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You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact an English dictionary
you
1 today wasn't made until the Qing Dynasty (清朝). Three men did most of the important
2 work on
dictionaries. They spent nearly all their lives trying to
3 words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a
wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary. The
4 for this dictionary
came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
Murray had never been to
5 . At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself
while working in a bank.
6 he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small
house
7 in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and
8 in the
small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new
dictionary in the years. But after five years, he was
9 adding (增加) words for the letter "A"! He worked on the
dictionary
10 he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.
( ) 1. A. use
( ) 2. A. easy
( ) 3. A. spell
( ) 4. A. way
( ) 5. A. school
( ) 6. A. Later
( ) 7. A. sold
( ) 8. A. read
( ) 9. A. already
( ) 10. A. if |
B. write
B. boring
B. invent
B. idea
B. cinema
B. before
B. built
B. wrote
B. still
B. because |
C. copy
C. early
C. collect
C. use
C. village
C. So far
C. broken
C. worked
C. usually
C. until |
D. miss
D. dangerous
D. make
D. prize
D. college
D. Ever since
D. drawn
D. thought
D. always
D. since |