Ⅰ.阅读理解(共两节)
第一节 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。
Indeed,George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785,“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 lightningbug (萤火虫).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.