题目内容
The dictionary is often used merely to determine the correct spelling of words, or to find out the accepted pronunciation. But such use is perhaps not the most important from an intellectual point of view. Dictionaries may, however, have social importance. It is often a matter of some concern to the person using the dictionary that he should not suggest to others, by misspelling a word in a letter, or mispronouncing it in conversation, that he is not educated.
Yet, despite familiarity with the dictionary, the average person is likely to have many wrong ideas about it, and no real concept of how to use it profitably, or interpret it correctly. For example, it is often believed that the mere presence of a word in a dictionary is evidence that it is acceptable in good writing. Though most dictionaries have a system of marking words as obsolete （废弃的）, or in use only as slang（俚语）, many people, more especially if their use of a particular word has been challenged, are likely to conclude, if they find it in a dictionary, that it is accepted as being used by writers of established reputation. This would certainly have been true of dictionaries a hundred years ago. For a long time after they were first firmly established in the eighteenth century, their aim was to include only what was used by the best writers, and all else was suppressed, and the compiler frequently claimed that his dictionary contained no “low” words. Apparently this aspect of the dictionary achieved such importance in the mind of the aver age person that most people today are unaware of the great change which has taken place in the compilation of present-day dictionaries.
(1) Dictionaries may have social importance in that ________.
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A．they are often a matter of some concern to a person
B．their users do not want others to know the dictionaries
C．misspellings often appear in letters
D．misspellings would mean that the person is not educated
(2) One of the wrong ideas the average person has about the dictionary is that ________.
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A．no one is actually familiar with dictionaries
B．words in a dictionary are taken from good writings
C．he has little idea of how to use it profitably
D．people know little about how dictionaries interpret words
(3) From an intellectual point of view, ________.
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A．the dictionary should not be used to determine correct spelling
B．to determine correct spelling is not the most important use of a dictionary
C．dictionaries have social importance
D．the accepted pronunciation is not as important as the correct spelling
(4) We can infer from this passage that present day dictionaries ________.
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解析：
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(1) B 、C都是明显不正确的。A所说的过于泛泛，从文中第一段结尾：“…that he is not educated”可得出D是正确的。(2) 此题采用排除法。A过于绝对化，是不正确的。C、D不符合原文。文中第二段第二句“…that it is acceptable in good writing.”可知B是正确的。(3) 见文中第一段第二句“But such use is perhaps not the most important from an intellectual point of view.”可知B正确。A、C明显错误，C显得过于泛泛，不如B切中文义。(4) 文中第二段讲过去的字典不包含“low”words，但现在字典与以前相比有很大变化，因此我们可以推断出现在字典包含“low”words，即答案为C。 |
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