七、综合填空(本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺单词,使短文意思完整。每空限填一词。
You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, the English dictionary you use today wasn't made until the Qing Dynasty. The l 56 dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary. It has the most words. The i 57 for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. About twenty-two years later, Oxford University a 58 James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
James Murray had n 59 been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and t 60 himself while working in a bank. Later, he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the j 61, every morning, he got o 62 of bed very early and worked in a small house for several hours before breakfast. Often, he would work into the night. At first he h 63 to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter "A"! He worked on the dictionary until he was very o 64. Forty-four years l 65, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64. 65.

56. largest 57. idea 58. asked 59. never 60. taught
61. job 62. out 63. hoped 64. old 65. later