You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you today wasn’t made until the Qin Dynasty. They spent most of the important work on dictionaries. They spent nearly all their lives trying to words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary（牛津字典）. The 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（编者）of its new dictionary. Murray had never been to . At the age of fourteen, he left his villageschool in Scotland and taught himself while working in bank. he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job. Murray had a small house in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and 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 year, he was adding（增加）words for the letter “A”! He worked on the dictionary he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.
A．use B．write C．copy D．miss
A．easy B．boring C．early D．dangerous
A．spell B．invent C．collect D．make
A．way B．idea C．use D．prize
A．school B．cinema C．village D．collage
A．Later B．Longer before C．So far D．Ever since
A．sold B．built C．broken D．drawn
A．read B．wrote C．worked D．thought
A．already B．still C．usually D．always
A．if B．because C．until D．since
完形填空（每小题1分，共10分）将答案写在下面框内。
Hi, my name is Simon. I live _ __my family in a new neighbourhood. There __ _____lots of tall buildings in our community centre. Every day thousands of people come and visit it. Our community centre _ ____a big family.
My family member are social workers. My father is a computer __ ____. He often helps others check and fix their computers. My mother is a college teacher. She always tries to help students with __ ____homework. At the weekend my sister and I often go to _ _____the old people and do some shopping for them. Our neighbours are all kind __ _____helpful. They always say“Hello”to us when they meet us. When our bicycle are broken, they are ready to help us. Love House is our favorite __ ______. We go there when we need help _ ______all kind of problems.
We love our community centre. We think it is __ ____for us to have a community centre like this. Are you going to visit it? Welcome you.
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完形填空 阅读短文，从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A little boy invited his mother to the teacher-parent meeting of his school. This would be the first ___ that his classmates and teachers met his mother. She was a beautiful woman. there was a big scar（伤疤）on her right face. The boy never asked his mom why or how she got the scar. He didn’t want her to go to his school. However, his mother said she would go.
At the meeting, the boy was surprised to see other people having a good talk with his mother. But he felt for his mother’s face and sat in a chair his mother. Just then he heard a talk between his mother and his teacher.
“ did you get the scar on your face, Madam?” the teacher asked.
The mother said, “When my son was a baby, his room caught fire one day. Everyone was __ scared（惊呆的）to get into his room, but I did. When I was running to his bed, something fell down and I put over my son trying to help him. The next morning, when I woke up, I found I was in the hospital. The doctor told me someone had sent us there.” She touched her right face, “I have never felt sorry about what I did for my son. You see, he is strong, and now.”
Hearing that, the little boy __ __ and ran to his mother with tears in his eyes. He put his _ around his mother and stayed with her for all day.
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完形填空（共10小题, 计10分）
阅读下面一篇短文，理解大意，然后从各小题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，使短文连贯完整。
My cousin Sandy is English girl. Her name is White. She is 12. The girl is . In her room, her books and tape player in the bookcase. Her pencil box is on the . Her ruler is on the desk, too. And a set ____ keys are in her pencil box. A baseball is under the desk, it’s not Sandy’s. It’s her brother . Sandy has a computer. on the table. There is a photo on the wall. Two girls are in the photo. Do you know the two girls are? Well, they are Sandy’s good friends, Mary and Anna.
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完形填空(10’)
A woman saw three old men sitting outside the door. She said, “I don’t think I know you, but you must be very hungry. Please come in and have something ________.”
“We don’t go into a house _______ ”they replied.
“Why is that?” she asked.
One of the old men answered, “His name is Wealth(财富), this is Success, and I am Love.” Then he said, “Now go in and ________ with your family which one of us you want in your house.”
The woman went in and told her family what had happened, she said, “Let’s invite Wealth. We are so ________.” Her husband disagreed, “My dear, why don’t we invite Success? Don’t you want me to be a successful man? Then her daughter asked, “Would it be ________ to invite Love? Our life will then be filled with love!”
In the end the family decided to take the _______ advice. The woman went out and asked, “________ one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest.” Love got up and started walking to the house. The other two also got up and ________ him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success, “ I ________ invite Love. Why are you coming along? The two old men answered, “If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two would have to stay out, but since you have invited Love. ________ he goes, we go with him. Where there is Love, there is Wealth and Success.”
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完形填空
Mr. Smith lived in a village（村庄）. He had a few farms（农场） and about twenty people working for him. He often told them ____ hard and be honest. (诚实的).
One day he went to a farm and worked with the workers there. Soon it was time ____ lunch. He put ______ nice bread on the table and went out. A few minutes later，he came back again but he couldn’t find the bread. ‘Who ate __ _ on the table?’ he shouted.
Some of the workers answered, ‘We didn’t.’ The others said, ‘We saw nothing.’
‘Well,’ said Mr. Smith, ‘_____ are a lot of mice(老鼠) in the rooms, you know. So I put some poison（毒药） in the bread. ______ they eat, they must die. Then I can kill them.’
As soon as he finished, four workers began to cry. ‘Oh, dear!’
‘______?’ asked Mr. Smith. ‘We ate the bread when you were out. We are going to die.’ One of them cried.‘____,’ Mr. Smith said ____ a smile, ‘I only ____ you. Use your head.’
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