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耐学科网 ©⊙组卷网 莎车县第一中学2022-2023学年度第一学期11月质量检测 高三英语试题 第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A "Belittle"was first used by Thomas Jefferson,the third president of the United States. Many years ago,Buffon,a French naturalist,wrote some books about natural history.The books were a great success even though some critics did not like them.Some critics said,"Buffon is more of a poet than a scientist." Thomas Jefferson did not like what Buffon had said about the natural wonders of the New World.It seemed to Jefferson that Buffon had spoken of natural wonders in America as if they were unimportant This troubled Thomas Jefferson.He was a naturalist,as well as a farmer,inventor,historian,writer and 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 Buffon.At that moment,Jefferson created a new word-belittle.He said."Buffon believes that nature belittles her productions on this side of the Atlantic." Noah Webster,the American word expert,liked this word.He put it in his English language dictionary in 1806,"Belittle-to make somebody or something small,unimportant." Americans had already accepted Jefferson's word and started to use it.In 1797,the Independent Chronicle newspaper 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."This expert failed to kill the word.Today,"belittle"is used where the English language is spoken. 1.What was the reason for Jefferson's creating the new