before 1927, films were silent. To help the audience understand the film, title cards with printed text appeared during the film between scenes. Reiniger helped create title cards for films, using her silhouettes. In 1918, she was asked to provide stop-motion animation（定格动面）, in which objects are photographed（拍摄）in a series of slightly different positions and then replayed at high speed so that the objects appear to move on their own, for wooden rats（老鼠）in the movie The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It was a breakthrough that led to her own films, first short films and then, in 1926, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the first full-length animated film.
Although Reiniger once described herself as “a primitive（原始的）caveman artist”, her work is not simple. She carefully cut bits of card, paper, and wire, creating wonderful shapes, and then made them move and dance by hand. The black shapes were then placed on colorful backgrounds. She made more than 60 films, around 40 of which survive, all cut by her own hands. Most were based on timeless fairy tales, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Reiniger was truly a pioneer both in animation and for women in film-making. Though her last film came out in 1980, her style is still influential and can often be seen in today’s films.
1.What do we know about Reiniger’s cuts?
A. People silhouettes were her favorite.
B. Painting and reading helped her cuts.
C. She had a gift for cutting silhouettes.
D. Movies excited her interest in silhouettes.
2.What did Reiniger do to help the audience understand the silent films?
A. She replayed the film between scenes.
B. She cut silhouettes for title cards in films.
C. She broke up long films into shorter ones.
D. She made photos of the objects in the film.
3.What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Creating title cards for films.
B. Making wooden rats for a film.
C. Producing The Adventures of Prince Achmed.
D. Bringing stop-motion animation into a film.
4.Which of the following words can best describe Reiniger?
A. Gifted and generous. B. Creative and productive.
C. Honest and self-confident. D. Traditional and hard-working.
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A young girl is smiling at me from a picture frame on my desk as I write this. She is my child I ______ sponsored from the Philippines. Even though I have never met her in person, she has found a ______ place in my heart. It doesn’t ______ me much to help her, about a dollar a day.______, millions of people in this world live on less. The _____ that helping her gives me, however, is beyond ______. It connects me to her, to life,______ to love.
I can still ______ the first time that I decided to help a child overseas. It was many years ago. I was only a teenager myself and had a little extra ______ each month. I didn’t feel like _____ anything, though. We had _____ everything we had in a house fire a few years before.______ that had taught me a lot. I had learned that I didn’t need a lot of “stuff” to be ______. I had also read a lot about the ______ of children in poor countries around the world. It seemed like a far better thing then to give what I could to help them. With my Mom’s love and _____, I soon found a few organizations like Children International that were _____ others around the world. It felt so good being able to reach out and help another ______. It felt so good being able to make even one life better. I could feel the compassion and ______ growing within me and beginning to change me.
Empathy (同情) does change us. It helps us to _____, to be kind, and to make this world a _____ place.
1.A. even B. once C. still D. seldom
2.A. special B. proper C. necessary D. possible
3.A. matter B. waste C. cost D. save
4.A. Therefore B. Besides C. Otherwise D. However
5.A. wealth B. anxiety C. challenge D. joy
6.A. imagination B. complaint C. price D. reach
7.A. but B. and C. so D. or
8.A. remember B. doubt C. admit D. realize
9.A. money B. time C. energy D. labor
10.A. doing B. buying C. facing D. missing
11.A. stored B. found C. lost D. searched
12.A. Putting aside B. Taking on C. Paying for D. Going through
13.A. happy B. relaxed C. energetic D. positive
14.A. education B. suffering C. tale D. anger
15.A. courage B. belief C. support D. faith
16.A. treating B. praising C. honoring D. serving
17.A. in need B. in peace C. in fear D. in silence
18.A. relief B. empathy C. ease D. guilty
19.A. donate B. think C. love D. sponsor
20.A. bigger B. safer C. smaller D. better
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At a young age, Darrius Simmons fell in love with the piano. As he watched others play, he was _________ by the joy the piano gave them. He wanted to experience that, too, but knew for him it would be a/an _________.
“I decided at age 10 that I wanted to learn how to play the piano, _________ it was going to take a little bit _________ work for me to learn,” Simmons says. “I knew most people had 10 fingers while I had four, yet I was pretty _________ I could make it work.”
The Warren, Ohio teenager was born with a genetic _________ called ectrodactyly (先天性缺指畸形). He has three fingers on his right hand and _________ finger on his left. But it didn’t _________ Simmons from following his _________. With no formal training, Simmons taught himself by ear how to play the piano. He practiced and practiced, finding a way to __________ the keys with four fingers while mastering the pedals with his prostheses(假肢).
Simmons knew he would have to __________ his own style of playing. “I couldn’t base it __________ the technique of somebody who has 10 fingers. It just wouldn’t __________.” He says. “That’s __________ it was hard for me to take piano lessons. It’s very __________ for somebody who has learned how to play with 10 fingers to adjust and teach me with only four.”
The now 18-year-old not only learned how to play and read music but also began composing.
His mother, Tamara Simmons, isn’t surprised by Darrius’ __________. She knows how focused and __________ he can be.
From mastering music to beating __________ challenges, Darrius Simmons sets out to __________ the world. “I like to be somebody’s __________,” he says. “If I play in front of a whole crowd and I see one person smile, that’s a job well done.”
1.A.frightened B.amazed C.interested D.disturbed
2.A.challenge B.opportunity C.fortune D.trouble
3.A.while B.but C.and D.therefore
4.A.more B.much C.fewer D.less
5.A.surprised B.worried C.sure D.glad
6.A.condition B.environment C.situation D.tendency
7.A.one B.two C.three D.five
8.A.encourage B.prevent C.remove D.change
9.A.actions B.roads C.instructions D.passions
10.A.reach B.repair C.remove D.clean
11.A.adopt B.abandon C.develop D.change
12.A.by B.in C.through D.on
13.A.support B.run C.operate D.work
14.A.why B.because C.when D.whether
15.A.easy B.tough C.funny D.stupid
16.A.ideas B.creations C.difficulties D.achievements
17.A.kind B.determined C.talented D.generous
18.A.spiritual B.mental C.physical D.emotional
19.A.please B.persuade C.inspire D.cheer
20.A.partner B.symbol C.aim D.motivation
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As a young man, there was __________ time __________ I hated to go to school .
| A．a; that | B．a; when | C．the; that | D．the; when |
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Don’t call him at this time tomorrow, because he _________ a meeting with his teachers.
A. is having B. is going to have C. will be having D. has been having
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Don’t call him at this time tomorrow, because he ________ a meeting with his teachers.
A. is having B. is going to have C. will be having D. has been having
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