题目内容
【题目】 Confucius, a pioneer in the field of 【1】（教育）. He was born in the year 551 B. C. He was a great thinker who had many wise ideas about human nature and behavior. His main ideas are about kindness and good manners. He was also a famous philosopher whose wise sayings have i【2】 many people in d【3】 countries. For example，one of his famous sayings, "He who learns but does not think is lost; he who thinks but does not learn is in d【4】", tells us the 【5】（重要性）of learning and thinking.
【答案】
【1】education
【2】influenced
【3】different
【4】danger
【5】importance
【解析】
这篇短文主要介绍了伟大的教育家——孔子，介绍了他的一些教育理念。
【1】句意：孔子是教育领域的先驱。根据下文He was born in the year 551 B. C. He was a great thinker who had many wise ideas about human nature and behavior. His main ideas are about kindness and good manners.可知上文是说教育界的先驱。education的意思是“教育”，根据句意，故填education。
【2】句意：他也是一位著名的哲学家，他的智慧之言影响了许多不同国家的人。这里是完成时，其结构是have done的形式。influence的意思是“影响”，过去分词是influenced，根据句意，故填influenced
【3】句意：他也是一位著名的哲学家，他的智慧之言影响了许多不同国家的人。different+名词复数，表示不同的……。different countries不同的国家；根据句意，故填different。
【4】句意：学而不思则罔。这里是孔子的名言，be in danger表示处于危境。根据句意，故填danger。
【5】句意：告诉我们学习和思考的重要性。the importance of….表示……的重要性。根据句意，故填importance。
走进文言文系列答案【题目】 You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem, but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary. In those days people spelt words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn't made until the time of the Qing Dynasty.
The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. The idea 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 not been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one metre underground. In winter he had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and worked several hours before breakfast. Often he would work by candle light into the evening.
Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A! Then others went to work with Murray, and his two daughters were among them. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished it. It had more than 15,000 words in twelve books. And you thought your English dictionary was big!
Notes on James Murray's life | |
Murray's early life | Born in Scotland. He left school at 14 and became a bank worker, later a great teacher. |
Murray's work on OED | He became the editor of OED in the year 1879. His working 【1】 were bad: —he worked in a part-underground place in the garden behind his house —in winter it was terribly cold there —he often worked by candle light into the evening The time he spent on OED was much 【2】 than expected. Later others and his two daughters 【3】 him. |
Other information . | OED was finished in the year 1928. It had over 15,000【4】in twelve books. It is the largest dictionary in the world. Thanks to it, people can 【5】in the same way. For Murray, working on a dictionary wasn't only a task, but it was a wonderful journey. |