Dictionaries are (0) among the most

Dictionaries are (0) among the most important tools of self-education. (13) ..................... Samuel Johnson wrote his infl uential English dictionary in the eighteenth century, the work kept him busy for seven years. At the end of that period he (14) .................. written the meanings of over forty thousand words. Most modern dictionaries require a (15) .................... deal less time and effort to write because writers often use earlier dictionaries (16) .................. a source of reference. Nowadays, most dictionaries are put together by teams of writers, or lexicographers. Sometimes they need to work together in meetings; at other times they work independently of (17) ...................... other, on different parts of the dictionary. (18) ....................... one time, the starting point for deciding on which words to include used to be the lexicographer’s own knowledge. These days, teams (19) ......................... use of a large collections of examples of (20) ................................ only writing but also everyday speech, which is known as a corpus. Teams also refer (21) ................... books and articles about language as (22) .......................... as asking experts in particular subjects about the more specialised words. Finally, ordinary people are asked to say what they think about the (23) ...................... the words are defi ned and (24) ....................... they fi nd the examples provided helpful or not.
THE MUSTARD SHOP
Norwich, a city in the east of England, is a (0) ...C... shopping centre for thousands of people. In
particular, visitors love to (1) .......... the small, unusual shops hidden away in Norwich’s narrow
streets. The Mustards Shop is usually high on everybody’s (2) ......... of interesting shops to see.
The (3) ......... between mustard, a type of sauce, and Norwich (4) ......... back to the nineteenth
century. Jeremiah Colman began to make mustard in 1814 in a nearby village. The yellow
fi elds, full of mustard fl owers whose seeds were required for Colman’s factory, soon changed
the appearance of the local (5) ......... . The company (6) ......... rapidly and in 1854 it moved
to a suburb on the (7) ......... of Norwich. By this time, Colman’s mustard was famous in many
countries. The company is still in (8) ......... and many people continue to enjoy eating mustard
with meat, cheese and other food.
In 1973, the company opened The Mustard Shop. It is a careful reproduction of a typical mustard
shop of a hundred years ago and sells a wide (9) ......... of mustards. Upstairs there is a small
museum where visitors can (10) ......... a collection of old Colman’s posters and an exhibition
(11) ......... the history of mustard. It is a shop not to be (12) ......... when visiting Norwich