题目内容
语法填空
阅读下面短文,根据上下文填入适当的词语,或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空。
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 m 9 .He was 10 an American hero when he died in 1843.
解析:
1.graduation
2.desired
3.living
4.called
5.most
6.instead
7.took
8.worked
9.magazines
10.considered