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  3. All his life Noah Webster devoted himself to the adoption (^: ffl) of an Ame

All his life Noah Webster devoted himself to the adoption (^: ffl) of an Ame

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问题     All his life Noah Webster devoted himself to the adoption (^: ffl) of an American language. He wanted to free Americans from British English as they had freed themselves from the British power. Aiming at this he published three text books:a speller in 1783,a grammar in 1784,and a reader in 1785.
    Webster objected to the way certain words had been borrowed from other languages but had not been respelled. The result,he said,was a disordered mixture of letters,many of which were not pronounced the way they looked,and others of which were not pronounced at all.
    Webster persuaded Americans to simplify their spelling. For example, he insisted that "head"should be spelled"hed"and "bread"should be spelled"bred". Most of Webster’s suggestions did not catch on,but his textbooks sold millions of copies. [br] In the last sentence,the underlined phrase"did not catch on"means______.
选项 A、were not got hold of
B、did not become popular
C、did not please anyone
D、were not wise
答案 B
解析 文中“did not catch on”是指他的建议虽并不流行，而他的书依旧销售这么好。
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