The word encyclopedia began as a Greek word and means
"instruction in the whole circle." It was the first used in __1__English by sir Thomas Eloyt in 1538. Encyclopedias today are usually arranged in alphabetical order, but in early times they were arranged in any way the author liked. One writer in the Middle Ages began with a discussion of God and angels and end with descriptions of scents and colors and __2__ a list of 36 different kinds of eggs. The first alphabetically arranged encyclopedia was published in 1704 by an English clergyman named after John Harris. __3__ The oldest encyclopedia in reality was written during the __4__ first century A.D. by Plainy, a Roman. Its 37 volumes list over 20 thousand items. It is valued highly for hundreds __5__of years. Up to 1536 43 editions had been largest encyclopedia, the third Chinese encyclopedia containing over 5020 volumes and was compiled during the __6__eighteenth century. Between 1751 and 1765 the French Encyclopedia appeared. This collecton was usual because __7__contemporary famous men, imcluded Voltarie, Rousseau, and __8__Diderot, wrote aticles for Encyclopedia Britannica is probably the best known work for English-speaking people. It first appeared in Scotland __9__in 1771. In 1961 the world Book Company published a braille edition of its encyclopedia for blind readers. __10__
答案及解析:
1. 去掉first前面的
2. end—ended
ended與began一同做謂語
3. 去掉named後面的after
4. reality—existence
此處表示“現存的”
5. is—was
6. containing—contains
7. ususl—unusual
8. included—including
9. people—peoples
表示“民族”
10. its之後加own
強調該百科全書屬於the world book company特有
