【状元之路】2014-015学年高中英语 单元测评(六)新人教版必修1.doc

单元测评(六)　 (时间：90分钟　满分：110分) 第一部分　阅读理解(共两节；满分30分) 第一节　(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford. Noahs was an ordinary colonial family. At that time, few people went to college, but Noah loved to learn so his parents let him go to Yale, Connecticuts only college. He left for New Haven Noah did not like American schools. Sometimes 70 children of all ages were crammed into one-room schoolhouses with no desks, poor books, and untrained teachers. 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. Most people called it the “Bluebacked Speller” because of its blue cover. For 100 years, Noahs book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time. Ben Franklin used Noahs 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”， “check” instead of “cheque” and “center” instead of “centre”. He also added American words that werent in English dictionaries like “skunk” and “squash”. It took him over 27 years to write his book. When finished in 1828, Noahs dictionary had 70 000 words in it. Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized (美国化) the English language, and edited (编辑) magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843 he was considered an American hero. 语篇解读　本文是一篇人物传记类记叙文。文章主要讲述了Noah的生平经历，以及他致力于将英语美式化、编词典和杂志等贡献，被认为是美国英雄。 1．What is NOT the reason why Noah di