高中英语外研版选修9学业分层测评11Word版含解析.docVIP

学业分层测评（十一） Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．William Shakespeare is a British poet and p________， who wrote many famous poems and plays. 2．We offer you a c________training in all aspects of the business. 3．She signed a three-year c________with a new record company named MBOX Music last Wednesday in Beijing. 4．She wrote down his telephone number on a s________of paper. 5．She believes it was the doctors f________that caused Peters death. 6．Which book do these________(引语) come from? 7．Gas lamps became________(过时的) when electric lighting was invented. 8．Boswell was the________(传记作者) of Dr.Johnson. 9．It takes many years of hard work to________(编纂) a good dictionary. 10．A good way to________(扩大) your vocabulary is to read a daily newspaper. 【答案】　1.prehensive　3.contract　4.slip　5.fault　6.quotations　7.obsolete　8．pile　10.enlarge Ⅱ.阅读理解 One of the greatest contributors to the first Oxford English Dictionary was also one of its most unusual.In 1879，Oxford University in England asked Prof.James Murray to serve as editor for what was to be the most ambitious dictionary in the history of the English language.It would include every English word possible and would give not only the definition but also the history of the word and quotations(引文)showing how it was used. This was a huge task，so Murray had to find volunteers from Britain，the United States，and the British colonies to search every newspaper，magazine，and book ever written in English.Hundreds of volunteers responded，including William Chester Minor.Dr.Minor was an American surgeon who had served in the Civil War and was now living in England.He gave his address as“Broadmoor，Crowthorne，Berkshire，”50 miles from Oxford. Minor joined the army of volunteers sending words and quotations to Murray. Over the next 17 years，he became one of the staffs most valued contributors. But he was also a mystery.In spite of many invitations，he would always decline to visit Oxford.So in 1897，Murray finally decided to travel to Crowthorne himself. When he arrived，he foun