广安市2017高考英语阅读理解一轮系列训练(18)
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When the seventeenth-century settlers brought the English language to America,they immediately and necessarily began to adapt(使适应)it to their new environment.These changes were clear early and criticized by some people on both sides of the Atlantic.However,after the Revolution,Americans began to be proud of their own form of English.Noah Webster was the major early supporter of American meanings and spellings over British ones and published the earliest American dictionary,An American Dictionary of the English Language.During the years since Webster,language differences have continued to develop,proving(证明)the truth of George Bernard Shaw’s often-repeated words that the two nations are divided by a common language.
Like the American language,the earliest American literature(文学)copied English models.However,after the Revolution and the War of 1812,writers began to create a clear American literature.However,in 1820,Sydney Smith asked the famous question “Who reads an American book?”
Answering to this and similar taunts(讽刺)with creative anger,American writers soon produced works that plenty of British people read.Works by Washington Irving,Walt Whitman,and Mark Twain had been acclaimed greatly in Britain by the end of the nineteenth century.
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