四川省广安市2015高考英语学案阅读理解练习4及答案解析8月.docVIP

四川省广安市2015高考英语学案：阅读理解练习（4）及答案解析（8月） 【英语卷（解析）·2015届河北省邯郸市馆陶县一中高三7月调研考试（201407）】C5 B Many people have tried to simplify (简化) the spelling of English words. Unlike other languages, English sometimes spells the same sounds in very different ways. For example, there is light but white, loan but phone, and there are at least seven different ways of pronouncing ough: though, through, bough, cough, enough, ought and thorough． The American President Theodore Roosevelt almost succeeded in simplifying English spelling. In 1906,Andrew Carnegie started the Simplified Spelling Board. He was one of the richest men in the United States of America. The boards plan was to make the spelling of words nearer to the way they sound. For example, the word though would be spelt tho and through would become thru． Other people on the board were Melvil Dewey, the head of the New York libraries, and Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University. They explained their idea to President Roosevelt, who thought that it was indeed logical. He immediately asked the government printer to use simplified spelling in all government letters. But people didnt like the change, even if it made life easier. So the new simpler spelling was not popular. More importantly, when the American politicians (政客) discussed the plan, they did not like it either.Because Roosevelt did not want to have any problems with the politicians, he changed his mind and told the printer to go back to the old way of spelling. Since then no one in any government has dared to simplify English spelling. However,people do simplify some words, mainly in advertisements. For example, we often see tonite instead of tonight and thru instead of through． 25.Many people have tried to simplify English spelling because________. A.English words are too long to rememberB. there are many mistakes in English wordsC. lots of words are spelt in many different waysD. sometimes the same sounds have different spellings. 26.Who is NO