题目内容
用括号内动词的正确形式完成下面短文。
In school,I was terrible at spelling. I remember
1. (ask) to spell the fourth day of the week.
“W-E-N-S-D-A-Y”.
“You seem 2. (forget) a few letters,”commented the teacher.
I began to say the letters again, “W-H-E-N-S-D-A-Y”.
“No,” she smiled. “The name Wednesday comes from Norse mythology. The day 3.(name) after the god Odin,also called Woden. So think of it as ‘ Woden's day’. In Old English,it was Wodnesdaeg,and in Middle English,it became Wednesdai. And now,it is Wednesday."
“Why don't we pronounce all the letters?” I asked.
“Well,the pronunciation seems 4.(simplify) but not the spelling. Perhaps in the future,the spelling will change too,but for now,plan5. (write) it like this (Wednesday) ,w she added.
“Can’t we just call it Humpday?” asked a student in the back of the class.
“I don't remember seeing that word in the dictionary, ” replied the teacher. “A word must 6. (accept) formally in dictionaries before we can confidently use it in our writing."
“How does a word become accepted?”
“As more people begin to use a word,it starts to appear more frequently in writing — newspapers, magazines and books — and in speech — conversation,newscasts,and lectures. The more frequently a word occurs,the more likely it is 7.(record) into a dictionary,” she explained.
“So does that mean that we should start using ‘Humpday’ so that we can get it accepted?” asked the student.
The teacher smiled, “You can try,but you’11 still need to be able 8. (spell) Wednesday correctly on your next spelling test.”
1. being asked 2. to have forgotten 3. is named 4. to have been simplified 5. to write 6. be accepted 7. to be recorded 8. to spell
