3．"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 hade been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century，and Americans had already created lightning-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．Although fan became the usual term，sports fans used to be called racing bugs，baseball bugs，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 1878he explained bugs as"little problems and difficulties"that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product．In 1889it was recorded that Edison"had been up the two previous nights discovering‘a bug'in his invented record player．"
68．We learn from Paragraph 1thatD．
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 Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century
69．What does the word"flaw"in the last paragraph probably mean？D．
A．Explanation． B．Finding． C．Origin． D．Fault．
70．The passage is mainly concerned withB．
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．
分析 本文屬于記敘文閱讀，作者通過這篇文章向我們介紹了"bug"一詞的演變過程，并列舉了歷史上著名的名人的例子幫助讀者理解．
解答 68．D 細節理解題．根據第一段"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．提到喬治華盛頓在1785年用到這個詞匯，而第一段最后一句話But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language英國很快就不用這個詞，美國卻在19和20世紀繼續使用．推斷出18世紀英國還在用，故選D．
69．D 細節理解題．根據最后一段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．我們也知道錯誤是一個計算機程序或其他設計的一個缺陷，故這個單詞用來說明電腦出現故障，故選D．
70．B 主旨大意題，通讀全文可知本文主要講述了"bug"一詞的演變過程，故選B．
點評 考查學生的細節理解和推理判斷能力．做細節理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句，和題干進行比較，再做出正確選擇．在做推理判斷題時不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實，要根據文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷．
