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2017雅思阅读真题part1 READING You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13,which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Johnson’s Dictionary For the century before Johnsons Dictionary was published in 1775,there had been concern about the state of the English Language.There was no standard way of speaking or writing and no agreement as to the best way of bringing some order to the chaos of English spelling.Dr Johnson provided the solution. There had,of course, been dictionaries in the past, the first of these being a little