初三英语完形填空练习(一)
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(清朝). 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 1875.Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor(编者) 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 of five o’clock and 8 in the small house several hours before the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was 9 adding(增加) 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. collage
( )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





Key: 1-----5 ACCBD 6-----10 ABCBC



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