五、短文填空 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容及首字母提示補全空格內(nèi)單詞

You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many , many centuries . In fact , an English dictionary you u1. today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty(清朝) . Three men did most of the important e2. work on dictionaries . They spent nearly all their lives trying to c3. words for their dictionaries . For them , it was a wonderful journey . The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English dictionary . The i4. for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857 . Twenty-two years later , Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary .

Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen , he l5. his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank . L6. he became a great teacher . After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house b7. in his garden to do the work . Every morning , Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and w8. in the small house several hours before breakfast . Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years , he was s9. adding words for the letter “A” ! He worked on the dictionary u10. he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

1.use 2.early 3.collect 4.idea 5.left 6.Later 7.built 8.worked 9.still 10.until 【解析】本文講述了默里如何編纂第一本英語詞典的。 1.use 句意:事實上,你今天使用的英語詞典知道清朝才被制作。根據(jù)You may think that Englis...
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