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Here even the best guide-book fails us. One can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the 9 appearance. It may not describe the original (最初的) design of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it 10 look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine 11 the town was first planned and built. Then one can learn more about in what direction the town 12 to develop.
What is the point of studying towns in this way? For me, it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A 13 visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive 14 just reading about it in a guide-book.
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The History of the English Dictionary In 1746, Samuel Johnson began to work on his most famous book, the Dictionary of the English Language. It took him nine years to complete and in that time, he wrote meanings for more than 40,000 words. It was the first English dictionary to include so many words. Johnson was born in Staffordshire, Britain in 1709. His father was a bookseller and the family was not very rich. Johnson was a very clever student and he went to Oxford University in 1728. After Oxford, he became a school teacher but he was not happy about his job. In 1735, he married a woman named Elizabeth Porter. He was twenty-five years old and she was forty-six. A few years after that, Johnson got a job to write the English dictionary. He worked in a house in London and he had six men to help him. To write the dictionary, Johnson looked for words used by the important English writers in those days. He underlined the sentences where the words were used and wrote them in his notebooks. Then he gave his notebooks to his workers and they wrote the words and the sentences out neatly. After that, they put the words in order according to the English alphabet. Once that was done, Johnson would write the meanings for the words. When it was completed, the Dictionary of the English Language became famous and it was used by many people in that time. Johnson was a happy man because of that, but his wife died before the dictionary was completed and she never got to share her husband"s happiness. Johnson died in London in 1784. In his lifetime, he not only wrote the Dictionary of the English Language but he also wrote many poems and famous articles. | ||||||
1. When Johnson started to work on the Dictionary of the English Language he was ____ | ||||||
A. poor B. thirty-seven years old C. a school teacher D. a clever student | ||||||
2. Elizabeth Porter ______. | ||||||
A. was older than Johnson by twenty-one years B. helped Johnson to get the dictionary writing job C. was a sick woman D. died before the dictionary was completed because she was too old | ||||||
3. The Dictionary of the English Language was the first ______. | ||||||
A. dictionary to include so many words B. dictionary in the world C. dictionary that was written in England D. English dictionary to have 40,000 words | ||||||
4. It took ______ people ______ years to complete the Dictionary of the English Language. | ||||||
A. eight; nine B. six; nine C. six; seven D. seven; nine | ||||||
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London"s River Thames has twenty-seven bridges. But Tower Bridge, the first bridge over the Thames as you travel to London from the sea,is the most famous of them all. What makes Tower Bridge so exciting? Why do visitors come from all over the world to see it? The thing that is surprising about Tower Bridge is that it is open in the middle. It does this to let the big ships through to the Pool of London.lf you are lucky enough to see the bridge with its two opening arms high in the air,you will never forget it. On its north side stands the Tower of London it self.Although they look the same age,the Tower is almost a thousand years old,and Tower bridge is only about one hundred, It was built in the 1890s. By1850, everyone agreed that a bridge across the Thames near the Tower was most necessary. But the designers argued about the new bridge for another thirty years.This took so long because they had two big problems. | ||||||
l. Tower Bridge is ______. A. about one thousand years old B. the oldest and the most famous bridge in London C. the first one you can see when you go from the sea to London D. the one that took workers about 30 years to build 2. The Tower of London is ______. A. across from the Thames B. on the north of Tower Bridge C. in the middle of Tower Bridge D. much younger than Tower Bridge 3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. You can see the bridge with its two opening arms high in the air at anytime. B. By 1850 everybody thought it most necessary to have a bridge built across the Thames near the Tower. C. It took the designers thirty years to argue about the bridge before it was built. D. It was no easy thing to build a bridge near the Tower. 4. Why is the bridge open in the middle? A. To make it special. B. To attract (吸引) more people from the world to see it. C. To let the big ship through to the Pool of London. D. BeCduse it is so long that has to be divided into two parts. 5. How long was the Tower Bridge built? A. A thousand years. B. A hundred years. C. Five thousand years. D. Five hundred years. | ||||||
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