M: Well, early on he, like Ben Franklin, was interested in reforming spelling and really making radical changes so that the written language could be read and sound like the spoken language. But I think everybody gave that up as an impossible job after a while。
W: And what was the product that he produced in 1828?
M: In 1828 he produced a dictionary of seventy thousand words that he had been working on for well over twenty yearsactually, I think more like twenty-five years. And he did that because he felt very strongly that the country needed a dictionary to reflect the language that existed here, which was no longer exactly the same as the language that existed in the home country。
W: And what does this dictionary tell us about the American characterwho were we as Americans in 1828?
M: Well, it tells us a lot about Websters character. He was a great moralist. He tells us how to behave. He tells us whats right. He tells us that we should educate our children. He tells us that slavery is evil。
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard。
19. What do we know about the personal experience of Noah Webster according to the conversation?
20. Why did Webster spend over two decades on his dictionary published in 1828?
21. What does his dictionary published in 1828 tell us about Webster?
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