The storm of abuse in the popular press that greeted the appearance of Webster's Third New International Dictionary is a curious phenomenon. 1       The New York Times,in a special editorial,felt that the work would "accelerate the deterioration" of the language and seriously accused the editors of betraying a public trust. The Journal of the American Bar Association saw the publication as "a serious blow to the cause of good English".

2       Just what's a dictionary for? What does the common reader go to a dictionary to find?

The demands are simple. 3       He wants to know what is current and respectable. But he wants―and has a right to―the truth,the full truth. And the full truth about any language is that there are many areas in which certainty is impossible and simplification is misleading.

Even in so settled a matter as spelling,a dictionary cannot always be absolute. 4       And so are traveled and travelled,plow and plough,catalog and catalogue,and scores of other variants. The reader may want a single certainty. He may demand that the dictionary "settle" the matter. 5       And the fact here is that there are many words in our language which may be spelled,with equal correctness,in either of two ways.

But one thing is certain：anyone who seriously announces in the year 1962 that he will be guided in matters of English usage by a dictionary published in 1934 is talking ignorant and pretentious nonsense.

   A. Such evaluation requires us to examine basic principles.

   B. But this is not the concern of the dictionary's; it must record the facts.

   C. Never has a scholarly work of this importance been attacked with such extreme anger and contempt.

   D. As a reader,he wants to know what an author intended to convey.

   E. The common reader turns to a dictionary for information about the spelling,pronunciation,meaning,and proper use of words.

   F. Theater is correct,but so is theatre.

   G. The new dictionary has many faults.

1.                  2.                  3.         4.          5.      

本文介紹了韋氏辭典第三版出版后引發(fā)的一系列爭議，以及作者對(duì)于辭典編寫和語言發(fā)展的一些看法。

1. c本段介紹了韋氏辭典第三版出版后引發(fā)的一系列爭議，本空為概括句，后面為細(xì)節(jié)分述，因此選C；。

2. A 本空為承上啟下句，因此選A.

3. E 本段主要講述該辭典的作用，因此選E。

4. F 根據(jù)前句"Even in so settled a matter as spelling,a dictionary cannot always be absolute." 可知，后面是對(duì)英語拼寫的舉例，因此選F。

5. B 才艮據(jù)后句"And the fact here is that there are many words in our language which may be spelled,with equal correctness,in either of two ways."可知，本空應(yīng)該為轉(zhuǎn)折句，且上下文關(guān)鍵詞fact是很好的提示，因此選B.

題目來源：高考英語組合訓(xùn)練（閱讀七選五+短文填詞+短文改錯(cuò)） > 組合訓(xùn)練8

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