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What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a (21) word If you’re (22) most people, you do one of two things. You ask someone to tell you the word’s meaning, or you look (23) the word in a dictionary.

The fact that you can look up words in a dictionary can be (24) to a man named Noah Webster. He produced the first dictionary ofAmericanEnglish.
Noah Webster was a person who (25) words. He was born in West Hartford,Connecticut in 1758. Webster studied at Yale and later became a teacher and a writer.
In 1782 Webster was teaching at an elementary school in Goshen, New York. He saw that the schoolbooks he was using left (26) something he felt was important. The books Webster (27) to use in his teaching came fromEnglanD、These books were just (28) for teachingEnglish children.But they paid no (29) toAmerican culture. Remember, the United States had only just (30) its independence fromEnglanD、Americans still educated their children the same way theBritish (31) . Noah Webster wanted to give his students an education that was strongly (32) .
In writing his first dictionary, Webster was preparing for something grander. He had become familiar (33) many different languages. He felt it was helpful and important to know where words came from their (34) . He traveled inEngland and France (35) research on the histories ofEnglish words.
In 1807 he began to work onAnAmericanDictionary of theEnglish Language. Webster was seventy years old when he published the first (36) of this important work in 1828.
Webster wrote the dictionary completely (37) hanD、In those days people didn’t have ballpoint pens, much (38) typewriters. He had to use a quill pen, which was a feather with its thickest end (39) into a point. This point was dipped in a bottle of ink in order to write.A、writer using a quill pen had to dip the pen constantly to (40) the ink.
A、sureB、suchC、certainD、some