[填空题]According to "How Dictionaries Am Made" , the writer of a dictionary is （） , not a lawgiver.

[填空题]Let us see how dictionaries are made and how editors arrive at definitions. The task of writing a dictionary begins with the reading of vast amounts of the (47) of the period or the subject that the dictionary is to cover. As editors read, they copy on cards every interesting or rare word, every unusual or (48) occurrence of a common word, a large number of common words in their ordinary uses, and also the sentences in which each of these words appears, thus:
pail
The daily pails bring home increase of milk.
Keats, Endymion
The (49) of each word is collected, along with the word itself. For a really big job of dictionary writing, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, millions of such cards are collected, and the task of editing (50) decades. As the cards are collected, they are alphabetized and (51) When

[单项选择]How am I going to cope with Jane（　）.
A. I will write Jane a note of apology.
B. I will apologize when Jane was less angry.
C. I will let someone else explain to Jane.

[单项选择]How frequently is this report being made
A. Every hour
B. Twice a day
C. Once a day
D. Once a week

[简答题]
Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She was a property developer, and she also owned and operated three McDonald’s franchises (经销特许权) in lllinois, but as a divorced mother of three boys, she longed for a business that would provide for her children and let her spend more time with them.
Her amazing moment struck, strangely enough, after she was appointed in 1992 to be on the McDonald’s bun (小圆面包) committee. "The other franchisees, all men, thought that was funny because of the word bun" she recalls. "But the joke was on them: They didn’t know the company would be picking me up in a jet to see bakeries around the world. Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!"
The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined

[单项选择]
Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She was a property developer, and she also owned and operated three McDonald’s franchises (经销特许权) in lllinois, but as a divorced mother of three boys, she longed for a business that would provide for her children and let her spend more time with them.
Her amazing moment struck, strangely enough, after she was appointed in 1992 to be on the McDonald’s bun (小圆面包) committee. "The other franchisees, all men, thought that was funny because of the word bun" she recalls. "But the joke was on them: They didn’t know the company would be picking me up in a jet to see bakeries around the world. Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!"
The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined to wi
A. 11
B. 32
C. 40
D. 25