14-Friday 词典 195词

题材： 词典　 词数： 195　 建议阅读时间： 4分钟

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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．

生词

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

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．already B．still C．usually D．always

10．A．if B．because C．until D．since

参考译文

你可能认为英语词典已经使用很多个世纪了。实际上，你现在使用的英语词典直到清代才出现。有三个人在词典编撰的早期工作中起了重要作用，他们完成了其中的大部分工作。他们几乎用尽毕生的精力努力收集词汇。对他们来说，这是一次伟大的旅程。世界上最大的词典是《牛津英语词典》。编写这部词典的构想源于1857年在英国举行的一次重要会议。22年后，牛津大学邀请詹姆斯·默里成为这部新词典的编撰者。

默里从未上过大学。14岁时，他离开苏格兰的乡村学校，在一家银行一边工作一边自学。后来，他成了一名杰出的教师。在牛津大学交给他这项任务后，他在自家花园盖了间小房子，专门从事这项工作。每天早上，默里5点钟起床，在小房子里工作几小时后再吃早饭。他经常工作到深夜。默里希望能用10年的时间完成这部新词典。但5年后，他还在为字母A增加词条。直到年事已高，他还在从事这部词典的编撰工作。44年后，也就是1928年，其他编者才完成了这部词典的编撰工作。

参考答案

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