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  Noah Webster was born in a farmer’s family of 5 children in 1758.After   1  (graduate)from Yale, he   2  (desire)to study law, but his parents couldn’t afford.To make a   3  , he taught in many places and studied law later.

  Condition was poor then.Noah thought Americans should learn from American books.He wrote his own textbook   4  (call)“Blue-Backed Speller” because of its blue cover.The book was the   5   popular book of its time.Many persons benefited from it.Noah started writing the first American dictionary at 43, for he thought all the Americans should speak in the same way.He used American spelling   6   of English and added new words.It   7   him over 27 years to accomplish his dictionary and it came out later.

  Noah did many things in his life.He   8   for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language and edited   9  .He was   10   an American hero when he died in 1843.

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1.graduation 2.desired 3.living 4.called 5.most 6.instead 7.took 8.worked 9.magazines 10.considered


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    1   Amelia Earhart did what no other woman had dared to do, so she is my hero.(改写成同义句)She became the first woman aviator(飞行员)in the world to try to fly around the world.She made it easier for other women to go out and do things only men had done.

  Amelia Earhart lived in Atchison, Kansas.Her parents were Amy and Edwin.She had a sister named Muriel who was named Pidge   2  (介词)a blue pigeon in her favorite song.She didn’t have a very happy childhood, for her father was an alcoholic(酒鬼).When she became a teenager in World War Ⅰ, she served as a volunteer nurse.After the war, she studied at Columbia University.  3  (从属连词)she was doing well in school, she went back to California to be with her parents.One day she went with her father to an“aerial meet”and went on a 10 minute flight over Los Angeles.At that moment, she knew that   4  (fly)was what she wanted to do.

  Amelia had heard of a woman aviation teacher, Anita Snook, and   5  (gave/took)flying lessons with her at Kinner Field near Long Beach, California.In July, Amelia bought a plane and named it“The Canary.”In October, 1922, Amelia began breaking world records and   6  (动词)a women’s highest altitude(海拔高度)record at 14 000 feet.

  On April 27, 1926, Mr.H.H.Railey called Amelia and asked,“  7  (疑问副词)would you like to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?”  8   Mr.Railey had asked by George Putman, a New York Publisher, to find a woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.(改错)No woman had ever flown this far across the Atlantic.Since Earhart had no experience with more than one-engine planes, Amelia went on the flight as a passenger.Two men, Wilmer Stultz and Slim Gordon, were   9  (actual)going to fly the plane.On Sunday, June 3,1928, Amelia went to Nova Scotia to start her flight.Some bad weather held the flight back until June 18, though.They flew through dense fog most of the way and landed in South Wales instead of Ireland with only a bit of fuel left.

  Amelia got all the attention as the   10  (序数词)“girl”to fly across the Atlantic.She was upset that the two men who had actually flown the plane didn’t get any attention.

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