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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 Oing 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 word, is Oxford English dictionary. The 4 for this dictionary carne 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.

(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．already

B．still

C．usually

D．always

(10) A．if

B．because

C．until

D．since

Answer 1

答案：A;C;C;B;D;A;B;C;B;C
解析：

(1) 解析：you use today是否定从句，用来修饰dictionary，意思为“你使用的字典”。 (2) 解析：early work早期工作。 (3) 解析：意思是为字典收集单词。 (4) 解析：编辑字典的想法。 (5) 解析：been to school意思为上过学。 (6) 解析：后来。 (7) 解析：have sth done请／用／雇人去做。 (8) 解析：并列句，表示工作。 (9) 解析：5年后，他“仍然”在编辑字母“A”。 (10) 解析：一直工作到老。