阅读理解。阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。“GeorgeWashington?Wasn'thethepresidentwhocutdownthecherrytreeandinventedelectricity?”saidataxidriv

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阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　“George Washington? Wasn't he the president who cut down the cherry tree and invented electricity?” said a taxi driver in Washington D. C. the capital of the United States.

　　No he wasn't．The cherry tree story is a myth(神话) and it was another Founding Father Benjamin Franklin who is praised for electricity.

　　But this sort of misinformation about early US history is all too common especially among young Americans. A survey of seniors from the country's top colleges and universities found that only 34 percent know that George Washington led the 1781 battle at Yorktown the last major battle of the War of Independence.

　　“We realized we had to teach Americans about George Washington ” said US historian David McCullough shaking his head. The shortage of historical knowledge in Americans is driving him to despair. “If you begin to have a society that has no knowledge of where it came from how it got to be and where it is or what was done… that's unacceptable ” he said.

　　So historians are now setting up ways for Americans to learn about the country's Founding Fathers. Mount Vernon George Washington's property which lies about 25 kilometers from the nation's capital is carrying out a US $ 85 million public awareness campaign.

　　There will be a centre to introduce George Washington to visitors.

　　A 15-minute film by Steven Spielberg will show the president's “action hero” side. Spielberg is an Oscar-winning Hollywood director.

　　The project also includes an education centre. And a museum will display the thousands of Washington's personal belongings Mount Vernon has collected over the years including his letters books and of course his famous wooden dentures(假牙). The four-year project is set to begin next year.

1．Spielberg directed a 15-minute film about George Washington's “action hero” side to ________.

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A．make people remember he is an understanding director

B．have Americans show a deeper love for their homeland

C．cause Americans to learn about the Founding Father-George Washington

D．encourage people to show respect for George Washington

2．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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A．George Washington have been looked down upon in the hearts of Americans

B．Benjamin Franklin cared more about inventions compared with poli-tics

C．young Americans spend too much time doing nothing at all in their spare time

D．Americans have little historical knowledge of its country especially the young