Ⅰ.阅读P81课文内容，完成课文缩写
Dictionaries have become much more 1.______since those days.In March 2000 the Oxford English Dictionary Online became 2.________on the World Wide Web.The dictionary 3.________60 million words of text, and 4.________nearly 750,000 terms used in English over the past thousand years.The 5.________words are 6.________by more than 2.4 million quotations, in a 7.________developed for easy accessibility.The OED Online 8.________the initial findings of a 20year project to revise the Oxford English Dictionary.Of course computer technology has been a great help to this work.While revising the OED, editors now have 9.________to an 10.________body of electronic data in addition to their more traditional resources.
【答案】 1.sophisticated 2.available 3.is made up of 4.describes 5.defined 6.illustrated 7．format 8.represents 9.access 10.enormous
Ⅱ.阅读P83课文内容，判断正(T)误(F)
1．Roget's Thesaurus was written by the scientist and doctor Peter Roget.
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2．Roget devised a system of thinking about the world which contained six classes of meanings. ( )
3．An essential part of Roget's Thesaurus is the new word addition.
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4．No newer dictionaries of synonyms are quicker and easier to use than Roget's Thesaurus. ( )
【答案】 1.T 2.T 3.F 4.F
