Question

任務型閱讀(共10分，每小題1分)

  閱讀下面的短文，根據(jù)文中信息完成文后表格。(每空一詞) 

   Samuel Johnson was one of the 18th century 9s most famous writers,best known for his The Dictionary of the English Language. The dictionary wasn?t the first English dictionary,but in many ways it was the most important dictionary in history.

   In June 1746,a group of London booksellers contracted (簽約) Johnson to write a dictionary. It would list all the words in the English language in alphabetical order and give a meaning for each.

   Johnson was a man of great learning. He searched books for words. Johnson also searched for sentences that showed how people used the words. He worked more than eight years.

   In 1755 Johnson finished writing The Dictionary of the English Language. It had two volumes and 41 ,000 words. It was a huge success. This set of books became part of households and libraries all over England.

Title: The most   improtant(81)
Idea	It   would include all the English words and their(82) .
Who(83) it	Samuel   Johnson—one of the most famous (84) in the 18th centuary
What he did	He searched(85) for words and sentences   to find out how people (86) them.
How long	It   took over(87) years.
Result	•  It was finished in(88)   with two volumes and(89) thousand words. •   It was (90) and   became popular all over England.

Answer 1

81. dictionary   82. meanings   83. wrote   84. writers   85. books   86. used   87. eight   88. 1755

89. forty-one   90. successful