would become "thru". Other people on the board were Melvil Dewey, the head of the New York libraries, and Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University. They explained their idea to President Roosevelt, who thought that it was indeed logical. He immediately asked the government printer to use simplified spelling in all government letters.

　　But people didn't like the change, even if it made life easier. So the new simpler spelling was not popular. More importantly, when the American politicians (政客) discussed the plan, they did not like it either. Because Roosevelt did not want to have any problems with the politicians, he changed his mind and told the printer to go back to the old way of spelling.

　　Since then no one in any government has dared to simplify English spelling. However, people do simplify some words, mainly in advertisements. For example, we often see "tonite" instead of "tonight" and "thru" instead of "through"．

　　1．Many people have tried to simplify English spelling because ________.

　　A．English words are too long to remember

　　B．there are many mistakes in English words

　　C．lots of words are spelt in many different ways

　　D．sometimes the same sounds have different spellings

　　2．What was Theodore Roosevelt's attitude towards simplified spelling?

　　A．Worried.　　　　 B．Supportive.

　　C．Uncertain. D．Doubtful.

　　3．According to the passage, simplified spelling ________.

　　A．was welcomed by the US politicians

　　B．changed the way the words sound

　　C．has been used widely for over a century

　　D．was first used in US government letters

　　4．Roosevelt's plan to simplify English spelling ________.

　　A．failed in the end

　　B．proved quite successful

　　C．won wide support

　　D．influenced English greatly

　　B

　　The banana is popular all over the world.Its three colours tell you how ripe (熟的)

it is.Green means go and find another banana.Yellow means eat me.Brown means eat me but you don't need to use your teeth to break it up. A banana is neat to eat. When you bite into it, you don't have to worry about the juice.And it's a silent food - you can eat it without driving your