高考英语一轮复习 第一部分 基础考点聚焦 Unit2 Poems单元检测同步探源 新人教版选修6

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解A

　　(2016·山西省五校高三联合测试)Many years agoss even though some critics(批评家)did not like them.Some critics saidomte de Buffon had spoken of natural wonders in America as if they were unimportant.

　　This troubled Thomas Jefferson.He was also a naturalist，as well as a farmer，an inventor，a historian，a writer and a politician.He had seen the natural wonders of Europe.To him，they were no more important than those of the New World.

　　In 1788，Thomas

　　Jefferson wrote about his home state，Virginia.While writing，he thought of its natural beauty and then of the words of Comte de Buffon.At that moment，Jefferson created a new word－belittle.He saidAmericans had already accepted Jefferson’s word and started to use it.In 1797，the Independent Chronicle used the word to describe a politician the paper supported.“He is an honorable man，”the paper wrote，“so let the opposition try to belittle him as much as they please.”

　　In 1872，a famous American word expert decided that the time had come to kill this word.He said，“Belittle has no chance of becoming English.And as more critical writers of America，like those of Britain，feel no need of it，the sooner it is forgotten，the better.”

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