Unit 4 Growing up-【教材同步拓展阅读】2022-2023学年九年级英语上册（牛津译林版）.docx

2022-2023学年 九年级英语上册单元话题拓展阅读 Unit 4 Growing up 一、任务型阅读 1． 根据短文内容，完成表格。 Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford, where his father farmed and worked as a weaver(织布工). His mother was a housewife. Few people went to college at that time, but Noah loved so much to learn that his parents let him go to Yale, Connecticut's only college.Noah graduated in 1778.He desired(渴望) to study law, but his parents didn't have more money to send him to school. So, in order to make a living, Noah taught in Glastonbury, Hartford and West Hartford.Later he studied law. Noah did not like American schools.Sometimes 70 children of all ages were crammed(挤满) into one­room schoolhouses with poor books and untrained teachers.Their books came from England.Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books, so in 1783, Noah wrote his own textbook A Grammatical Institute of the English Language . Most people called it the "Blue­Backed Speller" because of its blue cover. For 100 years, Noah's book taught children how to read, spell and pronounce words.It was the most popular American book of its time.Ben Franklin used Noah's book to teach his granddaughter to read. When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did that because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak in the same way.He al