“Indeed，” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1985, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lighining-bug(螢火蟲)。But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Althoug fan became the usual term. sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseballbugs, and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安裝) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.
We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “l(fā)ittle problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a(chǎn) bug’ in his invented record player.”
小題1:We learn from Paragraph 1 that ___________.
A．Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug
B．George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug
C．the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century
D．both Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century
小題2:What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?
A．Explanation.B．Finding.C．Origin.D．Fault.
小題3:The passage is mainly concerned with__________.
A．the misunderstanding of the word bug
B．the development of the word bug
C．the public views of the word bug
D．the special characteristics of the word bug

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:B

試題分析：本文是一篇故事。文章講述了英語bug一詞的發(fā)展變化。
小題1:D考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)文章第一段中的When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century,和But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.可知，在18世紀美國人和英國人都使用bug這個詞匯。故選D。
小題2:D考查猜測詞義。根據(jù)文章第四段中的In 1878 he explained bugs as “l(fā)ittle problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product.可知，flaw意為：little problems and difficulties，缺點和不足。故選D。
小題3:B考查文章的主旨要義。文章通過華盛頓使用bug一詞的故事，闡述了美語和英語詞匯發(fā)展的變化。
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