问题详情：
综合填空
阅读下面的短文，根据每个空格中所给的词首字母填入适当的词，使短文意思完整。
You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you u （1）today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the early work on dictionaries. They s （2）nearly all their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a w （3）journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary. The i （4）for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
Murray had never been to school. At the age of fourteen, he left his village in Scotland and taught h （5）while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house b （6）in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and worked in the small house s （7）hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray h （8）to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was s （9）adding words for the letter “A”! He worked on the dictionary u （10）he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.
【回答】
1. use 2. spent 3. wonderful 4. idea 5. himself
6. built 7. several 8. hoped 9. still 10. until
知识点：单词拼写
题型：阅读填空