[沖刺中考]英語閱讀與填空：14-Friday 詞典 195詞

14-Friday 詞典 195詞

題材： 詞典　 詞數(shù)： 195　 建議閱讀時間： 4分鐘

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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．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 James 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 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．

生詞

dynasty　n． 朝代：a vase dating back to the Ming Dynasty明朝時制作的花瓶

1．A．use B．write C．copy D．miss

2．A．easy B．boring C．early D．dangerous

3．A．spell B．invent C．collect D．make

4．A．way B．idea C．use D．prize

5．A．school B．cinema C．village D．college

6．A．Later B．Long before C．So far D．Ever since

7．A．sold B．built C．broken D．drawn

8．A．read B．wrote C．worked D．thought

9．A．a(chǎn)lready B．still C．usually D．a(chǎn)lways

10．A．if B．because C．until D．since

參考譯文

你可能認為英語詞典已經(jīng)使用很多個世紀了。實際上，你現(xiàn)在使用的英語詞典直到清代才出現(xiàn)。有三個人在詞典編撰的早期工作中起了重要作用，他們完成了其中的大部分工作。他們幾乎用盡畢生的精力努力收集詞匯。對他們來說，這是一次偉大的旅程。世界上最大的詞典是《牛津英語詞典》。編寫這部詞典的構(gòu)想源于1857年在英國舉行的一次重要會議。22年后，牛津大學邀請詹姆斯·默里成為這部新詞典的編撰者。

默里從未上過大學。14歲時，他離開蘇格蘭的鄉(xiāng)村學校，在一家銀行一邊工作一邊自學。后來，他成了一名杰出的教師。在牛津大學交給他這項任務(wù)后，他在自家花園蓋了間小房子，專門從事這項工作。每天早上，默里5點鐘起床，在小房子里工作幾小時后再吃早飯。他經(jīng)常工作到深夜。默里希望能用10年的時間完成這部新詞典。但5年后，他還在為字母A增加詞條。直到年事已高，他還在從事這部詞典的編撰工作。44年后，也就是1928年，其他編者才完成了這部詞典的編撰工作。

參考答案

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