Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank.

Question

 

 

DICTIONARIES

Dictionaries are (0) AMONG the most important tools of self-education. (1)____________Samuel Johnson wrote his influential English dictionary in the eighteenth century, the work kept him busy for seven years. At the end of that period he (2) _____________written the meanings of over forty thousand words. Most modern dictionaries require a (3)____________ deal less time and effort to write because writers often use earlier dictionaries  as a source of reference.

Nowadays, most dictionaries are put together by teams of writers, or lexicographers. Sometimes they need to work together in meetings; at other times they work independently of (4)______________other, on different parts of the dictionary.

(5) _________one time, the starting point for deciding on which words to include used to be the lexicographer’s own knowledge. These days, teams (6) ___________use of a large collection of examples of (7)____________only writing but also every day speech, which is known as a corpus. Teams also refer (8) __________books and articles about language as (9) _________ as asking experts in particular subjects about the more specialized words. Finally, ordinary people are asked to say what they think about the  way the words are defined and (10) _________they find the examples provided helpful or not.

 

Answer 1

1. When

2. had

3. good

4. each

5. At

6. make

7. not

8. to

9. well

10. if