2014届高三英语阅读理解专项突击训练152.docVIP

1、“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of?bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created?lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug?a bug?in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ???????The American燽ug燾ould also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particula