The study found that 40 percent of the respondents would support updating words that caused problems while 16 percent opposed the idea.And 31 percent said it didn't matter.

　　The US survey involving a sample of 1,000 adults was carried out online by Ipsos MORI last month，with the method based on a survey of 1,000 Britons in April last year.

　　【语篇解读】 一项调查发现，美国人在单词拼写方面不如英国人。

　　1．The underlined word “inaccuracy” in Paragraph 3 can best be replaced by ________.

　　A．success

　　B．error

　　C．correctness

　　D．growth

　　答案　B　[词义猜测题。根据本句的“showed the need for the English spelling system to be modernized”，联系第二段英美成年人较高的拼写错误率，可知inaccuracy可用error来代替，都是“错误”的意思。]

　　2．The underlined part “this is far from the case”

　　in Paragraph 3 implies that ________.

　　A．most of the Americans can spell correctly

　　B．there are more people having spelling problems

　　C．adults perform worse in spelling than kids

　　D．it is difficult to create a new spelling system

　　答案　B　[推理判断题。联系上一句“When asked，only a quarter of adults thought they had a problem with spelling”可知，Bovill是想说，这项研究表明，实际上很多人都存在拼写问题。]

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