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You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many fact,an English dictionary you___1___today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty(清朝）e 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 largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English 4___ for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in ty -two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary,

Murray had never been to___5___ the age of fourteen, He left his village school in Scotland  and taught himself while working in a bank,____6__he became a great r Oxford give him the job, Murray had a small house ___7__in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Mary got out of bed at five o'clock and___8___ in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the ay hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was___9____ adding 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. write           B. use         C. copy              D. miss

2.A early            B. boring      C. easy               icult

3.A spell               B. collect      C. invent             D. make

             B. use          C. idea                D. prize

5.A. school      B. cinema      age               D. college

6.A. ever since     e then  far              D. later

t              B. sold           C. broken            D. drawn

8.A. read              B. wrote               C. worked           D. thought

ady           B. still          lly            D. always

10.A. if                B. because    C. until                D. unless

【回答】

1B 2A 3B 4C 5D 6D 7A 8C 9B 10C

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