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第二部分实战演练國 Week Seventeen 核心素养三 语言能力 Monday ◆答案227 ■阅读理解 为什么英语拼写这么雅 ©关键词：English spelling难度：3@体裁：说明文 @词数：360@正确率：/4©建议时间：7 English spelling has been changing for over serious mess.Let's take rhyme as an a thousand years and the spelling difficulties we example.It came from the French word rime. have today is the result of many different things But it was changed to rhyme to give it a nicer that have taken place over this time. look.It was an interesting idea,but hardly It was a tricky beginning for English helpful for someone trying to spell the word! spelling.Quite simply,the 23-letter Roman The 16th and 17th centuries saw many extra alphabet has never been enough-even Old letters introduced in this way. English spoken 450 ~1150)had about 35 All these events lead to the messy spelling sounds,and the number is now even bigger.But system we have today.But you know,there are the English spelling was and still is based on the in fact over 80%of words spelled according to Roman alphabet. regular rules. More spelling problems came in when the 1.How many letters are there in the Roman French introduced new spelling rules-their own alphabet? of course,and not always helpful.Using "c" A.23. B.26. instead of "s"for words like city was confusing C.35. D.48. because“c”also sounds“k”in words like cat. 2.Which word is most probably spelt And then printing arrived in the 15th according to the French rules? century一and with it more mess(混乱). A.Sit. B.Cycle. William Caxton who set up the printing C.Calm. D.Knee. machines in the first place )liked Dutch 3.What is Paragraph 5 mainly about? spellings and so he introduced the“gh”in ghost A.Sound changes and ghastly.Some printers were Europeans and B.Silent letters. they introduced favourite spellings too from C.Borrowed spelling rules. their own languages.Such spelling rules were D.Printing mistakes. not helpful either! 4.What is the author's purpose of writing the One of the biggest problems for English text? spelling has always been