一篇高中英语阅读理解Many people have tried to simplify the spelling of English words.Unlike other languages,English spells the same sounds in very different ways.For example,there is "light" but "white","loan" but "phone",and there are at l

一篇高中英语阅读理解Many people have tried to simplify the spelling of English words.Unlike other languages,English spells the same sounds in very different ways.For example,there is "light" but "white","loan" but "phone",and there are at l
一篇高中英语阅读理解
Many people have tried to simplify the spelling of English words.Unlike other languages,English 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 the sound "ough"!Each of the following words is pronounced differently:"though","through","bough","cough","enough","ought",and "thorough".
The great Irish writer,George Bernard Shaw,was very interested in making English spelling more logical.The American president Theodore Roosevelt almost succeeded in doing this.
In 1906 one of the richest men in America,Andrew Carnegie,started the Simplified Spelling Board.This Board was a group of people whose plan was to make the spelling of words nearer to the way they sounded.For example,the word "though" would be spelt "tho","through" would become "thru" (which it did,but much later),"enough" would become "enuf",and so on.Other people on the Board were Melvin Dewey,the head of the New York libraries,and Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University.
They took the idea to President Roosevelt who thought it was a very good one.He immediately told the government printer to use the simplified spelling on all government letters.
But people do not like change-even change that makes life easier-and many people disliked the new,simpler spelling.The British-who probably thought they owned the English language-were particularly angry.
More importantly,when American politicians discussed the plan,they did not like it.Because Roosevelt did not want to have a problem with the politicians,he changed his plans and told the printer to go back to the old way of spelling.
Since then no one in any government has dared to try to simplify English spelling.However,people do simplify many words,mainly in advertisements.We often see "tonite" instead of "tonight",for example,and "thru" instead of "through".
51.The passage is mainly about __________.
A.President Roosevelt
B.the attempts(企图,尝试) to simplify English spelling
C.the way that advertisements simplify English spelling
D.how to pronounce English properly
52.People wanted to simplify the spelling of English so that __________
A.words could have several different pronunciations
B.words could be spelt as they were pronounced
C.it was more difficult to read government letters
D.they could establish the Simplified Spelling Board
53.Simplified spelling failed because __________.
A.it was not easy to understand
B.the government didn't like the idea
C.there were too many new words to learn
D.people did not want to change
答案是BBD 为什么最后一个不选B呢,文中不是说More importantly,when American politicians discussed the plan,they did not like it.

一篇高中英语阅读理解Many people have tried to simplify the spelling of English words.Unlike other languages,English spells the same sounds in very different ways.For example,there is "light" but "white","loan" but "phone",and there are at l
前面有一段But people do not like change-even change...
然后再是More importantly...这段
如果只选B那就只争对政界不喜欢简化拼法,但是常人也是不喜欢的.
people可以涵盖不同人群.所以D.

要从 根源上 考虑呀 人本呀 不需要死抠More... 那个字眼的 想简单点
任何一项改革 都需要 有广大人民群众的支持 不是么

they did not like it之后还有一句Because Roosevelt did not want to have a problem with the politicians 这里有个Because说明American politicians 不喜欢不是根本原因，根本原因是老百姓不喜欢，这些政客们怕给自己的政党带来麻烦，在外国议员是老百姓选出来的，老百姓说明意思他们就得什么意思，起...

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they did not like it之后还有一句Because Roosevelt did not want to have a problem with the politicians 这里有个Because说明American politicians 不喜欢不是根本原因，根本原因是老百姓不喜欢，这些政客们怕给自己的政党带来麻烦，在外国议员是老百姓选出来的，老百姓说明意思他们就得什么意思，起码表面上是这样的 呵呵

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