Question

短文填空，请用适当的词完成下列短文，每个空只能填写一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。

A dictionary can tell you a lot of things about a language.

First, a dictionary can tell you the
(1)　　　　 of a word. When you don’t know the spelling of a word, you can find
(2)　　　　 in a dictionary. Words are listed in alphabetical order (字母表的顺序). For example, in a dictionary the word “bag” comes (3)　　　　 “big” and the word “big” comes before “but”. The words are always in this order.

(4)　　　　, a dictionary can tell you pronunciation of a word.

Third, a dictionary can tell you the meanings of words. You can (5)　　　　 up words in a dictionary. Many words have more than (超过) (6)　　　　 meanings, and (7)　　　　 good dictionary gives all the meanings of the words in it. For example, in English the word “take” has more than 20 (8)　　　　 meanings.

These (9)　　　　 important things — spelling, pronunciation and meaning — are
(10)　　　　 you learn from a dictionary.

Answer 1

1. spelling  2. it  3. before    4. Second  5. look

6. one     7. a   8. different  9. three    10. what